Dadasaheb Phalke
Govind Phalke Dhundiraj (also called Dadasaheb Phalke, Marathi: धुंडिराज गोविंद फाळके; born April 30, 1870 in Trimbakeshwar, † February 16, 1944 at Nashik ) was an Indian film director. He is considered the founder of the Indian film industry.
Life
Phalke studied art and architecture in Bombay at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art He first worked as a landscape painter, photographer, Bühnenvisagist and as an assistant for a German magician. An offer to start in Germany as art printer, he struck out and instead went to England in 1912 to purchase equipment for film production.
From an acquaintance he had the necessary financial support to produce India's first feature film. The result was Raja Harishchandra, who came to the cinema on 3 May 1913. It is about a king of his kingdom and his family sacrificed for the sake of his principles before he gets back from impressed by his sincerity gods. The film won the audience because they, unlike to see a story than the more common western movies, were, with which they were familiar.
Phalke went to Nashik and produced more films. Offers to stay in Europe, which he received in 1914 during a visit to England, he struck out again and returned with a new film equipment back to India. From 1917 to 1919 he turned there its largest and most successful films, all mythological stories depicting. His 1919 film Kaliya Mardan incurred is today most complete film Phalces. As before, his colleague Georges Méliès and David Wark Griffith in the west Phalke employed with special effects, elaborate sets and the technical aspects of filming.
The mythological film dominated Indian cinema for a while, but in the 1920s, the public's taste and more action -heavy subject matter and the film changed became more commercial. Phalke turned most of his films in the 1920s, but felt more and more as outsider and came back in 1928 filmmaking. However, he turned in 1931 and 1937, yet each a movie without this large been successful. When he died in 1944 he had already forgotten.
The most trusted Film Award of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, remembers today the pioneer of the Indian film. Paresh Mokashis marathischer film Harishchandrachi Factory ( 2009) on Phalces film work is India's candidate for an Oscar nomination.