Love And Friendship That Never Went Away
The
Indian
film industry with
Bollywood at the center,
produce more features annually
970 in the year 2005
than any other in the
world
Some Bollywood Films
1913 Rajah Harischandra, First Indian Moving Film
1929 Foundation of Bombay Film Studio
1930 Ranjit Movietone in Bombay
1935 The most successful film Devdas
1950 The next significant phase of Hindi Cinema
Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, and Guru Dutt came to cinema
Some Successful Films
1951, The Vagabond
1955, Shri 420
1957, Mother India
1960, Mughal-e-Azam
My name is Bo. And I am from Calcutta. I am here not to present myself in this platform, but I will tell something more about Bollywood and Indian film culture. India has one of the oldest film industries in the world. Though the first film advertisement in India appeared in the Times of India on 7 July 1896, inviting people to witness the Lumiere Brothers' moving pictures (of Paris), "the wonder of the world", it was not until early 1913 that an Indian film received a public screening. Rajah Harischandra was an extraordinary commercial success.
Some chronological data on Bollywood film industry: [...to be continue]
