Write an essay on the centenary of indian feature film.
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Bollywood or the page 3 industry is a world known yet unknown to us. A whole new world that has accepted people with open arms marked its beginning in 1913 when a small town photographer from Maharashtra got inspired by a movie about the Life of Jesus and produced FIRST full-length INDIAN FEATURE FILM- “RAJA HARISHCHANDRA”.
This small town guy is today’s big Daddy of this cinema world and the name is “Govind Phalke”. The trend and concepts of Filmmaking today are completely different from that of 1913. The first film RAJA HARISHCHANDRA was based on the story of a king HARISHCHANDRA as the title itself suggests, who sacrificed his kingdom, wife, and son in order to fulfil a promise he once made to a sage named Vishwamitra.
The Epic revolved around the protagonist and his family and showed the problems faced by them. At that time male actors played the female characters by shaving off their moustaches to make it look
more realistic but as the time changed, the titles, the storylines and the concepts related to movie showed a remarkable change. Bollywood’s journey of transformation can easily be shown through the adaptations that industry has made.
From RAJA HARISHCHANDRA to MERA NAAM JOKER, BOBBY and SHOLAY to MUQADDAR KA SIKANDAR AND DON film industry have completely changed.