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Pranita Harad
Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, the pride of Pune city presents a spectacular depiction of Indian arts and crafts reflected in everyday life. It is a collection of 21,000 unique and invaluable artifacts that were collected single-handedly by Dr. Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar. An optician by profession, Dr.…
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Arvikar, Hrishikesh. 2015.  'The Cinema of Prabhat: Histories, Aesthetics and Politics'. M Phil Dissertation. School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.   Athavale, Shantaram. 1965. Prabhat Kaal. Pune: Venus.   Bardhan, Pranab. 1999. The Political Economy of Development in India.…
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Sarah Niazi
The 1930s was an exciting epoch in the history of Indian cinema. The arrival of sound had made things challenging, exhilarating and new. While older modes of film production and exhibition still held their sway, the advent of new technology put the nascent film industry in a tizzy. The Prabhat Film…
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Hrishikesh Ingle
Prabhat was a studio encapsulating regional and national cinematic imaginaries, characterized by the intersection of creative exuberance with industrial/technological advancement in pre-independence India. Its name has metaphoric significance, as it ushered in a new prabhat (dawn) in the film…
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Hrishikesh Arvikar
India was a site of contested claims by regions attempting to stake their claim in the making of a nation. However, between nationalism and nationalisation, there is a window to the cultural world, more specifically in the lives of Indian cinema, which tells the story of the making, negotiating,…
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Hrishikesh Arvikar
Prabhat (1929–53), a regional film studio, was started as a collective under the political patronage of the King of Kolhapur. In 1934, it became one of the state-of-the-art studios in Asia when it shifted to Pune. This module explores the logistical, aesthetic, ideological and spatial manoeuvres…
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Shashikant Kinikar: Right from my childhood, I was very fascinated with films. Because whatever films I came across I liked them. It was the period of Early 1950s. Because I liked films, I started gathering material on films. At that time, getting knowledge about films was through Radio Ceylon,…
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