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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 ...
Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum was shot in Gevacolor and is notable for being the first Tamil and South Indian full-length colour film. It is a remake of the 1954 Hindi film Alibaba Aur 40 Chor , itself based on the story Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from One Thousand and One Nights .
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 ...
Kisan Kanya is a 1937 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Moti Gidwani and produced by Ardeshir Irani under the banner of Imperial Pictures. Made using Cinecolor, the film is based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto that highlights the struggles of poor farmers. [2] The film is historically significant as India’s first indigenously made ...
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.
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 ...
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.
The first colour film made in India was Kisan Kanya (1937, Moti B). [72] Viswa Mohini (1940) was the first Indian film to depict the Indian movie-making world. [73] Swamikannu Vincent, who had built the first cinema of South India in Coimbatore, introduced the concept of "tent cinema" in which a tent was erected on a stretch of open land to ...