1. History of Indian Cinema
Name: Pooja k Jumani
Paper no: 3 Mass media
Topic: History of Indian cinema
M.A. Part 2 Sem 4
Year 2012-13

2. History of Indian

3. •Raja Harishchandra (1913), by Dadasaheb
Phalke, was the first silent feature film made in
India.

4. •The first Indian sound film Ardeshir Irani’s
Alam Ara(1931) was a major commercial
success
•Both the movie and its music were widely
successful Including the hit song "De de
khuda ke naam per", which was also the
first song of the Indian cinema.

5. Kisan Kanya (1937) which was directed by
Moti B. Gidvani and produced by Ardeshir
Irani of Imperial Pictures.
It is largely remembered by the Indian
public on account of it being India's first
indigenously made coloure film.

7. Mother India is a 1957 Hindi epic
melodrama film, directed by Mehboob
Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil
Dutt, Rajendre Kumar, and Raaj Kumar
The title of the film was chosen to counter
American author Katherine Mayo's 1927
polemical book Mother India, which vilified Indian
culture.

8. Indian super Hit
movies

12. Dilip Barad
Department of English
Maharaja
kirishankumarshinhji
Bhavnagar University

13. Thank you