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Tag: Film History

“New Wave” in the cinema of Northeast India

10th February 201919th March 2022By Manoj Barpujari Film History 0 Comments

The subject of my deliberation may sound unfamiliar to you: ‘New wave’ in cinemas of Northeast India. Can you imagine that in a region that suffers from underdevelopment, infrastructural handicaps, there could be such a ‘new wave’? First let me explain the peculiarity of cinema produced in this region. The north-eastern part of India has […]

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Anglo Indian Cinema

10th February 201927th July 2019By Gautam Kaul Anglo Indian, Cinema, Film History 0 Comments

The term ‘Eurasian’ was coined sometime in the nineteenth century to originally mean any citizen living in India whose parentage was of British father and an Indian mother. The people to whom it applied weren’t quite pleased with it, so they changed it to ‘Anglo Indian’. In the century that followed, non-domiciled Britishers such as […]

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Cinema in Uttar Pradesh

26th January 201927th July 2019By Gautam Kaul Audience, Film History 0 Comments

Few would know that once upon a time Lucknow also featured on the map of India as a centre of film production. Cinema came to Lucknow via Calcutta. The railway line of the East India Railways (EIR) traversed from Howrah, to Allahabad, to Agra and ended at Ambala. On this route there was much traffic […]

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Jyotiprasad Agarwala and his film Joymoti (1935): a moving tale of struggle and sacrifice

26th January 201919th March 2022By A Film History 2 Comments

With the coming of sound in India in 1931, the rise of the major studios like Prabhat Film Company, Bombay Talkies, New Theatres – had played a significant role in the development of Indian Cinema. While in the eastern corner of India, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, trained at ufa, Berlin, and who submitted a film script The […]

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