{"id":241,"date":"2017-10-02T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=241"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:18:18","slug":"the-birth-of-the-indian-film-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/the-birth-of-the-indian-film-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of the Indian Film Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well known fact that India\u2019s film industry is the world leader, at least in terms of quantity. In fact, films were shown in Bombay only seven months after the Lumi\u00e8re brothers had founded the first movie theatre in Paris in 1895.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-241 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/in144.jpg'><img width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/in144.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1134\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1134'>\n\t\t\t\tAn early movie poster <span>Jukka O. Miettinen<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>From the very beginning the most popular Indian films aimed at combining the basic elements of traditional Indian <i>natya<\/i> (theatre), that is, drama, music, and dance. This resulted in huge productions, often dealing with mythological Hindu themes, sometimes called \u201ctheologicals\u201d. They were the forerunners of the entertaining musical films of today.<\/p>\n<p>The most productive centre of the film industry, among many other centres around India, is Bombay. So it has received a nickname, Bollywood, which suits it well. Consequently, the entertainment movies produced in Mumbai are called \u201cBollywood musicals\u201d. They have gained enormous popularity in other Asian countries as well as in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, India\u2019s film industry has also produced serious \u201cart films\u201d. The first centre of art films, often with a critical approach, was Colcata, with its long tradition of Bengali intellectuals and nationalism. The early important names of this genre include Satyajit Ray and Mrnal Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well known fact that India\u2019s film industry is the world leader, at least in terms of quantity. In fact, films were shown in Bombay only seven months after the Lumi\u00e8re brothers had founded the first movie theatre in Paris in 1895. From the very beginning the most popular Indian films aimed at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}