Nanubhai Vakil

Nanubhai Vakil was a Hindi and Gujarati film director. He was the first to make a Gujarati talkie film with a biopic on the saint Narsinh Mehta in 1932. Narsinh Mehta's (1932) star cast included the actress Mehtab.

Career
Vakil frequently collaborated with Zubeida and Patience Cooper. The twelve-year-old Suraiya, who had done minor roles as a child artist in films like Usne Kya Socha (1937) was cast as the young Mumtaz in Taj Mahal (1941) by Vakil. Vakil later remade several of the silent films "based on Parsi theatre plays".  W. M. Khan, who became famous as the first person to sing in an Indian film, "De De Allah Ke Naam Pe Pyare" in Alam Ara (1931) was made to reprise that song and role when he was seventy-one years old by Nanubhai Vakil. The film was Vakil's version of Alam Ara (1973), produced by Maffatlal Shah, with music by Iqbal Qureshi.

Filmography

As a director

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Category:Gujarati-language film directors
Category:Film directors from Gujarat
Category:Indian male screenwriters
Category:1904 births
Category:1980 deaths
Category:Hindi-language film directors
Category:People from Valsad district
Category:Hindi film producers
Category:20th-century Indian film directors
Category:Indian silent film directors