Bambai Ki Billi (1927)

Dir: Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani. Studio: Imperial Films Company. IMDB entry

(“The Wildcat of Bombay”)

Bambai Ki Billi (1936)

Dir: Nandlal Jaswantlal. Studio: Imperial Films Company. IMDB entry

The master criminal known as the Wildcat is pursued by Dinshaw Bilimoria as police Inspector Suresh. The glamourous Sulochana (Ruby Myers) played 8 roles in this crime thriller, many of them men: a gardener, a policeman, a Hyderabadi gentleman, a street urchin. a European blonde, an old banana-seller and an expert pickpocket who gives her money to charity. (According to Sulochana in an interview in 1951). It was a remake of her 1927 silent hit, also believed lost.

Bambai ki Billi brochure (PDF 31.2 MB)

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