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Raja Harishchandra (transl. King Harishchandra) is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film. Raja Harishchandra features Dattatraya Damodar Dabke, Anna Salunke, Bhalchandra Phalke and Gajanan Vasudev Sane.
His first company, Elphinstone Bioscope, was a leading producer and distributor of foreign films in permanent and travelling cinema in India, whereas his second company, Madan Theaters Limited, was mainly involved in exhibition, distribution and production of Indian films during the silent era of film industry. [7]
Indian silent film people (3 C) Pages in category "Indian silent films" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others.
By that time, the sound films had screened in India with the release on Alam Ara – the first sound film in the Indian cinema, on 14 March 1931. [82] Being a silent film, Setubandhan faced difficulties in getting theaters with the competition from sound films. It was released in 1932.
Silent Cinema in India - A Pictorial Journey is a 2012 Indian English language non-fiction book, written by B D Garga and published by HarperCollins India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It won the 2012 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema [ 3 ]
Silent Cinema (1895–1930) is an English language non-fiction book written by Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao. It won the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
When India entered the era of talkies with Alam Ara in March 1931, Shantaram predicted that it was a transient phase, and the silent films were the real artistic area. But soon the company realized its mistake, and joined the talkie era with Ayodhyecha Raja (The King of Ayodhya) in Marathi (1932), also starring Durga Khote , which was the first ...