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This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
The first Indian film to have a worldwide release was from 1952 (Aan, directed by Mehboob Khan). In the 1950s, Indian films saw success in a handful of regions. At the time, the most significant market for Indian films was the Soviet Union, gaining considerable success and occasionally leading to Indian-Soviet co-productions. [1]
In India, the state of Kerala became the first in the nation to sell tickets for a state lottery, with each of the one rupee tickets (worth about 13 cents American) being eligible for the grand prize of 50,000 Indian rupees (equivalent to $6,700 U.S. dollars at the time) to be drawn on January 26, 1968.
While Indian films remain at the top of the domestic Indian box office, the market for Hollywood films has gradually been growing; [8] the market share of foreign films rose from 8% in 2014 up to 15% in 2015, [9] with Hollywood films representing 10% of the Indian market in 2016 [10] and 13% in 2017. [11]
January 31: Preity Zinta, Indian actress; February 3: Terry Chen, Canadian actor; February 4: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian-British singer and actress; February 5: Alison Hammond, English television personality and actress; February 7: Dan Green, American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter
Aadukalam (pronunciation ⓘ; transl. Playground) is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film [5] directed by Vetrimaran, produced by S. Kathiresan and distributed by Sun Pictures. The film stars Dhanush in the lead role, alongside Taapsee Pannu (in her Tamil debut), Kishore , V. I. S. Jayapalan , Naren Narayanan , and Murugadoss .
Enthiran (transl. Robot) is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film co-written and directed by S. Shankar. [12] It is the first instalment in the Enthiran film series . The film stars Rajinikanth in the main dual lead role as a scientist and the robot he created.