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INDIAN FILMS
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Indian films
command a huge domestic market and are popular abroad,
particularly in Asia, Africa and West Asia.
India leads the world in the output of films, with more than 800 Indian films produced annually. The major production of Indian movie centres are
Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Apart from popular entertainment through
commercial cinema, art cinema deals with a serious themes particularly
relevant to Indian society. There has been widespread recognition of Indian
artists and directors at film festivals in different parts of the world.
Movies arrived in India less than a year after the
Lumieres first exhibited their cinematographie in Paris. 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. Based on a story from the Mahabharata it was a
stirring film concerned with honour, sacrifice and mighty deeds. From then on
many "mythologicals" were made and took India by storm. Phalke's company alone
produced about a hundred films.
The First International Film Festival, held in Bombay in
1951, showed Italian works for the first time in India. The influence of
Neorealism can be seen in films such as Do Bigha Zamin/Two Measures of Land
(Bimal Roy, 1953), a portrait of father and son eking out a living in Calcutta
that strongly echoes the narrative of Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thief
(1948). Mehboob Khan's Andaz/Style (1949), 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
late Satyajit Ray was awarded many prestigious international awards including
the Oscar in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema. Documentary and short
film makers have also played an important role in spreading knowledge and
awareness among sections which are yet to get the benefits of modern
education. Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, imparts training in
film making and televisions programme production.
Hindi Movies made by the students
of this Institute have won many national and international awards in festivals
in India and abroad |
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