History Of Indian Cinema - By Vijay
Indian Cinema has its broad and unique domain of chronological study in the cinematic cultural journey. With the release of an epochal film "Raja Harishchandra " the journey of joy begins at movie making ground.The first feature film was shot by an Indian is Hanging Garden but more or less Dadasaheb Phalke is widely considered as the Father of Indian Cinema.
On 3rd May 1913 when Phalke released his Marathi silent film Raja Harishchandra audience felt a new kind of wave in their psyche, some places were selected for displaying movies and by the passage of time, many movie makers and producers like Madan Theater made many movies.
In 1919 Phalke's "Raja Harishchandra" was remade again silently and at that point of time the role of woman character was played by male actors, Dadasaheb Phalke's daughter was the first child star whom Phalke admitted in his film. Dadasaheb was the pioneer of intelligentsia people in cine - world. He has the comprehension of art direction, costumes, makeup, editing, light and a lot of props which was prevalent in contemporary film society.
If Dadasaheb is the father of Indian film then Ardeshir Irani is the father of Talkie.The release of Alam Ara, strata of cinema got acceleration in the form of sound. First ever talkie film which has an immense benchmark on the mental screen of cine-men. Master Bithhal and Jubeda starer "Alam Ara" created an affluent number of people who have their keen interest in this new world. At the period of Indian freedom movement whole world was politically engaged and Indian societal screen was on the verge of modulation which also brought about much noticeable change in cine-society.
Ashok Kumar starer Kismet was milestone depiction of early 20s social phenomena. K. L.Sahgal and Ashok Kumar were the leading figures of Indian Film actors.The age between 1950 and 1960 is the golden period of Hindi Cinema, filmmakers like Satyjeet Rey, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor are noticeable among all. Producers and Distributors like Madan Theater, L V Prasad, Guru Dutt, Mahboob Khan painted their colourful thought on the canvass of the film set. Musicians like Naushad, Shankar -Jai -Kishan, O P Nayyar composed their unforgettable soundtracks. In 1970, the genre of film interest was somehow changed, filmmaker Manmohan Desai has been called the maker of Masala Movie.
He assumed the world where there is nowhere poverty, beggar, drudgery and toil; people are in a new world forgetting their sadness.In the 70s, filmy personnel like Yas Chopra and Ramesh Shippy made Amitabh Bachchan as Superstar in Bollywood i.e Indian Film Industry. In this era Female figures like Meera Nair, Aparna Sen, Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Meena Kumari, Vyjyantimala raised artistically in their filmy journey. K Asif's Mughal-e Azam, Guru Dutt's Pyasa, Mahboob Khan's Mother India, Kamal Amrohi's Pakeeza, Yash Chopra's Deewar, Ramesh Shippy's Sholay,
Indian Cinema has its broad and unique domain of chronological study in the cinematic cultural journey. With the release of an epochal film "Raja Harishchandra " the journey of joy begins at movie making ground.The first feature film was shot by an Indian is Hanging Garden but more or less Dadasaheb Phalke is widely considered as the Father of Indian Cinema.
On 3rd May 1913 when Phalke released his Marathi silent film Raja Harishchandra audience felt a new kind of wave in their psyche, some places were selected for displaying movies and by the passage of time, many movie makers and producers like Madan Theater made many movies.
In 1919 Phalke's "Raja Harishchandra" was remade again silently and at that point of time the role of woman character was played by male actors, Dadasaheb Phalke's daughter was the first child star whom Phalke admitted in his film. Dadasaheb was the pioneer of intelligentsia people in cine - world. He has the comprehension of art direction, costumes, makeup, editing, light and a lot of props which was prevalent in contemporary film society.
If Dadasaheb is the father of Indian film then Ardeshir Irani is the father of Talkie.The release of Alam Ara, strata of cinema got acceleration in the form of sound. First ever talkie film which has an immense benchmark on the mental screen of cine-men. Master Bithhal and Jubeda starer "Alam Ara" created an affluent number of people who have their keen interest in this new world. At the period of Indian freedom movement whole world was politically engaged and Indian societal screen was on the verge of modulation which also brought about much noticeable change in cine-society.
Ashok Kumar starer Kismet was milestone depiction of early 20s social phenomena. K. L.Sahgal and Ashok Kumar were the leading figures of Indian Film actors.The age between 1950 and 1960 is the golden period of Hindi Cinema, filmmakers like Satyjeet Rey, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor are noticeable among all. Producers and Distributors like Madan Theater, L V Prasad, Guru Dutt, Mahboob Khan painted their colourful thought on the canvass of the film set. Musicians like Naushad, Shankar -Jai -Kishan, O P Nayyar composed their unforgettable soundtracks. In 1970, the genre of film interest was somehow changed, filmmaker Manmohan Desai has been called the maker of Masala Movie.
He assumed the world where there is nowhere poverty, beggar, drudgery and toil; people are in a new world forgetting their sadness.In the 70s, filmy personnel like Yas Chopra and Ramesh Shippy made Amitabh Bachchan as Superstar in Bollywood i.e Indian Film Industry. In this era Female figures like Meera Nair, Aparna Sen, Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Meena Kumari, Vyjyantimala raised artistically in their filmy journey. K Asif's Mughal-e Azam, Guru Dutt's Pyasa, Mahboob Khan's Mother India, Kamal Amrohi's Pakeeza, Yash Chopra's Deewar, Ramesh Shippy's Sholay,
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