The Hindi film industry or Bollywood's history dates back to 1913, when Dadasaheb Phalke produced and directed the silent movie Raja Harishchandra. After the roaring success of the movie, a creative bunch of people stepped into movie making in Mumbai. After the silent age came the talkies, and the very first Hindi sound film Alam Ara was released in 1931, followed by the very first Hindi colour film Kisan Kanya.
Films that came out of Bollywood during the 40s were mostly escapist fantasies, owing to the grim socio political conditions that were brought about by the nationalist movement, which coincided with World War II. However, socio political issues also found expression on the silver screen, with movies like.
Poverty in the villages of India and undying family values were depicted with unflinching realism in Mehboob Khan's Mother India (1957). It was about the same period that Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor made some of their best films, and showed their wonderful directorial and acting talent in films like Pyaasa, Awara and Shree 420. Mughal-E-Azam, a 1960 classic, was an immortal film that recreated the Mughal era on the silver screen with great realism.
Music composers like OP Nayyar and SD Burman enchanted the masses with their musical compositions and artistes like Nargis, Madhubala, Dev Anand and Ashok Kumar became household names. It was during the 50s and 60s that Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar won nationwide acclaim as playback singers.
In the swinging 60s, Shammi Kapoor, the Indian Elvis Presley, mesmerized audiences with his dance and acting. The 70s was a decade for Amitabh Bachchan with his characters fighting against injustice and corruption. The action genre continued into the mid 80s, until the nationwide release of Qayamat se Qayamat Tak in 1988, and since then, romantic movies have been popular in Bollywood and can even be seen in the latest Bollywood movies. However Bollywood now has a much more advanced industry, creating movies that often get wide acclaim from throughout the world.
Rural poverty and undying family values were remarkably depicted in Mehboob Khan's Mother India, which was released in 1957. During the same time, the great actor and director Raj Kapoor directed two immortal classics - Awara and Shree 420 - and director Guru Dutt also produced and directed such wonderful films as Pyaasa. Mughal-E-Azam (1960) was an epic on celluloid that brought the Mughal era on the silver screen like never before.
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