He started his first cinema school 1924 after arriving in Calcutta, India: after facing many difficulties he decided to move to homeland to start the first cinema school in capital where he created the first full-length persian silent film called Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor and his second movie Abi and Rabi. After traveling to India in 1927, Abdul-Hussein Sepanta was inspired to make Persian language films, of which he ended up making four.