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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 ...
Film pioneer Ardeshir Irani, who had produced notable films as Nala Damayanti (1920) which was India's first international co-production [9] (with Italy) and India's first talkie Alam Ara (1931) conceived the idea of producing a color film. The result of his efforts was the color film Kisan Kanya made with the Cinecolor process [2] whose ...
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 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 ...
Films from 1903 to 1935 that were photographed at least partially in color, including early uses of Technicolor for example. This does not include black and white films that were tinted, hand-painted or colorized.
Joymoti is a 1935 Indian film widely considered to be the first Assamese film ever made. Based on Lakshminath Bezbaroa's play about the 17th-century Ahom princess Joymoti Konwari, the film was produced and directed by the noted Assamese poet, author, and film-maker Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, and starred Aideu Handique and acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma.
Cinema of South India, refers to the cinema of the four major film industries in South India; primarily engaged in making feature films in the four major languages of the region, namely — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. They are often colloquially referred to as Tollywood, Kollywood, Sandalwood and Mollywood, respectively.
Having achieved success in Hindi cinema by releasing India's first sound film Alam Ara in 1931, Irani wanted to expand his scope to South Indian cinema. Bhakta Prahlada was released on 6 February 1932, and was positively received by the audience but variedly by critics, who panned its resemblance to the stage version, poor sound recording, and ...