Posts Tagged ‘Bollywood’
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1905
Important Events J. F. Madan turns producer with Jyotish Sarkar’s film of a protest rally against Partition
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1904
Important Events Manek D. Sethna starts the Touring Cinema Co. in Bombay, showing The Life of Christ (two reels).
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1903
Important Events H.S. Bhatavdekar and American Biograph film Lord Curzon’s Delhi Durbar, marking the enthronement of Edward VII.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1902
Important Events J. F. Madan launches his bioscope show in a tent on Calcutta’s Maidan, the foundation of a massive exhibition and distribution empire which dominated silent Indian, Burmese and Sri Lankan cinemas.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1901
Important Events Hiralal Sen’s Royal Bioscope establishes film exhibition alongside the commercial theatre in Calcutta, filming extracts from plays. H.S. Bhatavdekar films the landing of Sir M. M. Bhownuggree and the arrival (returning from Cambridge University) of Sir Wrangler Mr R. P. Paranjpye.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1900
Important Events Major Warwick establishes a cinema in Madras. F. B. Thanawala’s Grand Kinetoscope newsreels establish the genre’s commercial possibilities. Footage of the Boer War is released at the Novelty Cinema, Bombay.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1899
Important Events H.S. Bhatavdekar films a wrestling match in Bombay’s hanging gardens.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1898
Important Events Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia, organize film shows in tents at the Azad Maidan, Bombay. Hiralal Sen starts making films. Amritlal Bose screens a package of ‘actualities’ and ‘fakes’ at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include Poona ...
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1897
Important Events First films shown in Calcutta and Madras. Clifton & Co. announce daily screenings at their Meadows Street photography studio, Bombay.
Bollywood – Year by Year – 1896
Important Events First film screening at Watson’s Hotel, Bombay, on 7 July, by the Lumiere cameraman Marius Sestier. The Madras Photographic Stores advertises imported ‘animated photographs’, reviewed in the Journal of the Amateur Photographic Society of Madras.
Cineplot Music
Cineplot Photo Gallery
Duniya na Mane (1937)
My Past - Meena Kumari's Poem
Bollywood - Year by Year - 1947
Hemant Kumar - Shamshad Begum
Phool Aur Patthar (1966)