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The arrival of cinema in India in 1896, with the first film screening by the Lumière brothers. [4] India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra, released in 1913. [5] The transition from silent to talkie films in the 1930s. [6] The evolution of Indian cinema through the first half of the 20th century, including the rise of Bollywood. [7]
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is a part of Indian cinema. It is based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, and is dedicated to the production of films in the Bengali-language. The following table lists the top 10 highest-grossing Indian Bengali films.
Indian film stars popular in China included Raj Kapoor, Nargis, [197] and Mithun Chakraborty. [196] Hindi films declined significantly in popularity in China during the 1980s. [198] Films by Aamir Khan have recently been successful, [196] [199] and Lagaan was the first Indian film with a nationwide Chinese release in 2011.
[4] [5] At the 55th Academy Awards, Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award for designing the costumes. [6] Ravi Shankar was nominated for Best Original Score for the same film. [7] As of 2023, three Indian films have been nominated for Best International Feature Film — Mother India, Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001).
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. [8] [9] Indian cinema is made up of various film industries, each focused on producing films in a specific language, such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others.
The following is the list of highest-grossing Indian films released in 2023. The rank of the films in the following table depends on the estimate of worldwide collections as reported by organizations classified as green by Wikipedia. [a] There is no official tracking of domestic box office figures within India.
Parallel cinema, or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema. Inspired by Italian Neorealism , Parallel Cinema began just before the French New Wave and Japanese New Wave , and was a precursor to the Indian New ...
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is a part of Indian cinema. It is based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, and is dedicated to the production of films in the Bengali-language. The following table lists the top three most expensive Indian Bengali films.