
The emergence of new Indian cinema came from the films made by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Tapan sinha, Basu Chatterjee, Basu Bhattacharjee, Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Gautam Ghoshe, M. A new trend of action-oriented themes with seeds of revenge and the image of the hero as an 'ANGRY YOUNG MAN', dominated the Indian Cinema. The seventies further added some popular Hindi films to the list such as Johny Mera Naam, Hathi Mere Saathi, Abhiman, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Pakeeza, Sholey, Kabhie Kabhie, Roti Kapda Makan and Amar Akbar Anthony. Asif's Mughal-E-Azam, Raj Kapoor's Jis Desh Mein Ganga behti Hain and Sangam, Dev Anand's Guide, Promode Chakraborty's Love in Tokyo, Shakti Samanta's Aradhana, Guru Dutt's Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam, Manoj Kumar's Upkar and O.P. The fifties gave us some wonderful Hindi films like Baiju Bawra, Naya Daur, Devdas, Shri 420, Jhanak Jhanak Payel Najey, Sujata, Madhumati etc. Shantaram's Do Ankhen Barah Haath and Guru Dutt's Piyasa. Abbas's Munna and Rahi, Raj Kapoor's Awara and Jagte Raho, V.

In Hindi film also, the impact of neorealism was noticed in Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin, Mehmoob's Aan and Mother India, K.A. International recognition came to it with Cannes award. the Big turning point in Indian Cinema came in1953, with the arrival of Satyajit Ray and his social Bengali film, Pather Panchali. The first International Film Festival of India held in early 1952 at Bombay had a great impact on Indian Cinema. In 1949, Sohrab Modi, set a ne trend in historical films with Pukar, Sikander etc. Kotnis ki Amar Kahani, Uday Shankaar's Kalpana, S.S. The Forties witnessed the production of a few remarkable films such as V. in 1937, Ardeshir Irani made for the first time a colour film named Kisan Kanya and a year later, another film named Mother India. Barua's Devdas, and Mukti, Devaki Basu's Vidyapathi and Seeta, Nitin Bose's Bade Bahen etc., were made and released with great success. A number of black and white feature fils based on social drama were made. The decade of the thirties is recognised as the period of glory. The First Indian talkie Alam Ara, produced by the Imperial Film Company and directed by Ardeshir Irani was released in 1931 at Bombay. Dada Sahib Phalke, is however, acclaimed asthe ' Father of Indian Cinema'.


Raja Harischandra (3700 B.C.), the first indian silent feature film made by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dada Sahib Phalke), with titles in hindi and English, was released for public exhibition in 1913 at Bombay, although the first Indian to make a film was Harischandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar (known popularly as Save Dada) who made a number of short films in 1899.
