Skip to main content

History of Indian Cinema

 


History of Indian Cinema

             The cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India. Cinema is immensely popular in India, Every year more than 2,000 films get produced in various languages in India. Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi and Bangalore are the major centres of film production in India. As of 2013, India ranked first in terms of annual film output, followed by Nollywood, Hollywood and China. In 2012, India produced 1,602 feature films. The Indian film industry reached overall revenues of $1.86 billion (93 billion) in 2011. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion, the third largest in the world. In 2011, Indian cinema sold over 3.5 billion tickets worldwide, 900,000 more than Hollywood.


            One of the most flourishing cinema industries found today is in India. But the pioneers of the industry were actually foreigners. In 1896, the Lumiere brothers demonstrated the art of cinema when they screened Cinematography consisting of six short films to an enthusiastic audience in Bombay. The success of these films led to the screening of films by James B. Stewart and Ted Hughes. In 1897, Save Dada made two short films, but the fathers of Indian cinema were Dada Saheb Phalke who in 1913 made the first feature length silent film and Ardeshir Irani who in 1931 made India's first talking film. With the demise of the silent era and the advent of the talkies, the main source for inspiration for films came from mythological texts. Films were produced in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali. Mythology flourished more in South India where its social conservative morals equated film acting to prostitution. But by the 1930’s, word had spread around the world about the vibrant film industry in India and foreigners with stars in their eyes landed upon Bombay shores. One of these was Mary Evans, a young Australian girl who could do stunts. She could, with no effort, lift a man and throw him across the room. She wore Zorro-like masks and used a whip when necessary.

        https://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/history/history-of-indian-cinema

         In the above link shows the action of following details:

  1. Beginning of Bollywood
  2. Beginning of the Talkies
  3. Growth of Regional Films
  4. Birth of a New Era
  5. Bollywood – The Pioneer of Masala Movies

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

History of Chemistry

    History of Chemistry         Chemistry is a branch of science that has been around for a long time. In fact, chemistry is known to date back to as far as the prehistoric times. Due to the amount of time chemistry takes up on the timeline, the science is split into four general chronological categories. The four categories are: prehistoric times - beginning of the Christian era (black magic), beginning of the Christian era - end of 17th century (alchemy), end of 17th century - mid 19th century (traditional chemistry) and mid 19th century - present (modern chemistry).                                             The history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC, civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry. Examples include extractin...
Post a Comment
Read more

History of Languages

History of Languages It seems that academics and professionals are still not entirely sure of how old language is, but general consensus us that it has been with us since around 100 000 BC. As a result of this disagreement, it is even harder to accept which is the oldest surviving language. That is, one that is still in use in our modern world. Currently, about 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. They belong to different language families and their origins date back thousands of years ago. Researchers are still finding it difficult to determine which language is the oldest. However, the earliest written languages on record are the cuneiform script that was discovered in Mesopotamia that dates back to 8th millennium BC. The Sumerian script that started in the 3rd millennium BC was developed for funerary inscriptions because the Sumerians were concerned about their afterlife. Early History For centuries, humans have wondered about the origins of language and yet nobody is ...
Post a Comment
Read more