Ayodhyecha Raja
| Ayodhyecha Raja | |
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Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram | |
| Music by | Govindrao Tembe |
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Running time | 146 min |
| Country | India |
| Languages | Marathi Hindi |
Ayodhyecha Raja, literally "The King of Ayodhya", was the first
The film was also made as a double-version, Ayodhya Ka Raja (1932) in
Indian cinema, wherein Munshi Ismail Farogh wrote the Hindi dialogue, while screenwriter N.V. Kulkarni also did Marathi dialogue.[5] India's first full-length feature film, Raja Harishchandra
(1913), was also made on the same storyline.
Significance
The film was not just
Duniya Na Mane
(Kunku in Marathi) in 1937.
After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.[9][10]
Cast
- Govindrao Tembe as Harishchandra
- Mrs Durga Khote as Taramati
- Digambar as Rohitashwa
- Nimbalkar as Vishwamitra
- B.Desai as Jatadhar
- Sushila as Maid Queen
- B.Pendharkar as Ganganath
- Vinayak as Narad
- G.R. Mane as Domb
Soundtrack
Ayodhyecha Raja has music by Govindrao Tembe:
- "Shiv Shankara, Girjavaran"
- "Jai Jai Rajadiraj"; singer: Vasant Desai[8]
References
- YouTube
- ISBN 978-1-351-56589-9.
- ISBN 1-85856-329-1.
- All Movie Guide. Archived from the originalon 26 October 2012.
- ^ The Firsts of Indian Cinema: Milestones from 1896-2000 Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Film and Television Producers Guild of India
- ^ "Tribute: Remembering the pioneer". Screen. 8 December 2000. Archived from the original on 14 July 2008.
- ISBN 0-02-919241-2.
- ^ a b
Ranade, Ashok Da. (2006). Hindi Film Song: Music Beyond Boundaries. Bibliophile South Asia. pp. 110, 229. ISBN 81-85002-64-9.
- ^ Looking back, 1896-1960, by Rani Burra. Pub. Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1981. p. 42.
- ^ Swamy, Rohan (15 May 2013). "We were lucky that we could save Ayodhyecha Raja: Anil Damle". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
External links
- Ayodhyecha Raja at IMDb
- Ayodhyecha Raja Archived 22 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Prabhat Film Company
