#Indian movie#

Nataraja Mudaliar established South India's first film studio in Madras. In South India, the first Telugu and Tamil bilingual talkie Kalidas was released on 31 October 1931. He was credited as the father of Telugu cinema. He was the first to build and own cinemas in Madras. From 1909, he was involved in many aspects of Indian cinema, travelling across Asia. Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu from Machilipatnam was an Indian artist and a film pioneer. He also produced Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra in 1917, a remake of Phalke's Raja Harishchandra (1913). Elphinstone merged into Madan Theatres Limited in 1919, which had brought many of Bengal's most popular literary works to the stage. He founded Elphinstone Bioscope Company in Calcutta. The first chain of Indian cinemas, Madan Theatre was owned by Parsi entrepreneur Jamshedji Framji Madan, who oversaw production of 10 films annually and distributed them throughout India beginning in 1902. The first silent film in Tamil, Keechaka Vadham was made by R. Only one print of the film was made, for showing at the Coronation Cinematograph on. The female characters in the film were played by male actors. He employed elements from Sanskrit epics to produce his Raja Harishchandra (1913), a silent film in Marathi.

The second full-length motion picture in India was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, Phalke is seen as the pioneer of the Indian film industry and a scholar of India's languages and culture. ДЄVM Studios in Chennai, India's oldest surviving film studio. Some have argued that Pundalik was not the first Indian film, because it was a photographic recording of a play, and because the cameraman was a British man named Johnson and the film was processed in London. The first Indian film released in India was Shree Pundalik, a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on at Coronation Cinematograph, Bombay. Bhatavdekar, showing a wrestling match at the Hanging Gardens in Bombay, was the first film to be shot by an Indian and the first Indian documentary film. With Stevenson's encouragement and camera Hiralal Sen, an Indian photographer, made a film of scenes from that show, namely The Flower of Persia (1898). In 1897, a film presentation by Professor Stevenson featured a stage show at Calcutta's Star Theatre. Following the screening of the LumiГЁre and Robert Paul moving pictures in London (1896), commercial cinematography became a worldwide sensation and by mid-1896 both LumiГЁre and Robert Paul films had been shown in Bombay. The history of cinema in India extends back to the beginning of the film era.

#Indian movie#

Major Indian enterprises in the film industry include AVM Productions, Sun Pictures, AGS Entertainment, Geetha Arts, Zee, Mythri Movie Makers, UTV, Suresh Productions, Eros International, Aascar Films and Yash Raj Films. Millions of Indians overseas watch Indian films, accounting for some 12% of revenues.

Films like Bahubali: The Beginning were dubbed in more than three languages, thus starting a Pan-India films movement. Its films have a following throughout Southern Asia and across Europe, North America, Asia, the Greater Middle East, Eastern Africa, China and elsewhere, reaching over 90 countries. By 2020, the combined revenue of all regional film industries has surpassed that of the Hindi film industry. Kannada film industry, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, and Bhojpuri film industry. Other prominent film industries include Malayalam film industry, In 2019, the Hindi film industry (Bollywood) represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by the Tamil film industry (Kollywood) and the Telugu film industry (Tollywood), which both together represent 26%. The overall revenue of Indian cinema reached US$2.7В billion in 2019. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion, the third largest in the world. As of 2018, India ranked first in terms of annual film output. Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar- Cuttack and Guwahati are the major centres of film production in India. Cinema is immensely popular in India: every year, more than 1800 films are produced collectively in the various languages of India. Cinema of India consists of films produced in India.