The presentation is based on Tejaswini Apte-Rahm's new book 'Tatyasaheb:The Story of a Bombay Entrepreneur', where she chronicles the life and times of Vaman Shridhar Apte, one of Mumbai's most unlikely and successful businessmen of the early 20th century. It charts his life from his origins in Girgaon, to his rising fortunes in the Gujarati bastion of MJ Market as the sole selling agent for Kohinoor Mills textiles, his tumultuous relationship with Dadasaheb Phalke during his unexpected career as a silent film producer, when he produced over a hundred feature films, and his further success as a leading industrialist with the founding of the Phaltan Sugar Works. The presentation will deal with different aspects of the rise of Bombay’s textile and silent film industry, and the historical and business contexts of the time that enabled their success. It will also discuss the context that created the conditions for the beginnings of the sugar industry in Maharashtra, and enabled the success of early sugar industrialists like Tatyasaheb. The story is as much that of the remarkable Tatyasaheb as it is of how Bombay became a wealth-generating dynamo by nurturing and, in turn, being enriched by, the risk-takers and entrepreneurs who made the city into the business hub it has become today.