April 18th, 2010

Indian Sound Feature Films 1941 – 1950

Total number of Indian talkie films produced in different languages from 1941-1950.

Language 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Arabic 1 1
Assamese 1 2 2
Avadhi
Badaga
Bengali 19 18 21 14 9 15 33 37 62 42
Bhojpuri
Bodo
Brij Bhasha
Chhatisghari
Coorgi
Dogri
English 1 1 1 1
Garwhali
German
Gujarati 1 11 27 17 13
Gujjar
Haryanvi
Hindi 73 98 106 85 73 155 183 147 159 114
Iranian 1
Kannada 2 2 4 1 5 2 6 1
Karbi
Kashmiri
Khasi
Kodava
Kok Borok
Konkani 1
Kumaoni
Magdhi
Maithili
Malayalam 1 1 1 6
Malvi
Manipuri
Marathi 13 13 7 5 2 6 7 15 19
Marwari 1
Nagamese
Nagpuri
Nepali
Nimadi
Oriya 1 2
Persian 3
Pushtu 1 1
Punjabi 8 5 1 2 1 1 1 5
Rajasthani
Sanskrit
Sindhi 1
Sinhalese 1
Tamil 32 23 13 14 11 16 29 32 21 19
Telugu 15 12 6 6 5 9 6 7 7 18
Thai
Tulu
Urdu
Total 166 173 161 127 99 199 280 263 291 241

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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