Celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema

Times of India: A five-day cultural festival, comprising music, dance, films and exhibition, has been

organized between April 29 and May 3 at the National Film Archive of India to celebrate 100 years of

Indian cinema. It was on May 3, 1913, when founder of the Indian film industry Dadasaheb Phalke

screened the first movie Raja Harishchandra at Coronation theatre in Mumbai. Addressing a news

conference here on Wednesday, Congress corporator Aba Bagul, chairman of Pune Navratra Mahotsav,

the main organizer of the festival, said, “On May 3, the film industry will enter the 100th year of its foundation.

During the festival, US-based Jayant Kulkarni, who has a huge collection of rare photographs of artists

from the early days, will open his treasure for cinema lovers.”

On the 142nd birth anniversary of Phalke on April 30, 2012 a rally will be taken out from the Film and

Television Institute of India till Sarasbaug, said Bagul. Marathi film songs will be presented at Vasant Bagul

Udyan on May 1 evening while actors, who have worked as child actors in Marathi films, will interact with

children on May 2 evening, he said. The organizing committee has also decided to screen some famous

Marathi as well as other Indian films at various theatres in the city. The details will be announced soon,

Bagul said.

100 years of Indian Cinema- Star Galaxy At Pune

To mark the centenary year of Indian movies, a 5-day cultural festival is being organised at Pune’s

Vasantrao Bagul Garden, Sahakarnagar. This event is organised by Pune Navratra Mahotsav Trust

President and PMC corporator Shri Aba Bagul which will be inaugurated on Sunday 29, April, 2012,

at 5:30 pm at the hands of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Prithvirajji Chavan. The inauguration

day will witness a galaxy of celebrities from the Indian film industry.

Veteran cinestars like Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh, Sulochana Didi, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra,

Asrani, Vishwajeet, Rati Agnihotri, Parikshit Sahni, Sudha Chandran, Tinu Anand, Shammi, Shailendra

Singh, Viju Khote, Shobha Khote and Jai Borate will gather together at this opening day to salute the

memories of the founder of Indian films Late Dadasaheb Phalke. Renowned international artist

Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and Sandeep Marwah, President of Asian Society of Film and Television,

New Delhi will also make his first public appearance in Pune on this occasion.

US-based Jayant Kulkarni, who has a huge collection of rare photographs of artists from the early days,

will open his treasure for cinema lovers.

Smt. Madhuritai Phalke, daughter-in-law of Late Dadasaheb Phalke, Smt. Meena Munge, the heroine

of the movies of Late Dadasaheb Phalke of that time will also be felicitated on this occasion.