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November 1898: Save Dada: Wrestling and Monkeys
The first film shot in India was made in 1897 by a colonist, and it was two years later before a native was to make a film in his homeland. This native was Harischandra Sakharan Bhatavdekar, popularly known as Save Dada, a 31-year-old portrait photographer from Maharastra. Bhatavdekar had owned a studio in Bombay since 1880, and was so entranced by the first film shows of the Lumiére agents that he ordered a Riley camera from London, for the not insubstantial sum of 21 guineas. Bhatvadekar's first film, The Wrestlers, was of a wrestling match between two well-known wrestlers, Pundalik Dada and Krishna Navi, at Bombay's Hanging Gardens, shot in November 1899.. He quickly followed this with a second film, Man and Monkey, showing the training of performing monkeys. Bhatvadekar's films were then sent to London for processing. [ADD]
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