Ansuya

[1] filmography

[2] filmography

Remembers Baburao ( Anusuya Bai is introduced as the first woman from a respectable family to act on the silver screen, introduced by Baburao)

When one sees the prestige of film starts today, hearing of their slaries, and reading about the controversises in the newspapers, it brings back memories of the year 1928.

Kalamaharishi Baburao Painter comes before my eyes. He was the one who brought us actors to the silver screen. When Dadasaheb Phalke first began to make films in India, he would have good looking men dress up in women's clothes and play the female roles. But when Baburao Painter began to enhance the art of cinema in Kohlapur, he was the first one who had women doing women's roles.

As a preperation to starting a film company, Baburao opened a theatre, called Maharashtra theatre. English films and Phalke's films would be shown there. I would secretly go to see films there. In those days, it was considered a great sin for a woman to see a film. If one acted in a film... don't even ask. And I belonged to a respectable, educated family! My brother in law was a doctor. I used to study under him. I had finished my seventh standard.

After watching films like 'Liberty' and 'Peg of Gary', I desired to - act in films.