Shalom Bollywood: India's forgotten history of Jews who made it big in early cinema
Though they were outsiders, Jewish performers found it easy to blend in in Bombay cinema.
It was a Jewish telephone operator, Ruby Myers, who rose to become the first superstar of Indian silent cinema. Renamed Sulochana, she was presented as a glamorous icon on Hollywood lines, billed above the title like Garbo and Dietrich.
