 Wadia who was the founder of Wadia Movietone, the behemoth of stunts and action in 1930s Bombay.At first, J.B.H.was bemused at Mary's insistence on trying out for the movies, but he took a gamble by giving her a cameo as a slave girl (in a hand-painted colour sequence that accentuated her blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes) in the film "Desh Deepak", and then as Princess Parizaad in "Noor-e-Yaman".