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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Dalsukh M. Pancholi <br />
| birth_date = 1906 <br />
| birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[British India]] <br />
| death_date = 1959 (age 53) <br />
| death_place = [[Bombay]], [[India]]<br />
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'''Dalsukh M. Pancholi''' (1906–1959) was an Indian film-maker, producer and distributor who is remembered for making the first Punjabi film.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} Considered to be a film pioneer, Pancholi's Empire Talkie Distributors based in [[Lahore]] were the biggest importer of American films in northern and western India.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} Pancholi's Pancholi Art Pics was also the largest film studio in Lahore at the time of the [[Partition of India]].{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
He hailed from the village Halvad in Saurashtra, Gujarat.<br />
His nephew [[Ravindra Dave]] was also film director and producer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/reel/920201/tribute-director-ravindra-dave-who-was-ravinbhai-in-hindi-films-and-bapa-for-gujarati-cinema|title=Tribute: Director Ravindra Dave, who was 'Ravinbhai' in Hindi films and 'Bapa' for Gujarati cinema|last=Dave|first=Hiren B.|date=2019-04-16|website=Scroll.in|access-date=2019-05-10}}</ref> His younger brother Rajan's son [[Aditya Pancholi]] is also an actor.<br />
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Among Lahore's filmmakers, Dalsukh Pancholi, educated in New York, introduced Noor Jehan as a child star in Gul Bakawali — was forced to move to Bombay in 1947 due to the partition, leaving his studio to continue for another two years. The last film it produced was somewhat ironically titled Ghalat Fehmi.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pracha |first1=Maheen |title=The story of Pakistan's talkies |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1294627 |agency=DAWN |publisher=DAWN}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Ali |last2=Ahmad |first2=Ali Nobil |title=Cinema and society : film and social change in Pakistan |year=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Karachi |isbn=978-0199402229}}</ref><br />
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== Filmography ==<br />
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* [[Poonji]] (1943) - Producer<ref name=":0" /><br />
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* {{cite web|title=Dalsukh M. Pancholi (1906-59) |url=https://cinemaofindia.org/wiki/Dalsukh%20M.%20Pancholi |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130414113006/https://cinemaofindia.org/wiki/Dalsukh%20M.%20Pancholi |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-14 |publisher=Encyclopedia of Indian cinema }}<br />
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