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Partly in colour: 1952: First Tamil and South Indian film with a colour sequence. Song sequence of "Engu Sendraayo" filmed in colour. Kanavaney Kankanda Deivam: 1955: Second Tamil film to have colour sequence. Song sequence of "Jagajothiye" and ending dance sequence in colour. Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum: Colour: 1956: First full length Tamil ...
This is because illiterate Tamil masses would have watched Hollywood movies produced in [colour] for entertainment. But, being illiterate, [the] majority wouldn't have comprehended the dialogues and songs in English." [11] It won the Film Fans' Association Award for Best Tamil Film. [64] [65] The film was later dubbed in Telugu as Ali Baba 40 ...
Sivanthaman was the first color movie in Tamil shot at foreign locations. Dharti , the Hindi version was released in 1970 with Rajendra Kumar , Waheeda Rehman and Sivaji Ganesan in lead roles. When in 1973, he went through sudden financial problems, at the insistence of Rajendra Kumar he approached M. G. Ramachandran , who suggested that a film ...
Chintamani was based on the legendary story of a Sanskrit poet and devotee of Lord Krishna named Bilwamangal (M. K. Thyragaraja Bhagavathar). Bilwamangal, a resident of Varanasi, was a Sanskrit scholar, who gets infatuated towards a courtesan called Chintamani (Aswathamma), a woman of ill-fame.
After the success of India's first sound film Alam Ara (1931), its director Ardeshir Irani wanted to venture into South Indian cinema. [4] In the same year, he chose H. M. Reddy, his former assistant, [5] to direct the first South Indian sound film, which would later become the first Tamil-Telugu film Kalidas, [a] based on the life of the Sanskrit poet and playwright Kalidasa.
Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
The first Tamil talking feature film, Kalidas, a multilingual directed by H. M. Reddy was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India's first talking motion picture Alam Ara. [9] Tamil cinema has been noted for its advanced narratives and diverse films, with several productions in the 1990s and early 2000s cutting across ...
The Tamil-language film industry has produced and released over 10000 films since the release of its first sound film, kalidas, in 1931.This is a master list of listings of films released from 1931 in the industry by decade of release.