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Raja Harischandra
1913-DVD-15-Silent-India

Direction: D.G. Phalke Cast: D.D.Dabke, Salunke, Babaraya Phalke Screenplay: D.G. Phalke Cinematography: D.G. Phalke Production: Phalke Films The narrative is drawn from the Indian epic Mahabharata where the King sacrifices his kingdom to uphold his ideals of truth. The king accidentally blunders into the religious ceremonies being performed by Sage Vishwamitra and incurs the wrath of the sage. To atone himself, the king is banished. The king, queen and the prince endure a lot of hardships before Lord Shiva impressed by his integrity restores the dead prince to life and restores his regal glory.The sage reassures everyone that the whole episode was merely a test of the king's integrity.

Kaliya Mardan
1919-DVD-45-Silent-India Direction: D.G. Phalke Cast: Mandakini Phalke Screenplay: D.G. Phalke Cinematography: D.G. Phalke It begins with a marvelous prologue in which the child actress enacting Krishna The narrative of Krishna's childhood is then unfolded revealing his divine self. At the end the great underwater sequence shows Krishna subjugating the demon snake Kaliya followed by the ritual of aarti and celebration.

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Sant Tukaram Sant Tukaram

1936-35 mm-130-Marathi-Black And White-India

Director: Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal Cast: Vishnupant Pagnis, Gouri, Pandit Damle, Kusum Bhagwat, Bhagwat, Master Chhotu, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni, Shanta Mujumdar Screenplay: Shivaram Washikar Cinematographer: V. Avadhoot Editor: A.R. Shaikh Sound Designer: S. Damle Music Composer: Keshavrao Bhole Production Company: Prabhat Film Co. Festival / Awards: Special Recommendation - 5th Venice International Film Festival

At an apparent level, Sant Tukaram is a hagiography of Tukaram, the seventeenth century bhakti-poet of Maharashtra. However it does much more than merely tell the story of a saint. It discusses many issues pertaining to the tradition of bhakti - Tukarams striving towards a transcendental love for God is pitted against the simple devotion of his wife and her passionate love for the family. Salomalo, the rich brahmin, illustrates how religion can serve an individuals greed for fame and power. He is also the agent that provides the saint with constant worldly struggles, so necessary for a true devotee engaged in the pursuit of his God. Brahminical religion is made to enter into a dialogue with bhakti, through the person of Rameshwar Shastri. Scenes depicting spontaneous participation of the people, cutting across gender, class and caste, hint at the importance that bhakti had acquired in the nationalist period in pre-independent India when the film was made.

Directors Biography:
Vishnupant Govind Damle (14 October 1892-5 July 1945) was an Indian production designer, cinematographer, film director and sound engineer for Marathi films. His 1937 film Sant Tukaram was the first Indian film to be screened at an international film festival.[1] It won a "Special Recommendation" at the 5th Venice International Film Festival. S. Fattelal along with Damle worked in drama companies and Maharashtra Film company. He cranked camera for silent films of Prabhat. he was a very skillful artist. he had the creative ability of designing big settings and innovative drapery and costumes from films of Prabhat is a testimony of his skills.

Directors Filmography:
Sant Sakhu (1941) Sant Dnyaneshwar (1940) Gopal Krishna (1938) Sant Tukaram (1936)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Awara Awara
1951-35 mm-170-Hindi-Black And White-India

Director: Raj Kapoor Producer: Raj Kapoor Cast: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Prthiviraj Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Leela Chitnis Screenplay: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, V.P. Sathe Cinematographer: Radhu Karmarkar Music Composer: Shankar-Jaikishen Production Company: R.K. Films Festival / Awards: Cannes Film Festival (1953)

'Judge Raghunath married a young widow who was condemned by the society to remain a widow. Jagoo, a dacoit, whom the judge had once sent to prison kidnaps his wife with evil intensions but on learning that she is pregnant, leaves her and she returns to the judge after four days. Jagoos bad reputation and her absence from four days make the judge loose his justice and drives his wife on the eve of her delivery. She delivers a son on the road and Jagoo takes charge of the son to use him for revenge against the judge. The boy, Raj grows up, and is expelled from the school for being a shoe-shine boy and also separated from Rita, his girl-friend in the class. Raj soon becomes adept at crime and is sent to jail often. In course of time he meets Rita, now a young and attractive girl, who has become a lawyer and is staying with Judge Raghunath as his ward. They fall in love with each other. Judge, on knowing truth about Raj, tries to stop Rita from meeting him. Raj attempts to murder the judge after his mothers revelation of truth to him. During the trial he is defended by Rita, and is given 3 years sentence. Raj retains the affection for Rita and reclaims his lost parentage.

Directors Biography:
Ranbirraj Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards in India, and a two-time nominee for the Palme d'Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his films Awaara (1951) and Boot Polish (1954). His performance in Awaara was ranked as one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by Time magazine. His films were commercial successes that attracted worldwide audiences, particularly in Asia and Europe. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1971 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1987 for his contributions towards Indian cinema.

Directors Filmography:
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) Prem Rog (1982) Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978) Mera Naam Joker (1972) Shree 420 (1955) Barsat (1949) Aag (1948)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Song of the Little Road Pather Panchali

1955-35 mm-118-Bengali-Black And White-India

Director: Satyajit Ray Cast: Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Chunibala Devi, Tulsi Chakrabarti Screenplay: Satyajit Ray Cinematographer: Subrata Mitra Editor: Dulal Dutta Sound Designer: Bhupen Ghosh Music Composer: Ravi Shankar Production Designer: Bansi Chandragupta Festival / Awards: BAFTA Awards (1958) Cannes Film Festival (1956) National Board of Review, USA (1958) San Francisco International Film Festival (1957) National Award : Best Feature Film (1955) Berlin International Film Festival (1957)

Harihar Roy, a brahmin priest lives in the village of Nishchindipur, with his family, wife Sarbojaya, daughter Durga and an aged distant cousin Indir (widowed and rendered destitute at a very early age). Harihar Roy is very poor, partly because of his own impractical nature and literary ambitions and partly because of external economical factors bringing in rapid changes in the villages initiating large scale migration. A son Apu is born amidst this poverty. Apu and Durga play their childhood games and taste the complexities of the adult world as they grow up in the Bengal village, in the lap of an indifferent nature and its cycle of six seasons witnessing the three major recurring events in human-life birth - marriage - death.Two deaths occur a timely one that releases aunt Indir from a long life of abuse and deprivation, and another that snatches Durga away from her passionate attachment to life. Harihar, Sarbojaya and Apu leave the village and migrate to the `holy city of Varanasi.

Directors Biography:
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921-23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the few great masters of world cinema. Besides filmmaking, Ray also wrote stories and developed his own distinct style of writing. He is also known for his works on calligraphy and advertising. Ray was born in the city of kolkata, India into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and film critic. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.

Directors Filmography:
Charulata (1964) Devi (1961) Apur Sansar (1959) Jalsaphar (1958) The Apu Triology (1950-59) Aparajito (1956)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Director: Mehboob Khan Producer: Mehboob Khan Cast: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo, Kumkum, Mukri, Chandal, Azra, Master Sajjid, Sheela Naik Screenplay: Mehboob Khan, Wajahat Mirza, S. Ali Raza Cinematographer: Faredoon A. Irani Editor: Shamsudin Kadri Music Composer: Naushad Festival / Awards: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 5th National Film Awards All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Mother India Mother India

