1. History of Indian cinema
Pre-cinema age

2. Pre-cinema age

3. Story telling
• Telling stories using hand-drawn tableaux
images in scroll painting with accompanying
live sound have been an age old Indian
tradition.
• Stories mostly on tales of gods and goddesses
and then movement of painted glass slides in
a lantern which created illusions of
movement.

4. Lumire brothers first public showing at
Mumbai’s Watson Hotel

5. July 7 1896
• First showing by Lumire brothers did not see
people running away from the images of train
moving towards them as they did elsewhere.
• The Indians had seen the painted glass slides
before so viewers took experience of moving
trains as something already familiar with

6. Indian traditional art
• The characteristic enthusiasm for inserting
song and dance sequences in Indian cinema
even today is because of it’s strong influence
of traditional arts, music, dance and popular
theatre on the cinema movement

7. Regional Cinema:
The fist film in Southern India was
made by R Nataraja Mudaliar

8. Indian Cinema starts talking (Alam Ara
produced by Ardeshir Irani)
• In early thirties, the silent Indian cinema
began to talk, sing and dance and first release
was on March 14 1931
• Mumbai became the hub of the Indian
industry having a number of self-contained
productions units

9. conventions, standards and categories
Exploitation, poor quality,
pornography are a legitimate part of
Indian movies

10. The Golden Fifties

11. • The fight for independence, famines, changing
social mores, global fight against fascism all
contributed to the learning in which the
directors grew up
• 1950s saw the raise of directors like Mehboob,
Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor who
entered the film industry during the 1930s
and 40s

12. Parallel Cinema
The 1970s saw a decline in parallel
cinema