April 18th, 2010

Indian Sound Feature Films 1931 – 1940

Total number of Indian talkie films produced in different languages from 1931-1940.

Language 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Arabic
Assamese 1 1
Avadhi
Badaga
Bengali 4 5 9 10 19 20 16 19 16 16
Bhojpuri
Bodo
Brij Bhasha
Chhatisghari
Coorgi
Dogri
English 1 1
Garwhali
German
Gujarati 2 1 1 3 1 1
Gujjar
Haryanvi
Hindi 23 61 75 121 154 135 102 88 80 85
Iranian
Kannada 2 1
Karbi
Kashmiri
Khasi
Kodava
Kok Borok
Konkani
Kumaoni
Magdhi
Maithili
Malayalam 1 1
Malvi
Manipuri
Marathi 8 6 11 9 6 11 14 12 10
Marwari
Nagamese
Nagpuri
Nepali
Nimadi
Oriya 1
Persian 1 1 2 1
Pushtu
Punjabi 1 1 1 7 7
Rajasthani
Sanskrit
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Tamil 1 4 7 14 38 38 37 39 35 36
Telugu 3 5 3 7 12 10 10 12 14
Thai
Tulu
Urdu
Total 28 84 103 164 233 217 176 172 164 170

Note:- This chart compiles official figures of censored films published annually by the Central Board of Film Certification. These figures could include several dubbed films, and usually number multilinguals as distinct and independent productions for each language.

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