Shalom Bollywood: India's forgotten history of Jews who made it big in early cinema
Though they were outsiders, Jewish performers found it easy to blend in in Bombay cinema.
by Rajesh Devraj
Nov 02, 2017
1 minute
It was a Jewish telephone operator, Ruby Myers, who rose to become the first superstar of Indian silent cinema. Renamed Sulochana, she was presented as a glamorous icon on Hollywood lines, billed above the title like Garbo and Dietrich.
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