It was time; people had started to notice the magic of cinema. On 18th May 1912 "SHREE PUNDALIK" a silent Marathi film by Dadasaheb Torne released. It was the first Indian film which released at coronation cinematograph at the then called Bombay. It’s quite controversial as it is believed that it cannot be called India's first film because it was a photographic recording of a famous Marathi play as well the camera man named Johnson was British and the film was processed in London.
Then entered the father
of Indian cinema Mr.DADASAHEB PHALKE. A scholar on India's languages and
culture broke new grounds in the Indian Film Industry. Producer-screenwriter-director
DADASAHEB PHALKE combined the elements from Sanskrit epics and produced Raja
Harishchandra in 1913 a silent Marathi film. It is known to be the first full
length Indian motion picture and interestingly the female characters in the
film were played by male actors. Thus gaining a huge success it motivated many
others to make such films.
In 1916,Tamil filmmaker
R.Nataraja Mudaliar made first Tamil silent film named Keechaka Vadham. The
film industry was taking its place and was building a strong base with an
intention to succeed and prowess, bold decisions were been taken as in that era,
money was a primary concern for many upcoming producers. It was a niche market
to enter and therefore many were scared to incur a loss. The ones with money
entered and one of them was Jamshedji Framji Madan a Parsi entrepreneur who owned
first Indian chain of cinema houses named Madan theatre.
It produced 10 films annually
and distributed throughout the Indian Subcontinent from the year 1902. In 1919, also being a founder of Elphinstone Bioscope Company, Calcutta he merged with Madan
Theatre Limited and produced Bengals popular literary work. He made a remake of Dadasaheb Phalke’s RAJA HARISHCHANDRA as SATYAWADI RAJA HARISHCHANDRA in 1917.
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