Saturday, December 5, 2015

INDIAN CINEMA AND MUSIC

·         The first silent Film, Raja Harishchandra released at coronation theatre in 1913. It was first indigenous feature film of India.

·         Dadasaheb Phalke is known as Father of Indian Cinema. The Highest National Film Award is named after him.

·         The first full length talkie film Alam Ara at Majestic Cinema, Mumbai released in 1931.

·         Master Vithal was the first talkie hero
.
·         Zubeida was the heroine

·         Prithviraj was the villan and B. Irani were the first music directors.

·         Mrs. Devika Rani Roerich was the first person to receive Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

·         Satyajit Ray won Special Award (Oscar) for life time achievement in 1992.

   Important Instrument Players

Instrument
          Player
Dhrupad
Haridas Swami
Flute
Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya, Pannalal Ghose, T.R. Mahalingam
Mandolin
V. Srinivas
Sitar
Invented by Amir Khusrau;Nikhil Bannerji, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Devbrat Choudhary, Hara Shankar Bhattacharya
Sarod
Ali Akbar Khan, Zarin S. Sharma, Amjad Ali Khan, Allaudin Khan, Buddhadev Dasgupta, BahadurKhan, Sharan Rani
Sarangi
Ustad Binda Khan
Shehnai
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Santoor
Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma
Tabla
Allah Rakha Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Zakir Hussain, Shaafal Ahmed Khan, Nikhil Ghosh
Violin
L. Subramaniam, T.N. Krishnan, Gujanan Rao Joshi, Baluswamy Dikshitar, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, M.S. Gopala-Krishnan, Mysore T. Chowdiah
Veena
K.R. Kumaraswami Iyer, Doraiswamy Iyengar, S. Balachandran

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