1957-35 mm-190-Hindi-Color-India

The village moneylender takes away all the meagre earnings as interest and Radha sees her husband gone and her children starving. The villanous moneylender tempts her to submit to his lust in return for a large sum of money. Two of her children die and the third is grievously ill. Radhas morals break for a moment but she steals herself and protects her chastity, which is the dearest possession of a woman. Soon the entire village notices, with admiration, Radhass gallant fight against misfortune and they become her followers. She is the acknowledged and respected leader of the village twenty years later. Her sons, Ramu and Birju, are now stalwart young men. Both love their mother deeply but Birju is afire with determination to take revenge on the moneylender in whose hands his mother has suffered so much. He decides to kidnap his daughter and kill him. He organises a gang of desperadoes and carries through his plan of revenge. Radha disapproves of her sons conduct and shoots him dead as he is carrying away the moneylenders daughter.

Directors Biography:
Mehboob Khan was born as Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan in Bilimora, Gujarat in Gandevi Taluka of Navsari District, Gujarat. Mehboob Khan was a pioneer, producer-director of Hindi cinema, best known for directing Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He set up his production company, Mehboob Productions, and later a film studio, the Mehboob Studios in Bandra, Mumbai in 1954.

Directors Filmography:
Son of India (1962) Amar (1954) Andaz (1949) Taqdeer (1943) Aurat (1940)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

The Pathetic Fallacy Ajantrik

1957-BRD-120-Bengali-Black and White-India

Director: Ritwik Ghatak Cast: Kali Bannerjee, Kajal Gupta, Shriman Deepak, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Keshto Mukherjee, Gangapada Basu, Satindra Bhattacharya, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jhurni, Anil Chatterjee, Seeta Mukherjee Screenplay: Ritwik Ghatak Cinematographer: Dinen Gupta Editor: Ramesh Joshi Music Composer: Ali Akbar Khan Production Company: L.B. Films

Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows episodes from his life in the industrial wasteland, delivering people from one place to another.

Directors Biography:
Ritwik Ghatak or Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (4 November 1925 6 February 1976) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker and script writer. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his fim Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.

Directors Filmography:
Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1974) Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) Subarnarekha (1962) Komal Gandhar (1961) Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) Bari Theke Paliye (1958) Nagarik (1952)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Director: Mani Kaul Cast: Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee Screenplay: Mani Kaul, Vijayadan Detha Festival / Awards: Berlin International Film Festival (1975) Filmfare Awards : Critics Award (1974) National Award : Best Director

Duwidha Duwidha
1973-35 mm-85-Hindi-Color-India

The enchanting story is derived from a Rajasthani folktale. A mischievous ghost wanting to enjoy a beautiful but lonely bride assumes the figure of an absent husband; the groom eventually returns home to both wife and spirit, and the whole community is perplexed. The filmmaker is not concerned so much with the conventional unfolding of this delicious story as with the processes, movement and textures of simple Indian life. The viewer is haunted not only by its elegant tale, but by its spellbinding imagery and hypnotic rhythms

Directors Biography:
Mani Kaul was born on 25December 1944. He graduated from the Film And Television Institute Of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. His first film Uski Roti (1969) has been described as One of the key films of the New Indian Cinema or the Indian New Wave. It marked a drastic departure from earlier Indian Cinema technique, form and narrative. He won the National Film Award for best direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later The National Film Award for his documentary film, Siddheshwari (1989).

Directors Filmography:
Dhrupad (1982) Satah Se Uthata Admi (1980) Ashad ka Ek Din (1971) Uski Roti (1970)

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Global Cinema 100 Years Of Indian Cinema

