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Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
It all began with a cross-dressing, wet Sari scene
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Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film Raja Harischandra :
was screened in Mumbai on 3 May, 1913.
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
It is a tale of a righteous Indian king who never told a lie.
One of the most famous scenes is the bathtub sequence where the king comes
to call on his wife Taramati.
tbc
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
She is in the tub with attendants and they are all drenched,
their saris and blouses clinging to their bodies -
but they are all in fact male actors dressed as women.!!
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
Raja Harishchandra, India's first silent film, was released 100 years ago
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Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
A kiss lasted four minutes - in the 1930s :-* :-*
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
Devika Rani locked lips with her real life husband on screen in the 1933 film, Karma.
It took four minutes.
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
Rani's kiss lasts four minutes
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Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
Indians buy 2.7 billion movie tickets annually, the highest in the world.
But average ticket prices are among the lowest in the world
so revenues are a fraction of Hollywood's.
Re: Bollywood : 100 years - ketchim - 05-03-2013
For a country that is obsessed with films, there are still very few cinema screens.
India has fewer than 13,000 screens
compared with nearly 40,000 screens in the US.