The
late 1940s to 1960 is known to be the golden age for Indian cinema. Some of the
best cinematic wonders took place in between this two decade. It also saw the
birth of parallel cinema, mainly led by Bengali cinema. Movies such as NEECHA
NAGAR (1946), NAGRIK (1952), DO BIGHA ZAMEEN (1953) lay the foundation of
Indian neorealist.
The
style of new Indian wave in cinemas starting from the year 1955 like PATHER
PANCHALI, THE APU TRIOLOGY was brought in by filmmaker Satyajit Ray, winning
many international film festival awards, Indian Film Industry was being noticed
for creativeness in its story and execution by the world. In 1967, Satyajit Ray
written film named “The Alien” was said to be an inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s
E.T. (1982). However Ray’s project got cancelled. He and Ritwik Ghatak were two
of the prominent names in art films and parallel cinema.
Along
with parallel cinema, commercial cinemas also started gaining huge success.
Movies like Guru Dutt’s PYAASA (1957), KAAGAZ KE PHOOL (1959), Raj Kapoor’s
AWAARA (1951), SHREE 420(1955), MUGHAL-E-AZAM (1960), and V. Shantaram’s DO
AAKHEN BARAH HAATH (1957) were appreciated by audience and were a cult hit. The
quality of these films was so good that the tag of being a masala movie from
Indian Films Industry was partially wiped off. A journey towards amazing
stories and ethical filmmaking was a key ingredient in this golden age of
Indian cinema.
Mehboob
Khan’s MOTHER INDIA (1957) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film. As said before people started noticing our work and because of filmmakers
such as V. Shantaram, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Mani Kaul, Adoor
Gopalakrishnan, G. Aravindan, Girish Kasaravalli, Bimal Roy, Buddhadeb Dasgupta
and K. Asif. The golden age of Indian cinema
was indeed precious as gold.
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