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Films arrived in India less than a year after the Lumieres first exhibited their cinematography in Paris. On July 7, 1896, an agent who had brought equipment and films from France first showed his moving pictures in Bombay. That was an important day in the social and cultural history of the Indian Film Industry , Hindi Film Industry , Latest Bollywood News , Bollywood actors news , Bollywood actresses news.
The first Indian-made feature film was released in 1913. It was made by Dadasaheb Phalke and was called Raja Harishchandra. Based on a story from the Mahabharata it was a stirring film concerned with honour, sacrifice and mighty deeds. From then on many "mythologicals" were made and took India by storm. Phalke's company alone produced about a hundred film of Indian Film Industry | Hindi Film Industry | Latest Bollywood News | Bollywood actors news | Bollywood actresses news.

What little remains of Indian silent cinema up to 1931 barely fills six video-cassettes in the National Film Archives of India, but it is remarkable for the way traditional "theatrical" framing (static characters, faced front on by the ...
... camera) is animated by a considerable investment in location shooting, both in natural surroundings and in the city of Indian Film Industry | Hindi Film Industry | Latest Bollywood News | Bollywood actors news | Bollywood actresses news. This is evident not only in Raja Harishchandra, but also in historical--stunt films such as Diler Jigar/Gallant Hearts and Gulaminu Patan.The Fall of Slavery, and in the international co-productions directed by Himansu Rai and the German Franz Osten. Among these, Light of Asia, about the Buddha, and Shiraz about the origins of the Taj Mahal, referred to as 'Romances from India' by their producers, render "India" as a startling, exotic assemblage: scenes of ancient and medieval court life, attended by the ritual of courtly gesture, and by spectacular processions of elephants and camels, are juxtaposed with a glittering naturalism.

Calcutta became the vanguard of the art cinema, with the emergence of the film society movement at the end of the 1940s and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali Song of the Road, Indian Film Industry | Hindi Film Industry | Latest Bollywood News | Bollywood actors news | Bollywood actresses news. Produced with West Bengal state government support in 1955. Post-independence, despite a relatively sympathetic government enquiry in 1951, the industry became the object of considerable moral scrutiny and criticism, and was subject to severe taxation. A covert consensus emerged between proponents of art cinema and the state, all focussing on the imperative to create a "better" cinema. The Film and Television Institute of India was established at Pune in 1959 to develop technical skills for an industry seen to be lacking in this field.

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