First Scandal Of Bollywood! Intriguing True Story That Inspired Vikramaditya Motwane¡¯s Jubilee
Jubilee, a web series by Vikramaditya Motwane has received a lot of appreciation from viewers who have praised its plot, set design, storytelling, and acting.
Aparshakti Khurana, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hydari, Siddhanth Gupta, and Wamiqa Gabbi are the stars of the programme.
The programme centres on renowned filmmaker Srikant Roy (Prosenjit Chatterjee) of Roy Talkies, his celebrity wife Sumitra Kumari (Aditi Rao Hydari), her liaison with up-and-coming performer Jamshed Khan (Nandish Sandhu), and Roy's treatment of Sumitra.?
The producer gives lab technician Binod Das (Aparshakti Khurana) the assignment to correct everything by Friday so that Khan can make his much-anticipated film debut as Madan Kumar.
The plot of the show seemed uncannily similar to what is frequently hailed as the first scandal in Hindi cinema.
Those who are familiar with the history of Hindi cinema would have already recognised how Himanshu Rai, a real-life star producer, is modelled by Srikant Roy, and Roy Talkies is essentially Bombay Talkies, India's first film company.
Devika Rani, Himanshu Rai's wife and a star of the 1930s and 1940s, is the inspiration for Srikant's famous wife Sumitra Kumari.
According to reports, Himanshu Rai was producing Jawani Ki Hawa in 1935, a movie with a love story similar to that of Sumitra and Jamshed from the television series.
He cast his famous wife as the female protagonist and debuted Najmul Hassan as an actress for the movie.
Despite the fact that their first film, Jeevan Naiya, was a big success, Rani and Hassan eloped while they were making it. Sasadhar Mukherjee, a senior official at his studio and the grandfather of Kajol, assisted a grieving Himanshu in coping with the professional and emotional blow by finding Devika and Najmul at Calcutta's Grand Hotel and persuading the actress to end the romance and return to her husband.
Himanshu Rai fired Najmul Hassan while Devika Rani was away and chose to start the movie Jeevan Naiya over again. And he was currently seeking another lead actor to take Hassan's position.
Once more stepping in, Sasadhar Mukherjee suggested Kumudlal Ganguly, his brother-in-law, who was employed as a lab technician at Bombay Talkies.
Franz Osten, a German artist, opposed the release of Kumudlal, however Himanshu Rai eventually agreed. He believed Kumudlal was too commonplace. But he acquiesced at Rai's persuasion.
However, Sasadhar persuaded his brother-in-law even though Kumudlal himself wasn't too keen about looking into the camera.
Now that Kumudlal had everything save a stage name, they decided on "Ashok Kumar". He made his acting debut in the film Jeevan Naiya alongside Devika Rani. The following year, they released Achhut Kanya, which was a huge hit and catapulted Kumar to stardom.
As opposed to this, Najmul Hassan, the original Jeevan Naiya hero, went back to Calcutta and joined BN Sircar's New Theatres, which also had actors like Prithviraj Kapoor and KL Saigal.
He mainly took the back seat, though, and after the split, he changed his base to Pakistan. There, he continued to work in films, but he never achieved the acclaim and notoriety that his successor Ashok Kumar did.
?Returning to Jubilee, it appears that Sasadhar Mukherjee and Kumudlal Ganguly, better known as Ashok Kumar, inspired Aparshakti's character. Himanshu Rai is portrayed by Srikant Roy, Devika Rani by Sumitra Kumari, and Najmul Hassan by Jamshed Khan.
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