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 ...

MUMBAI, Nov 5 (Reuters Life!) - When Dhundiraj Govind Phalke decided to make a movie in 1911, he faced ridicule and a severe shortage of funds. Undeterred, he sold most of his belongings to create ...

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 ...

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 ...