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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, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others.
Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema. [1] He is considered one of the greatest personalities in recent Indian Cinema. He was the director of India's first sound film Alam Ara.
As Parsi theatre companies started travelling across North India, they employed native writers to churn out scripts in Hindustani language, mix of Hindi and Urdu. [ 9 ] Later Parsi plays "blended realism and fantasy, music and dance, narrative and spectacle, earthy dialogue and ingenuity of stage presentation, integrating them into a dramatic ...
This article lists Urdu-language films in order by year of production.Below films are mostly from Pakistan along with some Indian Urdu movies. For a full list of Pakistani films, including Punjabi language, Bengali language films and Urdu see List of Pakistani films.
Indian film stars popular in China included Raj Kapoor, Nargis, [197] and Mithun Chakraborty. [196] Hindi films declined significantly in popularity in China during the 1980s. [198] Films by Aamir Khan have recently been successful, [196] [199] and Lagaan was the first Indian film with a nationwide Chinese release in 2011.
Shama was a monthly Indian Urdu-language film and literary magazine published from 1939 to 1999. [1] Considered the world's biggest chain of Urdu-language magazines at the time, [2] the Shama group published several other famous magazines and digests including Sushama (Hindi), Khilauna, Dost aur Dosti, Bano, Sushmita, Mujrim, Doshi, A'inah, Shabistan and Rasia Kashidakari. [1]
She became a pioneer for fantasy cinema where she used trick photography to have early special effects. She was an actress at Kohinoor Studios and Imperial Studios, while writing, directing, producing, and acting in her own films at Fatma Films. Begum became the first female director of Indian cinema with her 1926 film, Bulbul-e-Paristan. [6]
The Deccani film industry, also known as Dollywood is the Deccani and Hyderabadi Urdu-language film industry based in Hyderabad, India. [1] The films have gained popularity not only in the Deccan region of India, but as well as other Hindi-Urdu speaking areas of the world. [ 2 ]