Husein Alarakhia Kheraj

Husein Alarakhia Kheraj

Town of birth

• Bagamoyo

Country of birth

• Tanzania

Date of Birth

• 1884

Date of Death

• 1950

Place of Death

• Dar es Salaam

Name of Cemetery and plot no

• SeaView Ismaili Cemetry
• Dar es Salaam

Place of longest stay

• Dar es Salaam

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Business-Bollywood Film Producer

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Alarakhia Kheraj

Siblings

Mehdi Alarakhia Kheraj

Partners

Fatmabai Jaffer Thawer 1898

Children

Amir Husein Kheraj 1935

Fateh Husein Kheraj 1930

Jafferali Husein Kheraj 1932–2005

Jimmy Nizar Husein Kheraj 1938–1994

Karmali Husein Kheraj 1922

Kulsum Husein Kheraj 1926–1977

Remti Husein Kheraj 1924

Sakar Husein Kheraj 1928

Zainy Husein Kheraj 1934

Born in 1884 Bagamoyo

Alarakhia Kheraj(Born in Bagamoyo).

Hussein Bhai joined his family business called "Sundries Ltd.

In 1941, the business was not doing well and was sold to Hussein Nasser Shariff.

Between 1941-1948, Husein Alarakhia Kheraj took his entire family and went to Bombay, where he went into the film industry- his son, Amir remembers a family-owned performing horse called “Gulfarm”, which was hitched to tanga horse-cart every Sunday, for the family to spend the evening at Juhu Beach, Bombay.

Some of the films made by Asiatic Pictures (a company owned by Hussein Bhai and Ismail Mohamed Dewji) were as follows:

Film: YAAD (1942)

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Film: Chand Tara (1943)

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Film: Panihari (1945)

Film: Maansarover (1946)

Amir's most memorable recollection of this period was at the shooting of the film “Yaad”. Veena, the lead actress was required to say a line to her lover, Saatish, who had asked to meet her at a certain hour, something to the effect “I have no watch”. Veena, who was actually, a beautiful but peasant girl from Kashmir refused to say the line-her reason was that people would think that she was a gawar-a peasant, which was insulting! Notwithstanding, Veena was snatched away by the famous filmmaker, Mehboob and Asiatic Pictures was into a long lawsuit, which they eventually won.