After death of Himanshu Rai, founder of from Bombay Talkies Studio in 1940, a group led by producer Sashadhar Mukherjee along woth with production controller Rai Bahadur Chunilal, actor Ashok Kumar and Mukherjee, broke away to establish the Filmistan studio in March 1943 at the premises of old Sharada Movietone studios in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Pranab Mukherjee | Madhabi Mukherjee | Udayan Mukherjee | Shritama Mukherjee | Sheema Mukherjee | Sapna Mukherjee | Gyan Mukherjee | Budhaditya Mukherjee | Tripti Mukherjee | Swastika Mukherjee | Sushmita Mukherjee | Satish Chandra Mukherjee | Sashadhar Mukherjee | Mukherjee | Mani Shankar Mukherjee | Keshto Mukherjee | Deb Mukherjee | Ashutosh Mukherjee | Arundhati Mukherjee |
It is based on the highly successful Hindi film of Bombay Talkies by Gyan Mukherjee entitled Kismet (1943) starring Ashok Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti.