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	Cinema of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian film industry is the largest in the world (1200 movies released in the year 2002).
		As Western audiences for Indian cinema grow, Western producers are anxious to take their cut of the profits and the audience.
		Indian cinema is also influencing the English and American musical; A.R. Rahman, India's star filmi composer, was recruited for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, and a musical version of Hum Aapke Hain Koun played in London's West End.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_India (1175 words)

	Notes: Indian Popular Cinema
		In learning more about Indian cinema, I was looking for a book that gave insight into the various devices it uses, an explanation of its relation to Indian culture, an introduction to some of its major figures, or at least an overview of its history.
		The six influences of Indian cinema from the first chapter (17) are discussed yet again in chapter six (94), yet there seems to be no substantial reason (other than to give more content to another chapter) to go over the same material, resulting in two discussions that would greatly benefit from combining and restructuring.
		If you already know that Indian movies contain a lot of singing and dances, are usually in Hindi but are sometimes in other languages, and that they reflect Indian culture in their portrayal of women, living conditions, and religious differences, and you want a bit more insight, maybe you should pass on this one.
	www.garretwilson.com /books/indianpopularcinema.html (894 words)

	Bollywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian audiences expect full value for their money, with a good entertainer generally referred to as paisa vasool, (literally, "money's worth").
		In modern films, Indian dance elements often blend with Western dance styles (as seen on MTV or in Broadway musicals), though it is not unusual to see Western pop and pure classical dance numbers side by side in the same film.
		Indian banks were forbidden to lend money to film productions, but this ban has been lifted recently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bollywood (2628 words)

	Rey Chow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Although Indian cinema continues to change and evolve, reflecting new trends in gender relations, at least in very traditional Indian cinema women who live by these traditional norms are portrayed as happy and ethical.
		She must be consistent with traditional Indian roles by honoring the family and depending on the husband.
		The courtesan is outside the normal realm of Indian womanhood in that she is a type of prostitute or dancing girl.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Film.html (807 words)

	Bollywood History - History of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first Indian talkie Alam Ara produced by the Imperial film company and directed by Ardershir Irani was released on March 14, 1931 at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay; The talkie had brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry.
		The thirties is recognised as the decade of social protests in the history of Indian Cinema.
		It is a cinema of social significance and artistic sincerity, presenting a modern, humanist perspective more durable than the fantasy world of the popular cinema.
	tamanbollywood.singcat.com /artikel/bolly_history_english.shtml (1752 words)

	Malayalam cinema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malayalam cinema, or movies in Malayalam language, forms a significant component of the Cinema of India, both as a form of art and as mass medium.
		Though not as widely popular as Bollywood, during the past half century, Malayalam cinema has produced some of the best works in the field of Indian cinema.
		The Malayalam cinema of this short but beautiful period is a culmination of the malayali ethos and south Indian life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malayalam_cinema (1045 words)

	History of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The strong influence of its traditional arts, music, dance and popular theatre on the cinema movement in India in its early days, is probable responsible for its characteristic enthusiasm for inserting song and dance sequences in Indian cinema, even till today.
		Central in Phalke's career as a filmmaker was his fervent belief in the nationalistic philosophy of swadeshi, which advocated that Indians should take charge of their own economy in the perspective of future Independence.
		¦ Indian Parallel Cinema ¦ History of Malayalam Cinema ¦
	www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /his_Indian_cinema.html (742 words)

	Ritwik Ghatak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cinema still seems to be the ideal medium for this because I can reach umpteen billions once the work is done.
		Unable to adjust himself to official protocols and rigid routines Ritwik left early, but not before he left his impression on a group of students who were later to bring the New Wave in Indian Cinema in the seventies and eighties.
		The occasional echo of classical Soviet cinema is there, but this doesn't prevent him from being a class by himself." - Satyajit Ray wrote in a foreward to a collection of Ritwik's articles on cinema titled `Cinema and I'.
	www.onmag.com /ritwik.htm (1815 words)

	INDIAN MIRROR - ARTS - Cinema, architecture, sculpture, paintings, dance, music, literature
		Cinema is only one century old, but it has emerged as the most powerful influence on an Indians' emotions.
		Kamala Hassan is an original and hence he finds a place in any survey on the history of Indian cinema.
		It was a landmark in the history of Indian cinema.
	www.indianmirror.com /arts/arts6.html (1447 words)

	indiatml4
		Gandhi was again jailed, and the Indian Nationalist Movement revived, as civil disobedience, riots, demonstrations, and widespread disorder resulted in 27,000 Indian nationalists sentenced to prison terms.
		Indian resistance to rule of the British Raj intensified; Gandhi, Nehru, and 1000s of supporters were imprisoned, and the Indian National Congress was outlawed.
		Indian and Pakistani authorities brought the strife under control during October, but the shift of populations in the Punjab and other border areas continued until the end of the year.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/indiatml/indiatml4.htm (2973 words)

