FILM DIRECTOR

Ardeshir Irani

1886 - 1969

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Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema. He is considered one of the greatest personalities in recent Indian Cinema. He was the director of India's first sound film Alam Ara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ardeshir Irani has received more than 236,469 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ardeshir Irani is the 1,184th most popular film director (up from 1,210th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from India (down from 625th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ardeshir Irani ranks 1,184 out of 2,041. Before him are Jon Avnet, Lajos Koltai, Nelly Kaplan, Břetislav Pojar, Hany Abu-Assad, and Benny Chan. After him are Jaume Collet-Serra, Lee Tamahori, Niels Arden Oplev, Trey Parker, Robert Kramer, and Alexander Mitta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Ardeshir Irani ranks 250. Before him are Phyllis Johnson, Hector Goetinck, Arno Bieberstein, Paul Radmilovic, Ricardo Güiraldes, and Urho Castrén. After him are Robert Andersson, Jalmari Eskola, Arthur Amundsen, Hugo Jahnke, Marcel Riesz, and John Eke. Among people deceased in 1969, Ardeshir Irani ranks 188. Before him are Oswald Holmberg, Julius Saaristo, Giuseppe Viani, Tom Naudé, Moisés Solana, and Károly Fogl. After him are Ramdas Gandhi, Hans Deppe, Marcel Riesz, Vernon Duke, Skip James, and Corneliu Robe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ardeshir Irani ranks 678 out of 1,861. Before him are Nirmala Joshi (1934), Zeenat Aman (1951), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), Joseph Coutts (1945), and Ali Akbar Khan (1922). After him are Neerja Bhanot (1963), Kareena Kapoor (1980), Manilal Gandhi (1892), Spike Milligan (1918), Ashok Kumar (1911), and Begum Akhtar (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Ardeshir Irani ranks 9. Before him are M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), and Guru Dutt (1925). After him are Shyam Benegal (1934), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), and V. Shantaram (1901).

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