{"id":172301,"date":"2025-05-24T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172301"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:33:32","slug":"first-indian-film-raja-harishchandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/first-indian-film-raja-harishchandra\/","title":{"rendered":"First Indian Film &#8211; Raja Harishchandra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first Indian film is Raja Harishchandra, a silent movie made in 1913 that was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is said to be the first feature-length full-length film in Indian cinema.<br>The first full-length Indian feature film is generally regarded to be Raja Harishchandra.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Title: Raja Harishchandra (\u0930\u093e\u091c\u093e \u0939\u0930\u093f\u0936\u094d\u091a\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Year of release: 1913<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director and Producer: Dadasaheb Phalke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language: Silent film with Marathi, Hindi, and English intertitles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Story: based on the legend of King Harishchandra, known for having been truthful and honest in Hindu mythology;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Release Date: It was released in theatres at the Olympia Theatre, Bombay on April 21, 1913 and had a theatrical release on May 3, 1913, at the Coronation Cinematograph and Variety Hall, Girgaon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Significance: It was a commercial success and regarded as a landmark film that played an important role in founding the Indian Film Industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Indian film is Raja Harishchandra, a silent movie made in 1913 that was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is said to be the first feature-length full-length film in Indian cinema.The first full-length Indian feature film is generally regarded to be Raja Harishchandra. Key Points:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-172301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172303,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172301\/revisions\/172303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172301"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=172301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}