He was renowned for making films in Hindi, Telugu, English, German, Indonesian, Persian, Urdu and Tamil.

[2][3] In 1905, Irani became the Indian representative of Universal Studios and he ran Alexander Cinema in Bombay with Abdulally Esoofally for over forty years.

It was at Alexandera Cinema that Ardeshir Irani learnt the rules of the art of filmmaking and became fascinated by the medium.

Their first silent feature film, Veer Abhimanyu was released in 1922 and starred Fatima Begum in the female lead.

He completed his hat-trick of earning fame when he made the first colour feature film of India, Kisan Kanya (1937).

[4] Irani's Imperial Films introduced a number of new actors to Indian Cinema, including Prithviraj Kapoor and Mehboob Khan.

However, the outdoor undesirable sounds were disturbing him so greatly that he shot the entire sequence in the studio under heavy lights.

Irani made one hundred fifty-eight films in a long and illustrious career of twenty-five years, between the First and Second World Wars.