---
name: "Himanshu Rai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/himansu-rai"
fi1m_id: "himansu-rai"
imdb_id: "nm0706795"
tmdb_id: 114321
wikidata_id: "Q1619016"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1892"
died: "18 May 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-25T00:11:34.239777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Himanshu Rai

## Identity

Himanshu Rai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/himansu-rai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** himansu-rai
- **IMDb ID:** nm0706795
- **TMDB ID:** 114321
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1619016
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himanshu_Rai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1619016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114321

Producer. Born 1 January 1892 in Cuttack, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]. Died 18 May 1940.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1892, Cuttack, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
- **Died:** 18 May 1940
- **Also known as:** Himansu Rai
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himanshu_Rai, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1619016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114321

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- **Tubi:** [*A Throw of Dice*](https://film.one/film/a-throw-of-dice.md) (81)

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## Biography

Himanshu Rai, also credited as Himansu Rai, was an Indian actor, director and producer. Born in 1892 in Cuttack in the Bengal Presidency of British India, he trained as a lawyer before becoming involved in theatre and film while in London.

He collaborated with playwright Niranjan Pal and German director Franz Osten on a series of Indo-German productions. Rai appeared in and produced *The Light of Asia* (1925), *Shiraz* (1928) and *A Throw of Dice* (1929), in which he played King Sohat. He later founded the Bombay Talkies studio in 1934 with actress Devika Rani, to whom he was married from 1929 until his death in 1940.

Rai is regarded as a pioneer of Indian cinema. His other notable works include *Karma* (1933).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Throw of Dice* (1929), Fi1m 81, as King Sohat — [page](https://film.one/film/a-throw-of-dice.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Punar Milan* (1940), Producer
- *Nirmala* (1938), Producer
- *Mother* (1936), Producer
- *Untouchable Girl* (1936), Story
- *Jeevan Naiya* (1936), Producer
- *Jawani Ki Hawa* (1935), Producer
- *Karma* (1933), as Prince
- *A Throw of Dice* (1929), as King Sohat · Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/a-throw-of-dice.md)
- *Shiraz: A Romance of India* (1928), as Shiraz · Producer
- *The Light of Asia* (1925), as Gautama · Director, Producer
- *The Loves of a Mughal Prince 1928*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Himanshu Rai](https://film.one/media/person/3851125/gallery-656cd1f56ae0.jpg) Himanshu Rai — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Himansu_Rai_%28vers_1925%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor-Director-Producer Himansu Rai (1927)](https://film.one/media/person/3851125/gallery-cbc0922750da.jpg) Actor-Director-Producer Himansu Rai (1927) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Himansu_Rai.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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