HISTORY OF INDIAN CINEMA
Cinema in India India was one of the largest and oldest film industries in the World. When Lumiere brothers invented cinema in the last decade of the 19th century, they did not quite realise the fact that their invention would, in years to come, entertain millions across the world in an unprecedented manner. India may have lagged behind other countries in many fields, but the maintained near parity in the field of cinema, only 7 months after its inauguration (premier show) in France, Lumiere brothers films were shown in Bombay for the first time on 7th July, 1896. In 1899, Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar made a film on wrestling match in Bombay. In 1901, Bhatwadekar made the first news reel. The honour of making the first feature film goes to Dadasaheb (Dhundiraj Govind) Phalke, who made the first film Raja Harishchandra in 1913. Indian cinema has thus completed about a 100 years and feature films have completed a span of more than 80 years. FACTS ABOUT INDIAN CINEMA