FIRST INDIAN MOVIE & DADA SAHEB PHALKE IN SILENT ERA
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As a mass media Film started with invention of moving camera invented by Lumiere Brothers in silence ambience. The story went a head from start to finish with its characters without inbuilt sound track in reel but back ground music and song were outsourced on the action and moving character .
Silent era of Indian films( India, Pakistan,Bangladesh) fascinated the native art hearts and they begun to make silent films. Unfortunately we do not have track record of most of the silent films. Between 1913 and 1931, silent movies were produced . Its number will surprise you.It is 1300 films. And it continued to be produced till 1934.Unfortunately, few of them have survived.
Legendry founder of CinemathequeFrancaiseMr.HenriLanglois had spoken once that the only way to write a history of cinema was to go to its ultimate source: the films…And that source is blood of life of history, is unfortunately unavailable. To the Indian film historians to write history of Indian cinema. So it is invisible past as far as history of cinema matters.
However, the invention of camera by French Lumieriebrothers had revolutionized the world and at particular moment of history, it was a complex technology.
Silent movie was a great cinema that showed the moving pictures of man, woman, animal, concert, political speech of politicians …advertisements and many more….This had created a curiosity, a madness, a magic among the global mass and that of India…
DadaSahebPhalke was greatly influenced by the style of painter Raja Ravi Verma of his films. Just as Verma brought Hindu mythology on canvas, Dada SahebPhalke brought it in motion picture.
Dada ShebPhalke could not find female cast and even a nautch girl( dance girl) was not ready to work as wife of King Raja Harishchandra. Finally Dada sahib found a boy looking like a tender girl for the wife of KingHarishchandra..Salunke was a cook and he became the famous and higly precious actor for male and female casts in the silent movie. The film had all male casts even for woman…
Dada Saheb’s wife’s sacrifice was immensely remembered. She cooked for 500 people, bathed the costumes….so much industrious and in diligent with devotion.
The film reel was 3700 feet long and roughly 40 minutes.
The film premiered on 21 April 1913 at the Olympia Theatre, Grant Road Bombay for a selective audience. Later on Dada Saheb’s film was first shown in Public at Bombay’s Coronation Cinema ,Girgaon..The film was proved to be supr-duper hit and it marked the beginning of the Indian Film Industry. Dada SahebPhalke earned a lot from the film, paving the way for him as producer...What a herculean work of a person like Dada sahebPhalke in a slave India !! That’s why, he is called “ Father of Indian Cinema”.
This silent movie had implanted the seed of Indian cinema and Raja Harishchandrais called first silent Indian Cinema or first Indian cinema.
Silent era of Indian films( India, Pakistan,Bangladesh) fascinated the native art hearts and they begun to make silent films. Unfortunately we do not have track record of most of the silent films. Between 1913 and 1931, silent movies were produced . Its number will surprise you.It is 1300 films. And it continued to be produced till 1934.Unfortunately, few of them have survived.
Legendry founder of CinemathequeFrancaiseMr.HenriLanglois had spoken once that the only way to write a history of cinema was to go to its ultimate source: the films…And that source is blood of life of history, is unfortunately unavailable. To the Indian film historians to write history of Indian cinema. So it is invisible past as far as history of cinema matters.
However, the invention of camera by French Lumieriebrothers had revolutionized the world and at particular moment of history, it was a complex technology.
Silent movie was a great cinema that showed the moving pictures of man, woman, animal, concert, political speech of politicians …advertisements and many more….This had created a curiosity, a madness, a magic among the global mass and that of India…
DadaSahebPhalke was greatly influenced by the style of painter Raja Ravi Verma of his films. Just as Verma brought Hindu mythology on canvas, Dada SahebPhalke brought it in motion picture.
Dada ShebPhalke could not find female cast and even a nautch girl( dance girl) was not ready to work as wife of King Raja Harishchandra. Finally Dada sahib found a boy looking like a tender girl for the wife of KingHarishchandra..Salunke was a cook and he became the famous and higly precious actor for male and female casts in the silent movie. The film had all male casts even for woman…
Dada Saheb’s wife’s sacrifice was immensely remembered. She cooked for 500 people, bathed the costumes….so much industrious and in diligent with devotion.
The film reel was 3700 feet long and roughly 40 minutes.
The film premiered on 21 April 1913 at the Olympia Theatre, Grant Road Bombay for a selective audience. Later on Dada Saheb’s film was first shown in Public at Bombay’s Coronation Cinema ,Girgaon..The film was proved to be supr-duper hit and it marked the beginning of the Indian Film Industry. Dada SahebPhalke earned a lot from the film, paving the way for him as producer...What a herculean work of a person like Dada sahebPhalke in a slave India !! That’s why, he is called “ Father of Indian Cinema”.
This silent movie had implanted the seed of Indian cinema and Raja Harishchandrais called first silent Indian Cinema or first Indian cinema.