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Jamshedji Framji Madan
Jamshedji Framji Madan, professionally known as J. F. Madan, (1856–1923) was an Indian theatre and film magnate who was one of the pioneers of film production in India, an early exhibitor, distributor and producer of films and plays. He accumulated his wealth on the Parsi theatre district scene in Bombay in the 1890s where he owned two theatre companies. He moved to Calcutta in 1902 where he founded Elphinstone Bioscope Company, and began producing and exhibiting silent movies including Jyotish Sarkar's ''Bengal Partition Movement'' in 1905.〔 He expanded his empire considerably after acquiring rights to Pathé Frères films. He produced ''Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra'' in 1917 and ''Bilwamangal'' in 1919.〔 ''Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra'' was the first feature film to be shot in Calcutta.
Elphinstone merged into Madan Theatres Limited in 1919 which brought adapted many of Bengali's most popular literary works to the stage.〔 Madan Theatres was a major force in Indian theatre throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
==Early life==
He was born into a Parsi family in Bombay. Madan's father suffered a huge monetary loss when Bombay Reclamation Bank, which was responsible for reclaiming land between the seven islands of Bombay, failed. JF Madan had to leave school, and he joined Elphinstone Dramatic Club as a prop boy in 1868. By 1875, this amateur club turned into a professional theatre company staging shows all over India.〔pp 17–20, The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings, 1899–1908, Michael Kinnear, Popular Prakshan, 2004, ISBN 81-7154-728-1〕
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