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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1926
Births Noor Jehan (singer/actress) – September 21st, 1926 [Please note that her Year of Birth is disputed. 1922, 1926 and 1929 are the Years of her Birth listed by different sources).
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1922
Births Dilip Kumar (actor/producer) – 11th December – 1922
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1923
Births Dev Anand (actor/director/producer) – 26th September – 1923
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1924
Births Raj Kapoor (actor/director/producer) – 14th December – 1924
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1913
Important Events India’s first full-length, totally indigenous story film, Raja Harishchandra (Silent, 1913), is made by Dada Saheb D.G. Phalke. Supported by his devoted wife Saraswati, D.G. Phalke lays the foundation for regular film production in India. Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra opens on 21st April to a select audience; on 3 May it opens commercially in ...
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1912
Important Events Feature film production in India begins with Dada Saheb R.G. Torney’s – Pundalik (Silent, 1912), a devotional subject adapted from a popular stage play. For decades Indian Cinema will follow this pattern of filmmaking.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1911
Important Events George V visits Delhi. The grand Durbar is India’s first extensively filmed public event, shot by Hiralal Sen, Bourne & Shepherd, Gaumont, Imperial Bioscope, S. N. Patankar and J.F. Madan. Anadi Bose, Debi Ghosh and others start the Aurora Cinema Co. showing films in tents as part of a variety bill.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1910
Important Events Dadasaheb Phalke attends a screening of The Life of Christ at P. B. Mehta’s America-India Cinema.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1909
Important Events The Amateur Dramatic Association is started in Bangalore, associated with playwright T. P. Kailasam and stage actor-director Ballari Raghava, bringing modernism to Kannada theatre. Performance in Bengal of Dwijendralal Roy’s historical, Shah Jehan. Together with Rana Pratapsingha (1904), Durgadas (1906), Noor Jehan (1907) and Mewar Patan (1908) , Shah Jehan anchors the stage ...
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1908
Important Events Abdulally Esoofally, a South Asian and Singaporean travelling showman, starts exhibiting in India.
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