Dhundiraj Govind Phalke,  popularly known as ‘Dadasaheb Phalke’  (1870-1944), introduced the art of cinema in India and opened the door of unlimited imagination before the countrymen. His visionary ambition laid a strong base for today’s flourished Indian entertainment industry. Paying tributes to the legend, popularly known as the Father of Indian Cinema, on his 151st Birth Anniversary on 30^th April, 2021, Films Division is organizing a two-day festival of  documentary and animation films on 29^th and 30^th April, 2021.  The films will be streamed on https://filmsdivision.org/ under Documentary of the Week section and on https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision

The films being streamed  on FD website and You Tube channel are:  

Dream Takes Wings (16Mins/English/1972/Gajanan Jagirdar - a biopic on the Dadasaheb Phalke, Phalke Children(20Mins/English/1994/Kamal Swaroop) - a film that  traces his life and career through the reminiscence of  surviving children and family photographs.

 

The Pea Plant Legacy (11 Mins/Music/2015/Ram Mohan) - an animation film on Dadasaheb Phalke and Tracing Phalke (102 Mins/English/2015/Kamal Swaroop) – a film which traces the places Phalke lived and worked through the people who belonged to those cities, trying to tell stories about his life in those places.

 

Rangbhoomi (90Mins/Hindi/2013/Kamal Swaroop) - a part fiction, part documentary that attempts to trace the contours of Phalke’s  life in Varanasi after he withdrew, disillusioned, from the world of cinema and decided to take up theatre.

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Films Division Mumbai/DL/CY

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