In pictures: 100 years of Bollywood 1913 to 1923

Dhundiraj G Phalke He came from a family of priests but when D G Phalke watched a film on the life of Christ, he decided that he was going to turn this new medium into a vehicle for the stories of the subcontinent. And he did exactly that, going to Germa???

Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar Bhatavdekar sold cameras and camera equipment but he is also, almost certainly, the first of the Indian filmmakers. Like George Melies, he took his cues from what he saw around him, shooting the antics of monkeys and an???

Jehangir Framji Madan By 1905, J F Madan had two prominent theatre companies, the Elphinstone and the Khatau-Alfred, which he had bought down to the rights to their repertoires. This meant that when he got into the motion picture business — by 1902, so???