The period from 1890’s to 1930 saw an innovative change in the field of movies. Four decades of trial and error paid off in 1930’s when Ardeshir Irani brought Alam Ara to the Indian audience. It was the first Indian talkie film. However in 1927, The Jazz Singer became the first talkie film in the world. It was made with Vitaphone which was a leading brand of sound on disc technology. Technically the rest of the world was way ahead of India back then too because In India people are not likely to accept change quickly and thus the development takes time.
On 14th March 1931, Ardeshir Irani released ALAM
ARA and then followed up by producing first south Indian talkie film KALIDAS which
was directed by H. M. REDDY and released on 31st October 1931. ‘Talkie
film’ means talking film or films with sound. This new technology was liked by Indian
audience and soon Indian Film Industry sky rocketed to the top and today is the
largest producer of films in world.
During the initial period there were hardly any actors but
the ones who were, carried out multiple tasks and thus were paid a good sum of
money too. CHITTOR V. NAGAIAH was the first multilingual film actor, singer,
composer, producer and directors in India. He was popular to be known as the
Paul Muni of India in the media.
As the sound technology improved over the years, 1930’s saw
a rise of music in Indian cinema with musicals such as INDRA SABHA and DEVI
DEVYANI being the first with a concept of song and dance in Indian films. Rapid
changes enthralled the Indian audience and attracted them which could be seen
due to the massive success of DEVDAS. Studios were being built and one of the
oldest standing studios till date is the AVM studio in Chennai which has produced
over 170 films in multiple languages.
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