2012-35mm-104-Norwegian-Color-Norway 1975-35 mm-144-Hindi-Color-India

The Orheim Nights Company End Kompani Orheim Nishant

Director: Arild Andresen Shyam Benegal Producer: Yngve Sigve MohanSaether, J. Bijlani, FreniEndresen Variava Cast: Vebjorn Enger, Joner, Cecilie Mosli, Glenn Shabana Azmi, Kristoffer Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Andre Viste Amrish Boe, Eili Harboe, Henrik Mestad, Rolf Kristian Smita Patil, Puri Larsen Screenplay: Vijay Tendulkar Screenplay: Lars Gudmestad, Tore Renberg,Arild Andresen Cinematographer: Govind Nihalani Cinematographer: Philip Ogaard Editor: Bhanudas Divakar Editor: Vidar Flataukan Sound Designer: Hitendra Ghosh Sound Designer: Hugo Ekornes Music Composer: Vanraj Bhatia Music Composer: Hartberg Festival / Awards: Aslak Cannes Film Festival (1976) London Film Festival (1976) Costume Stina Lunde MelbourneDesigner: International Film Festival (1977) Chicago International Film Festival (1977) Production Designer: Ingeborg Kvamme Production Company: Motlys Film- og TV-prodution World Sale Address: NonStop Sales

A poor schoolmaster (Karnad) and his young wife (Azmi) come to a village dominated by a villainous family of zamindars, consisting of four brothers who abduct and rape his wife. The distraught schoolteacher, helped by an old priest (Dubey), finally succeeds in mobilising the villagers and they slaughter their oppressors.

Festival / Awards: Amanda Awards, Norway (2012) Goteborg International Film Festival : Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (2012) Films By The Sea, Vlissingen : Youth Jury Award (2012)

Directors Biography:
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934, Hyderabad) is an Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India. He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. On 8 August 2007, Benegal was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005. He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.

Directors Filmography:
Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1996) The Liverpool Goalie (2010) Trikaal (1985) Junoon (1978) Bhumika (1977) Manthan (1976) Charandas Chor (1975) Ankur (1974)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

The Ruins Khandhar

1983-BRD-108-Hindi-Color-India

Director: Mrinal Sen Producer: Jagadish, Pushpa Chokhani Cast: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Geeta Sen, Pankaj Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Sreela Majumdar, Rajen Tarafdar Screenplay: Mrinal Sen, Premendra Mitra Cinematographer: K.K. Mahajan Editor: Mrinmoy Chakraborty Music Composer: Bhaskar Chandavarkar Production Company: Shri Bharatlaxmi Pics Festival / Awards: Chicago International Film Festival : Best Film (1985) Filmfare Award : Best Screenplay (1985) National Film Award : Best Director, Best Actress (1984)

Three friends from the city visit some ruins where an aged mother (Gita Sen) and her daughter Jamini (Shabana Azmi) live. Mother awaits the arrival of a distant cousin to marry Jamini, but the man is already married and living in Calcutta. The photographer Subhash (Naseeruddin Shah) takes pity on the family and pretends to be the awaited suitor. The mother dies contented. When the threesome leave again, Jamini stays behind, facing a life of loneliness in the ruins.

Directors Biography:
Mrinal Sen (also spelled Mrinal Shen) is a Bengali Indian film maker. He was born on 14 may 1923, in the towm of faridpur now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the wellknown Scottish Church College and at the University Of Culcutta. Mrinal Sen made his first feature film, Raat Bhore, in 1955. his next film, Neel Akasher Neechey (Under the Blue Sky), earned him local recognition, while his third film, Bashey Shravan (the day when Rabindranath Tagore died) was his first film that gave him international explosure.

Directors Filmography:
Aamaar Bhuvan (2002) Mahaprithivi (1991) Ek Din Achanak (1989) Akaler Sandhane (1980) Ek Din Pratidin (1979)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Face to Face Mukhamukham

1984-35 mm-106-Malayalam-Color-India

Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan Producer: Ravi Cast: P.Ganga, Kaviyoor Ponnam, Karamana Janardanan, Thilakan, Ashokan Screenplay: Adoor Gopalakrishnan Cinematographer: Mankada Ravi Varma Editor: M. Mani Music Composer: M. B. Srinivasan Festival / Awards: FIPRESCI Prize (New Delhi) (1984) National Film Awards (India) (1984)

Sreedharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to go underground after his name was associated with the murder of the owner of a tile factory. He is considered to be dead by his party and they even erect a memorial for him. But he makes an unexpected comeback almost 10 years later, after the first communist ministry gained and lost power in Kerala and after the Communist Party of India has split. On his return, he spends his time sleeping and drinking. His come back is first a puzzle and then an embarrassment to his comrades and family. As the disappointment on his new face grows, he is found murdered. The film ends when both the communist parties jointly celebrate his martyrdom.

