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Emergence and Development of Indian Art Cinema
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The Beginnings
On July 7, 1896, an agent who had brought equipment and films from
France first showed his moving pictures in Bombay. That was an important
day in the social and cultural history of the Indian people.
The first Indian-made feature film (3700 feet long) was released in 1913. It was made by Dadasaheb Phalke and was called Raja Harishchandra
Raja Harishchandra Story line
“ Based on a story from the Mahabharata it was a stirring film concerned with honour, sacrifice and mighty deeds.”
Advent of Sound
the introduction of sound made an immediate difference.
In 1931, India's first talkie, Alam Ara, was released, dubbed into Hindi and Urdu.
As the talkies emerged over the next decade, so too did a new series of issues.
The most prominent of these, of course, was
Language
Language markets alongside
there are considerations of regional identity, of the different places
that separately and together make up India.
The 1950s
Mehboob Khan's Andaz/Style (1949),
Story line of Andaz/Style
an upperclass love triangle founded on a tragic misunderstanding, draws on codes of psychological representation - hallucinations and dreams that feature strongly in 1940s Hollywood melodrama.
Mehboob's tendency to make a visual spectacle of his material, and his involvement with populist themes and issues make him a good example of popular cinema of the time
The Art Cinema
Satyajit Ray's world-famous debut, Pather Panchali (1955),
is based on many of the themes that
engaged contemporary popular film-makers
of the time, such as loss of social status,
economic injustice, up rootment, but sets
them within a naturalistic, realist frame
which put a special value on the Bengali
countryside, locating it as a place of
nostalgia, to which the urban and
individualist sensibility of its protagonist,
Apu, looked with longing.