Soharab Modi was an Indian stage & film actor,  director and producer. His films always carried a message of strong commitment to social and national issues.

Soharab Modi began as a Parsi Theater actor in a silent films. His brother set up his Arya Subhodh Theatrical Company.  Soharab and his brother traveling throughout India with Theatrical Company. Modi set up the stage film company.  His first film was “Khoon ka Khoon” was an adaption of Hamlet.  The second “Said-e-Havas” was based on Shakespeare’s King John.

Modiji launched Minerva Movitone in 1936. His early film for social issues such as alcoholism in “Meetha Zahar” and the right of Hindu woman to divorce in “Talaq”. Minerva Movitone became famous for historical films such as Pukar, Sikander, Prithvi Vallabh. Pukar was set in the court of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir.  Film’s highlights Jehangir’s fair sence of justice. Film “Sikander” was set in 326 BC. Alexander the great having conquered Persia and the Kabul Valley. He descends on the Indian border at Jhelam. Porus who stops the advance with his troops. The movie was rated by a British writer as “well up the standard of that old masterpiece The Birth of a Nation”. It’s dramatic, declamatory dialogue gave both Prithviraj Kapoor (Sikander) and Soharab Modi (Porus). “Prithvi Vallabh” was based on K. M. Munshi’s novel.

India’s first technicolor film “Jhansi ki Rani” made by Modiji. The film “Mirza Ghalib” base on the life of the great Indian Poet. The film won the President’s Gold Medal for best feature film of 1954. “Jailor” film dedicated jailor’s life undergoes changes after his wife leaves with another male.Soharab Modi cast himself in the title role of the jailor.

In 1960 he was a member of the Jury at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Soharab Modi received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1980. He was the tenth recipient of the Award.