The realm of Indian cinema's silent era, though devoid of spoken dialogue, was far from quiet in its impact and innovation. Emerging in the early 20th century, these visual narratives laid the crucial ...

Last year, Bollywood, as the Indian film industry is known, turned 100. Its first film, Raja Harishchandra, was a silent film released in 1913. This was seventeen years after the very first films ...

While Dadasaheb Phalke’s contributions to Indian cinema are revered today, the story of how he made India’s first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), nearly went untold on the big screen.

In 1913, director Dadasaheb (Dhundiraj Govind) Phalke released Raja Harishchandra, India’s first feature film. A century later, the University of Chicago is bringing together cinema experts and ...

WHEN Dada Phalke, India’s pioneer film director, cameraman, set-designer, make-up man, and one-man studio, first translated and produced the well-known Indian legend of Raja Harishchandra in 1913, he ...

India's first ever silent feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made with Marathi language title cards. Over the past few decades, though, Marathi cinema lost its way, overshadowed by Hindi ...