April 18th, 2010

Indian Sound Feature Films 1951 – 1960

Total number of Indian talkie films produced in different languages from 1951-1960.

Language 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
Arabic
Assamese 1 1 2 3 3 2 5
Avadhi
Badaga
Bengali 39 43 50 48 52 54 55 45 38 36
Bhojpuri
Bodo
Brij Bhasha
Chhatisghari
Coorgi
Dogri
English 2 2 1 1 1 1
Garwhali
German 1
Gujarati 6 2 3 3 1 2
Gujjar
Haryanvi
Hindi 99 102 97 118 125 122 115 114 115 118
Iranian
Kannada 2 1 7 11 15 14 14 11 5 12
Karbi
Kashmiri
Khasi
Kodava
Kok Borok
Konkani
Kumaoni
Magdhi
Maithili
Malayalam 6 11 7 9 7 5 7 4 3 6
Malvi
Manipuri
Marathi 16 17 21 18 13 13 14 16 9 15
Marwari
Nagamese
Nagpuri
Nepali 1
Nimadi
Oriya 1 1 1 2 1 2 5
Persian 1
Pushtu
Punjabi 4 3 3 2 1 1 4
Rajasthani
Sanskrit
Sindhi 77 3 1
Sinhalese
Tamil 26 32 42 38 46 51 45 61 78 64
Telugu 21 25 29 28 24 27 36 36 47 54
Thai
Tulu
Urdu
Total 221 233 260 278 288 295 293 294 304 318

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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