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Chitrangi

Chitrangi (Tamil: சித்ராங்கி) is a 1964 Indian Tamil film, directed by R. S. Mani.

Durgabai Kamat

Durgabai Kamat (1899 - May 17, 1997), was a Marathi actress, who was the first female actress of Indian cinema.

Idhayak Kamalam

Idhayak Kamalam (Tamil: இதயக் கமலம்; English: Heart Lotus) is a 1965 Indian Tamil film, directed by Srikanth.

Motor Sundaram Pillai

Motor Sundaram Pillai (Tamil: மோட்டார் சுந்தரம் பிள்ளை) is a 1966 Indian Tamil drama film, directed by Balu.

Naanum Rowdydhaan

Naanum Rowdydhaan is an upcoming Indian Tamil film written and directed by Vignesh Shivan, in his second venture after Podaa Podi (2012).

Natya Shastra

The theory of rasa described in the text has also been a major influence on modern Indian cinema especially in the Malayalam Film Industry.

Neecha Nagar

Written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, it was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for many such 'parallel cinema' films by other directors, many of them written by Abbas.

Nenjil Or Aalayam

Nenjil Or Aalayam (Tamil: நெஞ்சில் ஓர் ஆலயம்; English: A temple in the heart) is a 1962 Indian Tamil tragedy-drama film, written and directed by C. V. Sridhar.

Nila Madhab Panda

He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the India Screenwriting Lab, which focuses on creating quality scripts for Indian Cinema, quality children cinema with the British Council, The royal Netherlands embassy and Saregama, the European Union Media International Programme, Eon Productions, Goethe Institute in Germany, Cinekid in Amsterdam, Children’s Film Society, India.

Sumaithaangi

Sumaithaangi (Tamil: ; English: One who shoulders the burden) is a 1962 Indian Tamil film, directed by C. V. Sridhar.

Utpal Dutta

Utpal Datta is a National Film Award-winning film critic, long associated with Bismoi, an entertainment Assamese magazine, Rangghar- cultural monthly and Roopkar-Cultural Monthly and later joins the All India Radio Guwahati, where his book 24 Frames (2008), an anthology of articles on Indian cinema, was released as a radio program.


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Ayodhyecha Raja

After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.

Bombay Talkies

In recognition of her contribution to Indian cinema, Devika Rani was awarded the highly respected Padma Shri award in 1958.

Dharti Ke Lal

The film marked, another chapter in the influential new wave in Indian cinema which focussed on socially relevant themes as in Neecha Nagar (1946), made by Chetan Anand, also scripted by Abbas, and which continued with Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin (1953).

Ogirala

Ogirala Ramachandra Rao famous playback singer and music director in Indian cinema.

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Richa Gangopadhyay, (2004) model, popular lead actress in Indian Cinema, particularly in South India.

Paanch Adhyay

Besides a successful six-week run in Bengal, Paanch Adhyay was selected as the Centerpiece Premiere at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York and in the New Voice in Indian Cinema section at the Mumbai Film Festival.

Rajkumari Dubey

After she quit Prakash Pictures, she began playback singing for actresses like Ratnamala, Shobhana Samarth, etc. and soon she became the First Female Playback Singer of Indian Cinema.

Sabbir Khan

In a first for Indian Cinema, his movie featured cameo appearances from A-list Hollywood actors including, Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, Brandon Routh and Holly Valance among others.

Sanoop Santhosh

The Asianet Film Award was handed to him on 10 January 2014 at a glamorous event in Dubai,graced by the superstars of Indian cinema;the Badshah Of Bollywood,Shahrukh Khan,Ulaganayakan Kamal Haasan and Mollywood's own Big M's Mohanlal and Mammootty.

Shaukat Kaifi

They had two children together, Shabana Azmi (b. 1950), a renowned actress of Indian cinema and Baba Azmi, a noted cameraman, and is part of the Akhtar-Azmi family.

Subrata Sen

Though not as famous as his seniors beyond his home-state Bengal, Sen is the maverick filmmaker of Indian Cinema whose work, as felt in Karlovy Vary Film Festival catalogue, strongly resembles that of Pedro Almodóvar.

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Nitin Chandrakant Desai, is a noted Indian art director and production designer of Indian cinema turned film and television producer