The credit for the First Female Actress of Indian Cinema goes to Durgabai Kamat who played the lead in Dadasaheb Phalke‘s second film, Mohini Bhasmasur (1913). Readers are aware that in Dadasaheb Phalke‘s first film Raja Harishchandra had no lady due to indifference of society towards cinema. Ladies role were performed by Male actors disguised as ladies. However down foreign…
Generally, Film censorship is related to a Board of film experts watching the film and deleting indecent or otherwise objectionable representations that could hurt sentiments of masses. However, readers would be surprised to know that the Film censorship came into existence first for the ‘Protection of the Public’ watching the film!! Surprised?? Well, in the early days when cinema was…
With the advent of silent cinema in India, there was a desperate need for cinema halls. Filmmakers showed cinema in open ground erecting a tent. The biggest drawback of tent cinema was that it could portray just one show at night! Hence the profit was limited. Besides, during monsoon, the film had to be abruptly stopped until the rain stopped.…
The Father Of Bengali cinema is Dhirendranath Ganguly, popularly known as DG, who holds the distinction of being the Producer of First Bengali Silent Film Bilat Ferat (1921). Besides he has the prestige of establishing not 1 but 3 Production Houses viz. Indo-British Film Company, British Dominion Films, and Lotus Film Company. Dhirendranath Ganguly took education at Shantiniketan under the…
The huge success of Dadasaheb Phalke‘s Film Raja Harishchandra (1913) created ripples around India and regional language creative people began learning the art of filmmaking thus started the birth of Regional Cinema in India. Indian Film History (IFH) hereunder enlighten readers about birth of cinema in South Indian languages Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar – ‘Father Of Tamil Cinema’ The First Filmmaker…
The first Indian film released in India was indeed Shree Pundalik, a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on 18 May 1912 at Coronation Cinematograph, Bombay but since the film was made in collaboration with the U.K. hence it was declined the honor of being India’s First Silent film. A year later on May 3, 1913, India finally witnessed…
After Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar‘s silent film The Wrestlers, released on 7th July 1896 in Mumbai another filmmaker Dadasaheb Torne from Maharashtra made headlines with the release of his full-length silent feature film Shree Pundalik. The film was released on 18 May 1912 at Coronation Cinematograph, Bombay. Dadasaheb Torne aka Ram Chandra Gopal Torne was born on 13th April 1890. He…
Indian Film History (IFH) as the name suggests is committed to enlightening readers about the golden History of Indian cinema. Hence in our New Series Centenary of Indian Cinema IFH takes you down memory lane and enhances your knowledge of Indian films since the birth of Indian cinema. Focus is on the technical changes that have taken Indian cinema to…
