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 ...

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 ...

While many eyes have been on China’s exploding box office numbers of late – now the world’s second highest – there is an equally epic world of cinema right next door in India where just as many if not ...

On Dadasaheb Phalke’s 81st Memorial Day, his grandnephew Chandrashekhar Pusalkar recalled his dedication to Indian cinema, revealing that Phalke nearly lost his eyesight for his craft. Despite ...