Regional Cinema in India

  The first feature film to be released in Bengal was J.F.Madan’s ‘Satyabadi Raja Harishchandra’ (1917), produced by the Elphinstone Bioscope Company. In Madras, Nataraja Mudaliar made ‘Keechaka Vadham’ (1919), which was the first silent feature film of South...

Bengali Cinema

  Bengal’s first feature film was Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra, which was made by J.F.Madan in March 1917. Soon many good films were produced, which include Madan Theatre’s Nala Damayanti (1921), Dhruva Charitra, Shivratri and a comedy called Tehmuras and...
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