Indian Film History

Topic	Movie	Year	Language	Director	Producer	Starring	Specifications
Cinema Show	Marvel of The Century	7th July 1896	Description: It carried details of the “Living Photographic pictures in life-size reproductions and was arranged by the agents of two French brothers, Louis and August Lumiere, pioneers of the Cinematography in France, at the Watson Hotel in Bombay, also Advertised on same day in “Times of India”.
Bioscope	In 1898, Prof. Stevenson brings “first Bioscope” to Calcutta at the Star Theatre. “Panorama of Calcutta”- an early Indian coverage by foreign cameramen.
Short Film	The Flower of Persia	1898	Bengali	Harilal Sen	Harilal Sen		He created India's first Advertising Films & quite possibly India's first political film. A fire in 1917 destroyed all of his films.
Reality Film	The Wrestlers	1899	-	Harishchandra  Shankaaram Bhatavdekar	H. S. Bhatavdekar	Wrestler Match  between  Pundalik & Krishna Nhavi, which was specially arranged at the Hanging Gardens in Bombay	He is the first Indian to handle Cine Camera from London at a price of 21 guineas and made a topical in 1897. His later films also were all reality films. He is not known to have made any long duration "feature films".
Documentary Film	Sir Wrangler Mr. R. P. Paranjpe	1902	-	H. S. Bhatavdekar	H. S. Bhatavdekar		It is on Dr. R P Paranjpe in Mumbai when he returned as the first Indian Wrangler of Cambridge University.
Theatrical Film	Pundalik	18 May 1912		N. G. Chitre, P.R. Tipnis,  Ramchandra Gopal Torney	Notes: Shreepad Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group of Bombay, was performing a theatre play “Pundalik” during 1911 in Bombay. Narayan Govind Chitre alias Nana Bhai Chita of India Press, Bombay sought help from R.P. Tipnis, Manager of Corontion Cinematograph, and decided to picturise the stageplay Pundalik. They took R.G. Torney alias Dada Saheb Torney, along with them to direct the proposed film. M/s Bourne and Shepherd, a British concern, took keen interest in the venture and joined hands with the promoters by providing them a cameraman, Johnson to shoot the film at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay. The film also named “PUNDALIK” was exhibited on May 18, 1912 at Coronation Cinematography, Bombay.
Full Length Film	Raja Harish Chandra	3rd May 1913	Marathi Silent Film	Dada Saheb Phalke	Dada Saheb Phalke	D.D. Dabke, P.G. Sane	The film had an all-male cast, so the men played all the female roles; the film reel was 3700 feet long, roughly 40 minutes.
Talkie Movie	Alam Ara	14th Mar 1931	Hindi	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor	It was shot with the Tanar single-system camera, which recorded sound directly onto the film.
Color Movie	Kisan Kanya	1937	Hindi	Moti B Gidwani	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Padma Devi, Jillo	V. Shantaram had earlier produced a Marathi film Sairandhri (1933) which had scenes in color. However, the film was processed and printed in Germany
Cinema Scope Black & White	Khaagaz ke Phool	1959	Hindi	Guru Dutt	Guru Dutt	Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Baby Naaz, Mahmood, Johnny Walker	The film's music was composed by S. D. Burman. In the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll, Khaagaz Ke Phool was ranked at #160 among the greatest films of all time.
Cinema Scope Color*	Pyar ki Pyaas	1961	Hindi	Mahesh Kaul	Anupam Chitra	Shreekant, Nishi, Manmohan Krishna, David Abraham	Music by Vasant Desai
3D Film	My Dear Kuttichathan	1984	Malayalam	Jijo Punnoose	Navodaya Appachan	Urmila Matondkar, Dalip Tahil, Satish Kaushik, Shakti Kapoor.	Its gross profit is 2.2 billion. Dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan also dubbed in Telugu & Tamil. Music director Ilayaraja
Film Certified	Orphans Of The Storm	1920 (US Film)	Silent English intertitles	D W Griffith	D W Griffith	Gish Sisters	This film underwent censor cuts due to Indian Censorship Act 1918.
Banned Film	Bhakta Vidur	1921	Silent	Kanjibhai Rathod	Dwarkadas Sampat’s Kohinoor Film Company	Dwarkadas Sampat, Maneklal Patel & Homi Master	Banned in Karachi & Madras.
Women on Screen	Mohini Bhasmasur	1913	Silent	Dada Saheb Phalke	Dada Saheb Phalke	Durgabhai & her daughter Kamalabhai Ghokhle	It is Dadasaheb’s Second film.
70MM Film	Around The World	1967	Hindi	Pachhi	Pachhi	Raj Kapoor, Rajshree, Ameeta, Om Prakash, Mehmood, Pran, Prem Chopra	It is made using the blow-up method with stereophonic sounds. G P Sippy's Sholay (1975) was shot in 70-mm format along with four-track stereo phone. Music Director: Shankar Jaikishan
Golden Jubilee Film	Sant Tukaram	1936	Marathi	Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal	Prabhat’s Prabhat Film Company	Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri & B. Nandrekar	It ran over a year.
Box Office Hit	Lanka Dahan	1917	Silent	Dada Saheb Phalke	Dada Saheb Phalke	Anna Salunke, Ganpat G. Shinde, D.D. Dabke,  Mandakini Phalke	It ran for 23 weeks in Bombay. It is on record that the money collected at the counters had to be transported in bullock carts with armed guards!
‘A’ Certified Film	Social Evil	1929	Document Drama	-	-	-	To give guidance to ignorant youth about sexual problems. It was the first film given the "For Adults Only" A certificate.
Dual Role	Lanka Dahan	1917	Silent	Dada Saheb Phalke	Dada Saheb Phalke	Anna Salunke, Ganpat G. Shinde, D.D. Dabke,  Mandakini Phalke	Anna Salunke played both Rama & Sita. It is 5th movie of Dada Saheb Phalke.
Song	Alam Ara	14th Mar 1931	Hindi	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor	"De De Khuda Ke Naam Par Pyare" was sung by W M Khan
Music Directors	Alam Ara	14th Mar 1931	Hindi	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Ardeshir Marwan Irani	Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor	Ferojshah M  Mistri and B Irani composed music for seven songs
English Song	Karma	1933	Hindi/ English	J.L. Freer-Hunt	Himanshu Rai	Himanshu Rai, Devika Rani	"Now The Moon Her Light Has Shed" sung by Devika Rani.  During the screening of "KARMA", Devika Rani was honoured by an invitation of the B.B.C. at London to act in the first television broadcast in Britain which was relayed throughout the country. She was also chosen to inaugurate the first B.B.C. broadcast on the short wave length to India.
Songless Film	Naujawan	1937	Hindi	Aspi Irani	J B H Wadia	Husn Banu & Hansa Wadkar	Did not have any songs as it was a fast paced thriller.
Horror Film	Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche	1972	Hindi	Tulsi Ramsay	Ramsay Brothers	Surendra Kumar, Shobha, Helen
Digital Film	Maya	2001	Hindi	Digvijay Singh	Digvijay Singh & others	Anant Nag, Mita Vasisht, Nitya Shetty, Mukesh Bhatt	This is perhaps not really a Bollywood movie, but it's in Hindi

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