	Rutgers University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As the largest producer of films in the world, Indian cinema is both a major industry and a distinctive art form that permeates daily life in that country and shapes emerging global cultures elsewhere.
		While much has been written on the history of Indian cinema, its iconography and aesthetics have yet to be analyzed as reflections of national and cultural identities.
		Divia Patel is a curatorial assistant in the Indian and South-East Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
	rutgerspress.rutgers.edu /acatalog/__Cinema_India_833.html (325 words)

	American Indian Film Institute :: Indian Cinema Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Indian Cinema Entertainment [ICE] our quarterly journal of Native American Cinematic Arts is an educational resource, audience deveolpment tool, and economic stimulus for sales and distribution of Indian media, and also promotes Indian talent to the media industry.
		The 26th annual American Indian Film Festival is the premiere Native film festival, proudly rooted in the American Indian community, and that enduring theme continued at Saturday night's gathering.
		He was educated at the University of Washington in American History, and is an expert in the history of Indian cinema, graphic arts and printing.
	www.aifisf.com /ice.htm (8304 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Covering the full range of Indian cinema the new edition includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 70s to the 90s, and additional material on the stars that have made their mark this decade.
		Cinema is but another idiom of complex social, cultural, political, and historical influences especially in a country as diverse as India in its many regional languages, and ethnic and religious pluralism.
		The Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema is really a loving tribute to the amazing men and women who made the film industry the most prolific in the world.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/085170669X (839 words)

	A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema - RANGOONWALLA, FIROZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema traces the growth of the Indian film industry from the imported silent films of eighty years ago to its position today as one of the world's leading film centres.
		There is hope though in the regional cinema & in the rising film-makers of today led by India's most internationally acclaimed director, Satyajit Ray, & both are discussed in depth.
		A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema is a colourful & stimulating account of a unique & thriving industry in all its myriad forms & is illustrated throughout with 60 colour & 150 fl & white illustrations.'.
	www.antiqbook.co.uk /boox/bgo/9892.shtml (291 words)

	SOAS: SOAS; South Asia Department; Postgraduate Course Units; Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
		Tracing the development of Indian popular cinema from 1913 onwards, the course will consider the role of film and public culture in India.
		Indian cinema’s central themes include the construction of religious and national identity, the role of destiny and individual action, and the obligations of kinship, so providing a valuable source for the social and cultural history of twentieth-century India.
		The contextualization of this cinema and the close study of particular films will make the course valuable for students of other disciplines concerning South Asia as well as for students of media studies.
	www.soas.ac.uk /studying/coursedetail.cfm?coursesunitsid=1408 (229 words)

	Ritwik Ghatak
		The tendency, both in and outside India, to valourise the cinema of Ray as representative of everyday life in India or as representative of Indian cinema in general, is problematic.
		My own response to this issue of Ghatak's status within Indian cinema is merely to frame the competing views on his worth that exist within the discourse of this cinema and its history.
		It seems that despite Ghatak's claim to have been drawn to the cinema by the size of the audience he could reach, as Satyajit Ray has noted, “Ritwik had the misfortune to be largely ignored by the Bengali film public in his lifetime” (36).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/ghatak.html (6904 words)

	History of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because of his special interest in sets, costumes, design and painting, he chose episodes from Maratha history for interpreting in the new medium and specialised in the historical genre.
		The exploits of Shivaji and his contemporaries and their patriotic encounters with their opponents formed the recurring themes of his 'historicals' which invariably had a contemporary relevance to the people of a nation, who were fighting for liberation from a colonial oppressor.
		And with that another genre of Indian cinema known as 'the contemporary social' slowly emerged.
	www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /his_Indian_cinema2.html (512 words)

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		Considering that most of the material from Indian cinema's first few decades is either lost or destroyed and verifying authenticity of information is a difficult task, a meticulous compilation is a job unto itself.
		This is particularly useful since the role of these in shaping Indian cinema, especially in its birth and infancy are not widely known, the authors have meticulously looked at this aspect.
		Such a scenario raises interesting questions about Indian cinema, since the Nehruite nationalism, which the authors run down on a few occasions, (though for different reasons), that helped create subsidized art, design and film schools and facilities, is itself now on the way out in India.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ipsg/nl3.html (5027 words)

	Prometheus of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Roy was phenomenal in bridging the gulf between the first two important genres of Indian cinema, the New Theatres tradition and the post independence era, when directors started expressing social concern through their films.
		With his first film, he was able to sweep away the cobwebs of the old tradition and introduce a realism in Indian cinema, with the internationally acclaimed Do Bigha Zameen in 1953.
		The early 1950s marked a change in Indian cinema and film makers were encouraged to experiment with realism.
	www.bengalonthenet.com /culture/cinema/prometheus_of.shtml (746 words)

