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03 May 2013 10:52 #133544
by ketchim
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film Raja Harischandra :
was screened in Mumbai on 3 May, 1913.
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03 May 2013 10:54 #133545
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It is a tale of a righteous Indian king who never told a lie.
One of the most famous scenes is the bathtub sequence where the king comes
to call on his wife Taramati.
tbc
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03 May 2013 10:55 #133546
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She is in the tub with attendants and they are all drenched,
their saris and blouses clinging to their bodies -
but they are all in fact male actors dressed as women.!!
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03 May 2013 10:57 #133549
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Devika Rani locked lips with her real life husband on screen in the 1933 film, Karma.
It took four minutes.
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03 May 2013 11:06 #133551
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Indians buy 2.7 billion movie tickets annually, the highest in the world.
But average ticket prices are among the lowest in the world
so revenues are a fraction of Hollywood's.
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03 May 2013 11:07 #133552
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For a country that is obsessed with films, there are still very few cinema screens.
India has fewer than 13,000 screens
compared with nearly 40,000 screens in the US.
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