Madan Theatre
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The Madan Theatre Company has its roots in 1902 when Jamshedji Framji Madan, a wine merchant who came to Calcutta from Bombay as a child, started his entertainment business by acquiring two theatre companies in Calcutta and then beginning film exhibitions . The first of these were of imported cinemas, which were screened in tent shows in the maidan in the vicinity of the Esplanade. J F Madan had earlier introduced Parsi theatre to Calcutta, at the Corinthian Theatre, which he had acquired. Soon, the Corinthian had become a well-known place of popular entertainment. Madan also created the Elphinstone Bioscope Company, producing a number of short films. In 1910 Madan theatre was constructed as the first permanent show house in Calcutta. In 1919 Madan produced the first Bengali feature film Billwamangal. After the end of the First World War the company witnessed rapid growth and became a joint stock company in 1919.
