FILMS IN INDIA

New delhi, 20 june (sunil kumar/VNI) Dadasaheb Phalke said . “I have to keep making films in my country so that it gets established as an industry at home.” l.

---The first full-length motion picture in India was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, Phalke is seen as the pioneer of the Indian film industry and a scholar of India's languages and culture. He employed elements from Sanskrit epics to produce his Raja Harishchandra(1913), a silent film in Marathi. The female characters in the film were played by male actors. Only one print of the film was made, for showing at the Coronation Cinematograph on 3 May 1913. It was a commercial success.