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Raja Harishchandra (1913)
Commonly performed and often-filmed Mahabharata legend and Phalke’s first feature. The film is often celebrated for having inaugurated the Indian film industry following Phalke’s own claim to that effect (ICC Report, 1928). The cast was drawn from nonprofessionals and although Phalke wanted to cast women in female roles (breaking with stage tradition), no woman agreed ...
Dada Saheb Phalke (1870 – 1944)
May 13th, 1913. The first Indian made silent film,`Raja Harishchandra’ is about to be released at the Coronation Theatre in Girgaum,Bombay. The stage show has finished its act. The live band has struck up a tune and now the screen flickers alive. For the next half hour; cinemagic envelops the audience. The tale of the ...
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.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1907
Important Events J. F. Madan opens the Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta, the first of his cinema chain.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1906
Important Events J.F. Madan’s Elphinstone Bioscope Co. dominates indigenous film production.
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