Mehboob Studios
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| Private | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | 1944 |
| Founder | Sajid Khan |
| Headquarters | 100 Hill Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai 19°03′09″N 72°49′31″E / 19.0523641°N 72.8253194°ECoordinates: 19°03′09″N 72°49′31″E / 19.0523641°N 72.8253194°E |
| Services | film studio, recording studio |
Mehboob Studio is an Indian film studio and recording studio in Bandra (W), Mumbai, founded by director and producer Mehboob Khan in 1954 who owned Mehboob Productions and is most known for films like Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is spread over 20,000 square yards and includes five shooting stages. It soon become popular with directors like Guru Dutt, Chetan Anand and Dev Anand. In following decades it was used by Manmohan Desai extensively. A recording studio was added in the 1970s and both remain in use.
The studio was used from November 2010 to January 2011 for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor in India; the other part was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Director Mehboob Khan, who started his directorial journey in 1935, had already established Mehboob Productions in 1942 and had made hits like Anmol Ghadi (1946) and Andaz (1949). He started looking land closer to central Mumbai compared with older studios like Filmistan and Bombay Talkies which were in far-flung, Goregoan and Malad. Eventually he settled for seaside Bandra, then a quiet and marshy area, long before the Reclamation that took place later. The plot close to historic Mount Mary's Church was bought in 1951 from Jaffer Bhai, a local Bohra Muslim. A portion of land housed a school run by a Parsi woman and the rest had farmland for vegetables. The construction was completed in 1954.
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