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Origins• First motion picture was exhibited in
India, in Bombay (Mumbai), in 1896 by Lumiere Brothers (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).
• First Indian motion picture was The
Flower of Persia (Dr. Hira Lal) in 1898.
• First full-length feature film Raja Harishchandra (Dr. Dada Saheb Phalke) was made in 1913.
• Recently a film (Hraishchandrachi factory) was made on the making of this film and the life of Dada Saheb Phalke.
Song-dance-drama• First film with sound Alam Ara (Dr. Ardeshir
Irani) was made in 1931.
• It had 7 songs and was movie adaptation of a successful play in Parsi Theatre.
• Classical Theatre tradition (Natyashastra)
• Religious theatre (Ramlila)
• Secular Theatre (Parsi)
• On average about 200 films were being produced in India by 1930s in eight major languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malyalam and Assamese.
• Today on average 1000 films are made every year.
Narrative• Melodrama
• Song and dance (ballad)
• Family
• Love story (Laila-manju troupe)
Early Genres
• Mythological cinema• Social cinema• Historical cinema
New Genres• Gangster movies• Diaspora movies
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