Indian Firsts in Film History

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First Silent Film and First Full-length Indian Feature Film to be made by Dadasaheb Phalke

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First Sound Film, directed by Ardeshir Irani
First Talkie Actress:Zubeida
De de khuda ke naam per - The first song of the Indian cinema

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First Colour film directed by Moti B. Gidvani
Film made entirely in India, was processed and printed in Germany

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First Indian cinema to get Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival
Directed by Chetan Anand

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First Indian cinema to get Golden Lotus Award for Best Film at the National Film Awards in 1954.
Shyamchi Aai is a Marathi film , directed by P.K.Atre.

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First Film to win highest number of international awards 11 awards, including Cannes.

Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Director Satyajit Ray (1992)

Films to be considered as All-Time 100 best movies: Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar(1959)) by Satyajit Ray

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First Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

The film ranks among the all-time Indian box office hits and has been described as "an all-time Indian blockbuster" and "perhaps India's most revered film".

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First 75 mm Cinema scope film
India's equivalent of "Sunset Boulevard"

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First Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)

During the re-release the film ran for 25 weeks and probably there is no other example of any film running for 25 weeks in its re-release.

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Guinness Book of World Records in the category Fewest actors in a narrative film: Yaadein (1964) directed and acted by Sunil Dutt

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First Oscar for Best Costume Design: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design

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First Indian 70 mm film: A Malayalam film

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Sponsored Hindi TV serial, started on July 7, 1984, was also the first soap opera of India, ran for 156 episodes

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First 3-D film: A Malayalam film, produced in 1984, dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan.

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First Hindi film screened at the United Nations on 10 November 2006

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Music director to win an Oscar and first double Oscar winner-Mr. A. R. Rahman

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Kamal Hasan An actor to enact 10 roles