Raja Harishchandra
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| Original title | राजा हरिश्चंद्र Raja Harishchandra |
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| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | 3700 ft about 50 minutes |
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| Director | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke |
| script | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke |
| production | Phalke Films Company |
| camera | Trymbak B. Telang |
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Raja Harishchandra (in an older transcription also Raja Harischandra ; Hindi : राजा हरिश्चंद्र Rājā Hariścandra ) is an Indian film by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke . This silent film , published on May 3, 1913 , is considered the beginning of Indian cinema and deals with a story from the national epic Mahabharata .
action
King Harishchandra and his wife Taramati practice archery with their son Rohtash . Harishchandra is called to hunt by his subjects. In the forest they hear human sounds and follow them. You will meet the sage Vishwamitra , who invokes the forces of nature. Harishchandra destroys the apparitions and offers the angry Vishwamitra his kingdom for reassurance. He accepts the royal dignity and sends Harishchandra with his wife and child into exile. As if that weren't enough, the wise man arranges Taramati's false accusation of murdering Prince Kashi . But divine providence ultimately re-establishes the old order as a reward for Harishchandra's moral integrity.
background
As recently as 1910, only imported western films were shown in India. DG Phalke had bought a film camera in London at the beginning of 1912 with the intention of changing this and producing a film with an Indian subject. His first film was a successful story in the 1880s on the stage from the Mahabharata about the mythological King Harishchandra based on a drama by Ranchhodbhai Udayram Dave (1837-1923) from 1875. Phalke opened in 1912 the film studio Phalke Films in Dadar in Bombay , wrote the scenario and had the film set built. The production of the film took almost eight months. Phalke was only able to win male actors for his film, since - as was common on the Indian stages of the time - no women were involved in acting. The stage actor DD Dabke took on the leading role of King Harishchandra, the female actor Anna Salunke played Harishchandra's wife Taramati, Phalke's son Bhalachandra Dhundiraj Phalke was used as a child actor for the role of Harishchandra's son Rohtash and GV Sane played the wise Vishwamitra.
Raja Harishchandra was shown at the Olympia Theater on April 21, 1913 to a select audience of Bombay personalities and newspaper publishers. The first public performance to a paying audience took place on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinema in Bombay. It was the first feature film produced in India and was so successful that further film copies had to be made for performances outside the city. May 3, 1913 is considered to be the beginning of Indian cinema today.
Raja Harishchandra's original film is believed to consisted of four rolls of film totaling 3700 ft, but only two of which - the first and the last (1475 ft) - have survived and made by PK Nair in the 1960s were acquired by the Phalkes family. Both are kept in the National Film Archive of India in Pune . Some film historians believe that these are not fragments of the film from 1913, but parts of a remake of the same name from 1917.
The fact that the film Pundalik , attributed to Ramchandra Gopal Torney , had already been released a year earlier , is often objected to against the status of Raja Harishchandra as the first Indian film . In contrast to Raja Harishchandra , however, Pundalik is a filmed stage play that was produced by the British photography company Bourne & Shepherd based in India .
Still photos from the film
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Others
The 2008 Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory is about the production of Raja Harishchandra . It was submitted by India as a candidate for an Oscar nomination but was not considered.
literature
- Raja Harishchandra . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 243
Web links
- Raja Harishchandra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Raja Harishchandra (film)
- 1st Indian film Raja Harishchandra now on DVD
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 243
- ↑ Ranchhodbhai Udayram Dave, Indian Theater Personality
- ↑ Ramesh Dawar: Bollywood Yesterday Today and Tomorrow , Star Publications, 2006, ISBN 978-1-905863-01-3 , p. 9
- ↑ http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/dec/15jha.htm
- ^ Today in History May 3, NDTV
- ↑ Anurag Kashyap shoots in Amitabh Bachchan's home in The Times of India on February 22, 2013
- ↑ Shivendra Singh Dungarpur : Indian Cinema - A Vanishing Legacy. In: Journal of Film Preservation, 10.2014, p. 26 ff.
- ↑ Raja Harishchandra ( memento of the original from November 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , National Film Archive of India .
- ^ Raja Harishchandra "(1913) www.filmthreat.com.
- ^ Indian Cinema - A Lost Heritage at Film Heritage Foundation
- ↑ also in Rajadhyaksha / Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 243 this thesis is represented
- ↑ Torne's 'Pundlik' came first, but missed honor in The Times of India on April 21, 2012
- ↑ Pundalik. In: Rajadhyaksha / Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 243
- ↑ Harishchandrachi Factory to tell story behind making of India's first feature film ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Expressindia on May 3, 2008
- ↑ 'Harishchandrachi Factory' India's entry for Oscars in The Times of India from September 20, 2009
- ↑ Harishchandrachi Factory: India's latest Oscar blunder? ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated October 31, 2009