	India Pages - Dr. Khosla 's Website - India Movies
		At around the same time was born the long lasting trend on the angry young man pitted against the Establishment as represented by Amitabh Bachchan, the superstar of the Indian Film Industry.
		The 90's saw the Indian Cinema come to a full circle with 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' turning out to be the biggest grosser ever.
		Indian cinema has come a long way from the shaky flickering images and grating noises and sounds to a very sophisticated state-of-the-art technology for creation and projection of image and sound track.
	members.rediff.com /drkhosla/indiamovies.html (444 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Bollywood posters tell a story
		The Indian film industry is often in the news these days, with the launch of the latest West End musical Bombay Dreams complimenting the growing Western audience for Indian films.
		It turns out to be a fascinating insight into the history of Indian cinema, where the first moving images reached the sub-Continent only six months after they were first shown by the Lumiere brothers in Paris in 1896.
		The show's curator, Divia Patel, said that these hand painted wall murals were now a dying tradition, as Indian cinema went global and began to embrace computer generated images taken directly from film stills.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2066520.stm (519 words)

	History of Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first Indian to produce a film was H.S. Bhatwdekar.
		All he had with him was a projector, but he didn't have a camera, so he got one from London and shot only 2 scenes of 3 minutes each, which were titled Do Pahalwanon Ki Kushti and Bandar Ko Nachata Hua Madaari.
		The film was released on 14th March 1931 at Majestic Cinema, Girgaon, Bombay.
	movies.indiainfo.com /tales/history.html (580 words)

	World Wide Web Virtual Library - Film History Index - Home Page
		Japanese History Through Film Gives an overview of historical periods and the Japanese films which are set in these periods.
		India HeritageGives an overview of the history of the Indian cinema.
		The Film History Index is a joint project between the European University Institute's Library and History & Civilisation Department.
	vlib.iue.it /hist-film/asia.html (403 words)

	Deepa Mehta's Earth
		Throughout India's history a continuing phenomenon has been that events in the north have often been completely disconnected from events in the south.
		The Marathas were the only real Indian power to step into the gap; they failed to become a formidable power however as they consisted of a group of local kingdoms who were inconsistent in their cooperation with each other.
		Gandhi was an Indian nationalist leader who led the struggle for independence from Britain through the process of non-violent non-cooperation.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/Earth/history.html (2959 words)

	Offbeat Indian Movies
		This blog is all about Indian Offbeat Movies - those non-commercial movies and filmmakers who work towards meaningful cinema.
		Here is a brief history of the Indian Cinema and the major happenings..
		Mostly this blog discusses the various indian movies which are considered non-commercial.
	offbeatmovies.blogspot.com (552 words)

	indian cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For both scholars and fans of Indian cinema, this revised and updated edition is a crucial resource...
		If you think you are bit of an Indian movie buff and would like to write a review for a new movie then you can do so and become famous.
		INDIAN does not take any responsiblity for the accuracy of the screening times or price as this is beyond our control.
	www.moviestown.com /articles/19/indian-cinema.html (433 words)

	MCN Press Release: 2004 Indian Academy Awards
		The announcement was made at a press conference held at J W Marriott, Mumbai, India in the presence of national and international media.
		Lim Neo Chian, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board led Indian film icon Mr Amitabh Bachchan in dotting the eye of the Lions before a Lion Dance was staged to announce the Singapore IIFA Weekend.
		The IIFA Awards 2004 is a salutation to the world's largest film industry and has attracted the stalwarts of both Indian and international cinema, including Amitabh Bachchan, Mira Nair, Shah Rukh Khan, Shekhar Kapoor, Angelina Jolie, Kylie Minogue, Jackie Chan, Bo Derek, Thora Birch and Miranda Richardson.
	www.moviecitynews.com /notepad/2004/040308b_pr.html (1003 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		The Chief Minister noted that recording the history of Indian cinema was a mammoth task and needed a lot of perseverance.
		Mr Shantaram said film historians had helped to get international recognition to Indian filmmakers, whike Mr Chandra said that this task was vital since the work of many veterans would otherwise go unnoticed.
		The volume is both a directory of personalities involved in different sectors of the Indian cinema as well as a collection of important facts on the history of cinema.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/holnus/009200412051511.htm (188 words)

	Black History Review: Books : Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change
		Most critics and scholars, especially in the west often dismiss and even ridicule popular Indian cinema owing to its idiosyncratic musical format, melodrama and playing to the gallery.
		A knowledgeable and affectionate look at 90 years of Indian cinema, the cultural values it portrays and the influence it has had on the evolution of modern Indian society.
		I enjoyed it immensely and strongly recommend it both to cinema buffs everywhere and to all those interested in better understanding the complex web of traditions, prejudices and feelings that make India a compulsive focus of attraction to travellers and observers of social change.
	www.blackhistoryreview.com /more/amzn/1858560969 (173 words)

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