Directors Biography:
Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram (1972) pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Kerala. Most of his films go to festivals around the world, and are released in Kerala. All the eleven films he directed, from Swayamvaram to Oru Pennum Randaanum (2008), were screened at several international film festivals and won him several national and international awards. He won National Film Awards sixteen times, Kerala State Film Awards seventeen times and also won several international film awards. He won the prestigious British Film Institute award for Elippathayam (1981). Adoor received the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006. The Nation honoured Adoor for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema by awarding him the highest cinema award of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004.

Directors Filmography:
Kathapurushan (1995) Vidheyan (1993) Mathilukal (1990) Anantharam (1987) Elippathayam (1981) Swayamvaram (1972)

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100 Years Of Indian Cinema

Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Producer: Dungarpur Films Cast: P.K. Nair, Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Kumar Shahani, Naseeruddin Shah, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mahesh Bhatt, Rashid Irani, Shabana Azmi, Girish Kasaravalli, Ketan Mehta, Bala Nair, Santosh Sivan, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Suresh Chabria, Ramesh Sippy, Yash Chopra, Kamal Haasan, Sitara Devi, Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen, Rajkumar Hirani, K. Hariharan, Jaya Bachchan, Mrs. Surama Ghatak, Shaji N. Karun, Venu, Sriram Raghavan, Basu Chatterjee, H.N. Narahari Rao, Jahnu Barua, Ashutosh Gowariker, Balu Mahendra, Beena Nair, K. Ramachandra Babu, Kundan Shah Cinematography: Santosh Thundiyil, K.U. Mohanan, Avik Mukhopadhyay, P.S. Vinod, H.M. Ramachandra, R.V. Ramani, Vikas Sivaraman, Mahesh Aney, Kiran Deohans, Ranjan Palit, V.Gopinath Editor: Irene Dhar Malik

Celluloid Man Celluloid Man

2012-164-English, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali-Color, Black &White-India

Mr. Nairs fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films. Few are aware that 1700 silent films were made in India of which only 9 survive thanks to the efforts of Mr. Nair. He travelled to remote parts of India to collect and save cans of rare films. The fact that Dadasaheb Phalke is recognized today as the father of Indian cinema is Mr. Nairs doing. He was truly democratic as an archivist trying to save any film that he could get his hands on be it world cinema, Hindi popular films or regional Indian cinema. He even took world cinema to the villages of India. As Mr. Nair speaks, we see the history of Indian cinema unfold. What emerges is a portrait of a man so in love with cinema that even his family had to take a backseat to his obsession. Mr. Nair is not just the founder of the National Film Archive, but a living breathing museum of cinema. Even in retirement, he chooses to stay across the road from the Archive watching over his legacy. The fact that India has a cinematic heritage at all is the singlehanded achievement of this man.

Sound Design: Mohandas Music Composer: Ram Sampath Festival / Awards: Il Cinema Ritrovato (2012) Telluride Film Festival (2012) New York Film Festival (2012) Mumbai Film Festival (2012) Indian International Film Festival, Goa Kerla Film Festival.

Directors Biography:
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur (born 25 August 1969) is an Indian filmmaker and producer. He is the proprietor of Dungarpur Films, under whose banner he has directed over 400 commercials and produced television serials, corporate films, documentaries and short films. His latest project, which also happens to be his first feature length film, is the 2012 documentary Celluloid Man, a film about P.K. Nair, India's film archivist who established the National Film Archive of India.