Film Industry
The film production era is said to have commenced in Bombay from 1913 when the first film Raja Harishchandra was shown by Dadasaheb Phalke. Phalke made his first film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1912; it was first shown publicly on 3 May 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation Cinema, effectively marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. Around one year before, Ramchandra Gopal (known as Dadasaheb Torne) had filmed a stage drama called Pundalik and shown it in the same theater. However, the credit for making the first Indian feature film is attributed to Dadasaheb Phalke.
Other producers at Bombay were B. R. Chopra, S. Mukherjee, and Raj Kapoor. Ever since production of movies took place, there started the trend of film making that established and further progressed, resulting in formation of the film industry and new film production companies as well as studios.
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