== East India Film Company ==

Est: 1932 in Calcutta. One of the first sound
studios in Bengal, set up with RCA-Photophone
equipment and Mitchell cameras. Owned by
B.L. Khemka. Bengali productions include
films by Tulsi Lahiri (Jamuna Puliney, 1933),
Naresh Mitra’s Sabitri (1933), Dhiren
Ganguly (Bidrohi, 1935) and Debaki Bose
(Sonar Sansar, 1936). Most prominent inhouse
director was Hindi film-maker A.R.
Kardar (1933-6). The studio branched out into
Tamil (e.g. K. Subramanyam’s Bhakta
Kuchela, 1936) and Telugu films (e.g.
Pullaiah’s Savithri, 1933). Until the mid-40s it
was the only fully equipped sound studio
available to Tamil film-makers and was a major
reason for numerous Bengali film technicians,
particularly cameramen (best known: Jiten
Bannerjee) working in the South, a tradition
later continued by Gemini Studios.

For Ekalavya see Robi Ghosh

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