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• Cinema, popular or parallel, a visual art of storytelling with rich  inputs  of  music , screenplay, cast  and script, mirrors the contemporary society  in which it functions.

 

• From  Dadasaheb  Phalke  to  Farhan  Akhtar, every  decade  of Indian cinema has  reflected  various   hues  and  aspects  of real  life  on  reels  of  cinema.

 • Since its beginning with the film ‘Raja Harish Chandra’ (1913), the cinema has remained the most powerful media for mass communication in India. Cinema has the ability to combine entertainment with communication of ideas. It has the potential appeal for its audience.

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1. The Origin of Indian Cinema

2.The Talkie Era3. The Golden Era4. The Sweet Seventies5. The New Nineties6. The Millennium7. Music & Dance8. Few popular Dialogs

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• Cinema was introduced to India on July 7, 1896. It began with the Lumiere Cinematography, unveiling six silent short films at the Watson Hotel in Bombay.

• 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 .

• The first Indian talkie Alam Ara directed by Ardershir Irani was released on March 14, 1931 .

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• The first Indian talkie Alam Ara

directed by Ardershir Irani was

released on March 14, 1931 .

• The talkie had brought

revolutionary changes in the whole

set up of the industry.

• The year 1931 marked the

beginning of the talking ear in

Bengal and South India.

• The first talkie films in Bengali

(Jumai Shasthi), Telugu (Bhakta

Prahlad) and Tamil (Kalidass)

were released in the same year .

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•  The period from the late 1940s to the 1960s are regarded by film historians as the 'Golden Age' of Indian cinema.

• This period saw the emergence of a

new parallel Cinema  movement ,

mainly led by Bengali Cinema . Early

examples of films in this movement

include Chetan Anand’s Neecha

Nagar (1946) Rwitwik Ghatak’s

(Nagarik)), and Bimal Roy's Two

acres of Land (1953),

•  Pather Pachali, the first part of The Apu Trilogy(1955–1959) by Satyajit Ray, marked his entry in Indian cinema.

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• Commercial Hindi cinema also began thriving, with examples of acclaimed films at the time include the Guru Dutt films Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and theRajKapoor films Awaara(1951) and Shree 420 (1955)

• Some epic films were also produced at the time, including Mehboob Khan's Mother India (1957), which was nominated for the Academy Award  and K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam (1960). V. Shantaram's Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957).

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