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100 years of Indian cinema Revisiting Dadasaheb Phalkes Raja Harishchandra

100 years of Indian cinema Revisiting Dadasaheb Phalkes Raja Harishchandra

As Indian cinema celebrates 100 years of its glorious journey today, we look at the country’s first feature film made by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke aka Dadasaheb Phalke way back in 1913. We also had an exclusive chat with filmmaker Paresh Mokashi who portrayed the adventurous journey of the

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May 3 2013, 12:34 pm

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100 years of Indian cinema Top 10 films of the silent era

100 years of Indian cinema Top 10 films of the silent era

The first film made by an Indian was Raja Harishchandra, which was shown to the public on May 3, 1913. As we enter the 100th year of India cinema, we take a look at the silent era (from 1913 to 1930) of the movies and present to you our top 10 films from this period Raja

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April 30 2013, 2:41 pm

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Whistling Woods to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema with the screening of Bombay Talkies Sholay 3D and Raja Harishchandra

Whistling Woods to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema with the screening of Bombay Talkies Sholay 3D and Raja Harishchandra

The alumni of Subhash Ghai’s acting institute are all set to host a two-day film festival to earmark the centenary celebrations of Indian cinema including special screenings of Sholay 3D and Bombay Talkies, along with workshops, panel discussions and much more The unique annual

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May 9 2013, 6:21 pm

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Cannes to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema

Cannes to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema

Amitabh Bachchan’s The Great Gatsby will open the festival in May. Cineswami also tells us about the second Sundance Screenwriters Lab

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March 13 2013, 1:31 pm

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Zee Talkies celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with special calendar

Zee Talkies celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with special calendar

The yearly calendar is dedicated to the finest actors and the best films in Marathi cinema Marking 100 years of Indian cinema,

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February 19 2013, 10:22 am

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Indian cinema comes late to its own centenary party

Indian cinema comes late to its own centenary party

Was Dadasaheb Phalke the first one to make a film in India, or was it Dadasaheb Torne? It is a well known fact that Indian cinema is a late developer. We adopt cinematic trends or rather ape them from the West, years after the fact. With the honourable exception of

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May 3 2013, 5:05 pm

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Bombay Talkies movie review Fitting homage to Indian cinema

Bombay Talkies movie review Fitting homage to Indian cinema

Four short films helmed by Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee make the cut A girl on a railway station who croons Lata Mangeshkar songs with aching luminosity, a stoic gluttonous ostrich, a flirty cocky gay entertainment journalist, a closet actor, a little boy

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May 2 2013, 5:47 pm

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