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Mukhram Sharma, screenwriter of Aulad, Kuldip Pictures Ltd., 1954. Image courtesy: Rakesh Sengupta.
Excerpts from the script and stills of Parash Pathar, dir. Satyajit Ray, 1958.
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Excerpts from the script and stills of Apur Sansar, dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959.
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Screenwriter Kader Khan at work.
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Image courtesy: Rakesh Sengupta.
Image courtesy: Rakesh Sengupta.
Images courtesy: Rakesh Sengupta.
Examples of screenwriting manuals during the early years of cinema:
i) 1920
2) 1912
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Poster of Alam Ara, Imperial Movietone, 1931.
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Still from Alam Ara, Imperial Movietone, 1931.
From the article, 'No print of Alam Ara available: Whose fault is this?', Hindustan Times, 15 Mar. 2016.
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Ardeshir Irani, founder of Imperial Movietone, director and producer of Alam Ara (1931).
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Homi Wadia, co-founder of Wadia Movietone with his brother J.B.H. Wadia, director and co-producer with J.B.H.) of Hunterwali (1933).
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Sohrab Modi, founder of Minerva Movietone, director and producer of Pukar (1939). His likeness is pictured here on a stamp issued by the Govt. of India in 2013.
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Lal-e-Yaman, Wadia Movietone, 1933.
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Promotional material of the Bombay Talkies studio.
From the article, 'How the Bombay Talkies studio became Hindi cinema's original dream factory', Karan Bali, Scroll.in, 9 Dec. 2014.
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Promotional material of the Bombay Talkies studio. Photo credit: ACMI/ Charlie Kinross.
From the article, 'Bombay Talkies: Australian discovers family connection to Indian film royalty', Sarah Kanowski, ABC Radio National, 13 Feb. 2017
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Joseph David Penkar, celebrated screenwriter of Bombay film including the first Hindustani-language talkie, Alam Ara (1931).
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Agha Jani Kashmiri, celebrated screenwriter of Bombay film from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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-'Somewhere Between Human, Nonhuman and Woman: Shanta Apte's Theory of Exhaustion', Feminist Media Histories [Vol. 6.1], pp. 21- 51, 2020.
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Rachel Dwyer, 'Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema', Routledge, 2006.
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Sudhir Mahadevan, 'A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India', SUNY Press, 2015.
André Bazin, 'What Is Cinema?', trans. Hugh Gray, University of California Press, 1967.
Stephen Hughes, 'The Production of the Past: Early Tamil Film History as a Living Archive', Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, pp. 71-80, June 2013.
Ravikant, 'Words in Motion Pictures: A Social History of the Language of Hindi Cinema (c. 1931 till present)', Unpublished diss., University of Delhi, 2015.
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