Dalsukh M. Pancholi

Dalsukh M. Pancholi
Born 1906
Karachi, British India
Died 1959 (age 53)
Bombay, India

Dalsukh M. Pancholi (1906–1959) was an Indian film-maker, producer and distributor who is remembered for making the first Punjabi film. Considered to be a film pioneer, Pancholi's Empire Talkie Distributors based in Lahore were the biggest importer of American films in northern and western India. Pancholi's Pancholi Art Pics was also the largest film studio in Lahore at the time of the Partition of India.

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