Films has become part of everyone daily life and its even breed & butter to many across the world. It's one of the medium which doesn't poses any regional differences or has language barrier and all matters to it is entertaining audiences for couple of hours. Most of yous enjoy films but don't actually know where films started, when it entered India, here is little information about it folks.
The first Indian movie released in India was 'Shree Pundalik' a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on 18 May 1912 at 'Coronation Cinematograph', Mumbai. The first full-length motion picture in India was 'Raja Harishchandra' in 1913, a silent film in Marathi.
It's not fair to bore you with history of cinema in single article, so we will let you know about first color film which is made in India. Kisan Kanya was the first color film made in India was in the year 1937, although the trend of color films began very late. The film was produced by Imperial Film Co and was directed by Moti B. Gidwani. The music of the film was composed by Ram Gopal Pandey.
The film had 10 songs, which were released by Gramophone Records. The storyline of the film featured an exploitative landlord and a good peasant Ramu who is accused of murdering the landlord. The film was colored using the Cinecolour process imported by Imperial Film Co. Kisan Kanya had a run time of 137 minutes and its main star cast included Padmadevi, Jillo, Ghulam Mohammed, Nissar, Syed Ahmed, and Gani.
Following India's independence, the period from the late 1940s to the 1960s are regarded by film historians as the 'Golden Age' of Indian cinema. APHerald will unfold many interesting things about Indian cinema in days to come, stay tuned folks.
