Harishchandra's Factory
Harishchandra's Factory
| 15 January 2009 (USA)
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In 1913 India's cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalke's efforts to make Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature-length B&W silent film.

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Laikals

The greatest movie ever made..!

Infamousta

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

SpunkySelfTwitter

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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Aspen Orson

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

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sandyfriends2004

speech less !!!! can't imagine Marathi movie can be of this standard. Proud to see this movie. The story telling and screen play is so good that, doesn't feel like taking your eyes and mind of... Story show in so adverse situation , how a new thinking , a thinking that was considered as foolishness, has brought such a huge change in Indian cinema. The story is about the struggle of Dadasaheb Phalke to make a first feature film in India. The struggle that Dadasaheb Phalke faced and his determination to bring some thing new in India and create an industry and create jobs.Nandu Madhav as Dadasaheb Phalke did an excellent job, but i liked most his wife Saraswati Phalke (Vibhavari Deshpande), her role in Dadasaheb Phalke's life , she had given him unconditional support, because of which the dream of Dadasaheb Phalke was fulfilled. All the different actor in different characters have done an excellent job too. All credit goes to The Director, because i know how difficult is to make a movie like this. Thanks for such a movie , keep making such a beautiful movie.

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sreejithmukundan

How can we call a movie as a brilliant work!It's simple as that making a movie with the limited resources s what a film maker is getting in his project!This movie is one of the major biographic movie about the history of Indian movie making and the discovering one of the major business in the country!The movie shows us how Mr.D.B.Phalke an ordinary Indian magician and a press business man turn into a phonier film maker and become the father of Indian cinema. This movie is made by Paresh Mokashi as his debuts feature film. Mokashi treated this movie to a simple comedy, and a family entertainer. This maid the movie an easy go! The screenplay, acting, editing, art, cinematography etc are been craved to its best. In reality the life of Phalke is such a big history and event, so making a movie about Phalke is such a big challenge to anyone who is will to do. But the brilliancy of Mokashi maid the life of Phalke to an awesome entertainer, this movie will be one of the treasure to Indian cinema for it's contend!To the viewers: - I want ever movie lover to watch this. It will inspire you too, to be a film maker.

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Avinash Patalay

"Harishchandrachi Factory" is Indian Cinema's official entry into the Academy Awards and the million-dollar question is - does it justify? Yep, you bet! Maybe not soul-stirring, not a tear-jerker either, sans social message and not even magnum-opus.... yet "Harishchandrachi Factory" lingers in your head like a sweet aroma. Biopics generally tend to have a format which demonstrate the hardships and struggle of an individuals to realise the dream. It is exactly here "Harishchandrachi Factory" truly standouts by adopting an untrodden path. It depicts Mr. Phalke's journey of creating the first celluloid on Indian Cinema without getting over-bearing, in the light-hearted way possible ensuring the essence is not lost. I am sure the truth is far from it and should not discount the pains Mr. Phalke underwent to plant the seeds of germination for Indian Cinema. Performances are spot-on, especially Nandhu Madhav who portrays Mr. Phalke. Nicely complimenting him is Vibhwari Deshpande as Mrs. Phalke to extent the audience would feel that marriages are indeed made in heaven. If Mr. Phalke is depicted as an eccentric genius, his better-half is no less crazy. There are a few emotional moments in the movie like for instance when Phalke loses his eye-sight or when his son falls ill but what is commendable is that either its depicted humorously or the narrative moves on to the next part. The screenplay and editing should be complimented. Of course, the writer/ director truly deserves standing ovation for choosing Dadasaheb Phalke as his subject. And last but not the least UTV for backing this deserving project. Let me not comment on the chances of "Harishchandrachi Factory" garnering statuettes at Academy awards, however I am confident that you will google and read about Dadasaheb Phalke after watching this movie.

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Vallabh Anwikar

Hi everyone,as i have mentioned i love watching movies more than i love programming...so i have decided to write a kind of review of movies which i see....after 3-4 days finally today i got time to watch "Harishchandrachi Factory"... when i started it i was hoping to see a very serious kind of movie which will depict life "Dadasaheb Phalke-- Father of Indian Cinema"..but it turned out to be a very pleasant, gentle movie....well the movie starts with a maverick man who has left his good printing business and is working as magician doing street shows....he happens to see a "motion picture"..well normally you wont give a damn about this word...but this movie will surely tell u what it really represents......after watching this cinema..he decides to do his own motion picture or "a drama on screen" as people first used to call motion pictures....movie then goes through his efforts to make his dream real...the best thing about movie is not actually the story but the way it is presented on the screen.... there are few scenes which are truly remarkable ..specially where Phalke sells his cupboard to buy books and people started making a big deal out of it..as if someone has died... part where phalke is looking for women actors to portray Taramati and mustache saga....Nandu Madhav has played character extremely well but one thing i couldn't stop noticing about his acting was..it kind of looked like Chalie Chaplin...i dnt know if its true...but u have to c it yourself.... another beautiful aspect of movie was how relation between phalke and his wife is handled...its shear pleasure watching the couple together....Vibhavari Deshpande who enacted Saraswati Phalke has done well job too....Director Paresh Mokashi has done beautiful job in writing as well as directing... portraying a life a man in 97 min is really a tough job.... so in all a nice movie... and a nice tribute to the originator of Indian Cinema which currenlty is biggest film industry in the world....

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