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Pioneer of #Indiancinema, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, famously known as #DadasahebPhalke, died #onthisday in 1944. He directed the first Indian feature film, #RajaHarishchandra in 1913.
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Phalke directed 95 feature films and 26 short films in his 19-year career. Only one of his films, ‘Gangavataran’ (1937), was made with sound technology. The others were silent films.
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Phalke’s achievements were in part due to his wife, Saraswatibai. She was his film editor and production manager. She sold her jewellery so that he could buy a camera and travel to London to learn filmmaking. Read more:
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