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| 1921 | ||||
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– Bilet Pherat, the first Indian film with a contemporary setting, is released. It also marks the directorial debut of Dhirendranath Ganguly. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Kanjibhai Rathod’s Bhakta Vidur becomes the country’s first victim of censorship when it is banned in Madras. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nala Damayanti (Eugenio de Liguoro) [ADD] |
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| 1922 | ||||
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– Sisir Bhaduri and a group of lawyers found the Taj Mahal Film Company with the intention of producing adaptations of literary works. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – An entertainment Tax is levied in Calcutta. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1923 | ||||
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– Jamsetji Framji Madan dies, leaving his Madan Theatres to his five sons. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The government levies a 12.5 % entertainment tax in Bombay. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- Naresh Mitra directs Maanbhanjan, the first adaptation of the works of famed Bengali poet Rabindrahath Tagore, [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1926 | ||||
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– Prem Sanyas (Light of Asia) , a German-Indian co-production directed by Himansu Rai and Franz Osten becomes the first Indian film to make an impact overseas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Bulbule Paristan (The Nightingale from the Land of Fairies), the first Indian film directed by a woman, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Ardeshir Irani and Abdulallay Esoofally form Imperial Film in Mumbai. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Punjab Film Corporation is founded in Lahore. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1927 | ||||
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– A Cinematograph Committee is formed to censor politically objectionable subject matter from films and to preserve English morals and codes. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Indian Kinema Arts, predecessor of the New Theatre, is founded in Calcutta. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| India 1927: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Gun Sandari (Chandulal Jesangbhai) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Netaji Palkar (Vankudre Shantaram) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1928 | ||||
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Vigathakumaran, the first Malayalam film premieres in Trivandrum. The film was not a success, and its director, J. C. Daniel, never made another. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1929 | ||||
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– Kapal Kundala, directed by Priyanath N. Ganguly, becomes the first Indian film to achieve a ‘silver jubilee’ run of 25 weeks. Indira Devi and Prabodh Bose star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta becomes the first cinema in the East to be wired for sound. The first sound film screened there is Universal’s Melody of Love. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Prabhat Film Co (Kolhapur), Ranjit Movietone (Bombay), British Dominion Film Studios, Aurora Film Corporation and General Pictures Corporation (Madras) are all founded this year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1930 | ||||
| 13/9 - | Two short Indian films featuring synchronised sound are screened with an MGM talkie at Bombay’s Krishna Theatre. The first film is of a Khadi exhibition at Mandvi, the second that of a dance scene of Sulochana from the silent film Madhuri. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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– The first Indian film society, Punjab Cinema Art Society, is founded in Lahore. [MORE] [ADD] |