Jamai raja movie2/13/2023 The almost 30-odd years of silent cinema, between the 1890s to the early 1930s, was one of the most unique and fascinating chapters in the history of film in India. The intertitles, or title cards, which flashed dialogues and description on screen, were written in one local language as well as English - and that’s the extent of language distinction. In the first part of ‘Sands of Time’ we begin with first ever Indian film (it’s not Raja Harishchandra), the first dance number on the Indian screens, we introduce you to Sulochna the movie star of the 1920s who some said was “paid more than even the governor of India”, and we travel right up till 1931 when Alam Ara, the first Indian ‘talkie’, was released.īefore the “talkies” came around, Indian films were not segregated by language. This series will look at the forgotten superstars of silent cinema, the story of Master Vithal - India’s Douglas Fairbanks, the wild days of Amitabh in Kolkata before he came to Bombay, how Dilip Kumar left Saira Banu for another woman in a momentary lapse of judgement, or how Shah Rukh Khan featured in a Dostoevsky adaptation in a Mani Kaul film, and much more. From this weekend, we’re starting a brand-new series - ‘Sands of Time’, in which Amborish Roychoudhury, writer and national film award winner, will take us on a journey back in time to the early years of Indian cinema.
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