India's first talkie was Alam Ara (1931) starring Zubeida, who, as the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin, was a princess in real life. The film is now lost.
Unjha, Gujarat, is the hub of the Indian trade in cumin (jeera) seeds. When the Syrian civil war began, Unjha & India virtually became the world's sole supplier of cumin seeds.
