Pushpa-level business in 1948? Sooraj Barjatya says his grandfather Tarachand Barjatya released the first Pan-India blockbuster, Chandralekha: “It was the Baahubali of those times”
Sooraj Barjatya had an interesting conversation with Mayank Shekhar of Mid-Day, during which he spoke about his films, his journey and also that of his production house, Rajshri Productions, started by his grandfather, Tarachand Barjatya. The Pan-India phenomenon is quite huge right now, which usually involves a Southern language film being dubbed into Hindi. Sooraj Barjatya revealed that it was his grandfather who probably began this trend. Sooraj Barjatya began by saying that Tarachand Barjatya used to work as a manager in Kolkata in a Bengali film company, Chamaria Pictures. This production house allowed him to start a small side business and this is how Tarachand began distributing films. Sooraj Barjatya said, “Whenever I used to talk to him (Tarachand Barjatya), he used to have tears in his eyes when he would speak about Gemini Pictures. He started a small distribution company in CP-Berar. He was wondering how to start his business. He went to the South and met S S Vasan, who h...