Sulochana (Pune, Maharashtra, 1907 - Mumbai, 1983, real name Ruby Myers) was an Indian silent film star of Jewish ancestry, although it is unclear whether she descended from an Ashkenazi family, Bene Israeli family, or both.

Film Career

Before becoming a film star, she worked as a telephone operator.

Her films include Cinema Queen (1926) Typist Girl (1926); Balidaan (1927); Wild Cat of Bombay, in which she played eight different characters, which was remade as Bambai Ki Billi (1936); Madhuri (1928), which was rereleased with sound in 1932; Anarkali (1928), remade in 1945; Indira BA (1929); Heer Ranjah (1929); and many others, such as Baaz (1953).

Sulochana established her own film studio, Rubi Pics, in the mid-1930s. Ismail Merchant paid homage to her in Mahatma and the Bad Boy (1974).

External links

• http://www.upperstall.com/people/sulochana.html

Indian actors | Indian Jews | 1907 births | 1983 deaths

Sulochana