Last year, Bollywood, as the Indian film industry is known, turned 100. Its first film, Raja Harishchandra, was a silent film released in 1913. This was seventeen years after the very first films ...

While Dadasaheb Phalke’s contributions to Indian cinema are revered today, the story of how he made India’s first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), nearly went untold on the big screen.

In 1913, director Dadasaheb (Dhundiraj Govind) Phalke released Raja Harishchandra, India’s first feature film. A century later, the University of Chicago is bringing together cinema experts and ...

Before Durgabai Kamat stepped into films, no Indian women appeared on screen. Acting in cinema was seen as taboo and morally questionable for women. All female characters in Raja Harishchandra (1913), ...

India's first ever silent feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made with Marathi language title cards. Over the past few decades, though, Marathi cinema lost its way, overshadowed by Hindi ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the inaugural World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) in Mumbai today (May 1). While addressing the illustrious guests, who included the who's who ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – The recently released song ‘Geejaga Hakki’ from Coke Studio Bharat, which centers around the themes of truth and justice, draws inspiration from various retellings of Raja ...