Posts Tagged ‘Manmath Ray’

  • A page from Indian film history: The Court Dancer (1941)
    1941: World War II was raging on in Europe and, back home in India, Tagore passed away. The year also saw the first trilingual production of an Indian film—Wadia Movietone’s The Court Dancer or Raj Nartaki, directed by Modhu Bose (1900-1969), which was released in English, Hindi, and Bengali. According to the film credits, The Court Dancer was “the first Indian...
    by Nivedita Ramakrishnan at June 21st, 2009 at 10:06 pm