Cinema Girl (1930)

This film presented a fictionalized biography of its maker One of the major characters is a producer modeled on Kohinoors proprietor DN Sampat including a reference to the real life occasion when the studio on the verge of bankruptcy survived only because its employees donated money and gold ornaments to keep it afloat Another character referred to a financier at the Imperial Studio The plot also touched on the way a producer can curtail the freedom of a director