Hindi Movies & films Resources
Dadasaheb Phalke was solely responsible for making the first silent Hindi Movie in the year 1913. This first movie consisted in all of four reels and the movie also consisted of Inter Titles in English and Hindi. This first Hindi Movie was called Raja Harischandra.
This silent movie very poignantly depicted the story of a benevolent king, who sacrificed his kingdom, family and material wealth, for upholding the ideals, which he cherished most. These ideals for which he sacrificed everything were namely truth and integrity – which are in fact the two rare qualities completely absent in our present day rulers and politicians.
The decade of the 1950s in the Hindi Movie Industry had been studded with films such as Raj Kapoor's Awara, Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin,Guru Dutt's Pyasa and Mehboob's Mother India. These movies won popular acclaim but at the same time they successfully raised very relevant and pertinent rural and urban issues.
These movies brought to the fore stories of exploitation in independent India. In fact these movies had succeeded in carving a distinct and lasting niche for themselves. There were neither labeled as 'art house' or as 'commercial' cinema.
In the late 1960’s 'Realism' was the distinctive hallmark of the Hindi Movie Industry. But somehow the films of this genre did not find wide acclaim and remained confined to a niche audience of viewers. These viewers were made up of sections within the urban educated elite.
The Hindi Movie industry is still meandering its way in aim of trying to find the right formula that would enable the box-office registers to ring loudly.
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