Modern cinema

some believe that it should not hold the title of it being the first film because the cameraman was a British nationalist, who filmed the film in Britan. The film was also just a recording of a popular play. Dadasaheb Phalke, named the father of cinema produced the first full-length motion picture. He brought scholarly and cultural aspects to his films. His first film consisted of males playing the female roles. This marked the

HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA When we talk about history, we start with firsts. The first ever life form, the first man to walk the moon, the first ever film. Indian Cinema, in the past 70 years, has seen films in about 30 languages. So, it is safe to say that The Indian Cinema has seen many firsts. Let’s start with Marathi; because the first ever Indian film and a silent one at that was made in Marathi. Raja Harishchandra produced by Dadasaheb Phalke ,known as the Father of Indian Cinema, was made in the

to The Good Road (2013), the cinema of India, an extremely important part of our cultural identity celebrating its centenary this year. Has been working as an ambassador of India to a global audience since the day of its inception. In India, it is often seen that films made in Hindi targeted at a larger audience, commonly known as mainstream movies or Bollywood films, employ a different grammar of filmmaking than that is used in so-called sensible or parallel cinema while representing or portraying

THE PROBLEM Cinema is meant and believed to entertain, to take the viewer to a world that is starkly different from the real one, a world which provides escape from the daily grind of life. Cinema is a popular media of mass consumption which plays a key role in moulding opinions, constructing images and reinforcing dominant cultural values. Hindi cinema has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern India to an

Predating the modern influence of Honey Singh in Bollywood, Hollywood orchestra was apparent in the music styles chosen by directors and song writers of its time. Western orchestra was used to emphasize in Bollywood movies the different emotions characters were facing during specific scenes. Using jazz and orchestra music in Indian music with Hollywood western influence, blended to form and incorporated music style in Bollywood films. Jazz and orchestra music were given a new meaning in Bollywood

which can influence an artist’s project. In Philip Lutgendorf’s article, Is There An Indian Way of Filmmaking? (2006), he attempts to suggest how texts from the Indian cultural heritage could be used for the discourse of both Indian cinema as well as to the study of cinema itself, which justifies discussion. This essay will attempt to challenge Lutgendorf’s ideas within his article through Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away (2001) through the discussion of manga/animae origin, Japanese mythology,

Bazin refers to , constitutes the ground of what is known as “civilization”, and eventually art, and what translates into human’s metaphysical desire to perpetuate existance beyond death. The argument of immortality as a determination for ancient and modern art as well as civilastion is developed by Stephen Cave in his book “Seeking immortality” through four narrative paths, for which he establishes the following starting point: All living things seek to perpetuate themselves into the future, but humans

Indian cinema by increasing a larger target market throughout the whole world. Bollywood first getting its official name back in the 1970 's, became the largest movie producing industry topping the American Hollywood movie industry. But in comparison to other movie producing industries in the world, Bollywood notoriously has established its image for creating a traditional music blend in their movies and creating stories out of them. "Once playback made songs even more important to cinema, music

Introduction This essay explains the journey of Bollywood (Indian Film Industry) and how it has changed itself and its audience’s perspective on Hindi Cinema. Applying the key features from Dennis McQuail’s “Normative Theory”, the relationship between Bollywood and the audience, controlled by the censorship board will be explained; and how both, the Bollywood industry and Censor Board are responsible for bringing changes to each other in the terms of rules, regulations, audience’s attitudes and their

this article. And not only religion but also other areas like culture, rituals, customs, traditions, family, etc is shown through movies and all these are also as important as religion and which play a significant role in movies…   History of Indian Cinema The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003 alone). India accounts for 73% of movie admissions in the Asia-Pacific