The early 70s saw the advent of Dada Kondke who captured the audiences with his sense of humour. Then came directors like Datta Dharmadhikari and Raj Dutt who made traditional family dramas. Later years – that is the 60s – saw the emergence of directors like Anant Mane who made Marathi films based on the folk art form Tamasha. Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Bhalji Pendharkar, Acharya Atre, followed by Raja Paranjpe, G.
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Marathi Cinema was in its full bloom by this time with the advent of greats like V. In 1954, at the very first edition of the National Awards, the winner of the President’s Gold Medal was Shyamchi Aai, Acharya P K Atre’s film version of the eponymous novel by Sane Guruji. Prabhat’s Sant Tukaram was the first Indian film to win the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival way back in 1937. Some of India’s landmark films were made by the Prabhat Film Company, which, apart from being good cinema, had social responsibility and human values. It was indeed the mighty Prabhat film company. However it can be called the first Marathi film as it was conceived by a Marathi speaking person.Īs cinema grew in India, big production houses came on the stage and one of them was again a company owned wholly by Maharashtrians. In fact the pioneer of cinema in India was Dadasaheb Phalke – a Marathi man, who brought the revolution of moving images to India with his first indigenously made film Raja Harishchandra. Marathi Cinema is as old as Cinema in India. Raja Harishchandra (silent movie) by Dadasaheb Phalke
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