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Early development of modern Hindi theatre can be traced to the work of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), a theatre actor, director, manager, and playwright based in Varanasi (Banaras), who is also the father of modern Hindi literature as in his short life of 35 years, he edited two magazines, Kavi vachan Sudha and Harishchandra chandrika, wrote numerous volumes of verse in Braj bhasa ...
The British believed that the Indian actors were mystical creatures. They believed they brought them luck and prosperity. The emergent modern Indian theater, which is also referred to as Native theatre, features a theatrical approach that has been viewed as an intersection of Indian social space with Western theater formats and conventions. [31]
The Indian film industry is the second largest in the world (1200 movies released in the year 2002). Each of the larger jrods supports its own film industry: Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia. The Hindi/Urdu film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is called Bollywood (a melding of Hollywood and Bombay).
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. [8] [9] Indian cinema is made up of various film industries, each focused on producing films in a specific language, such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others.
[3] [4] [5] In 2022, Telugu cinema represented 20% of Indian box office revenue, followed by Tamil representing 14%, Kannada representing 5%, and Malayalam representing 8%. [6] As of 2022, the combined revenue of South Indian film industries has surpassed that of the Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry . [7] [8]
This category is about organisations, directors, actors, practitioners, playwrights and plays in Hindi theatre. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu Kaama Tantra (Hindi), Kaama (Tamil) Kama: Ashok Kumar: 2001 English, Hindi, Tamil Little John: Singeetam Srinivasa Rao: 2009/2012 Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil Ajantha: Rajappa Ravishankar Additional Telugu version unreleased 2010 Kannada, Tamil, Telugu Bombat Car (Kannada), Kutti Pisasu (Tamil), Cara Majaka: Rama Narayanan: 2012
Tamil-language plays (2 P) Telugu-language plays (6 P) U. Urdu-language plays (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Indian plays" The following 110 pages are in this ...