Actors perform in a play about the life of Dadasaheb Phalke during a festival celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema in New Delhi April 30, 2013. Indian cinema marks 100 years since Dhundiraj Govind Phalke's black-and-white silent film "Raja Harishchandra" (King Harishchandra) held audiences spellbound at its first public screening on May 3, 1913, in Mumbai. Indian cinema, with its subset of Bollywood for Hindi-language films, is now a billion-dollar industry that makes more than a thousand films a year in several languages. It is worth 112.4 billion rupees (over $2 billion) and leads the world in terms of films produced and tickets sold. Picture taken April 30, 2013.
Indian Bollywood film actor Govinda attends the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema and the 144th Dadasaheb Phalke Jayanti Awards' Ceremony in Mumbai on April 30, 2013.
Indian former President, Pratibha Patil (R), the wife of deceased film director Yash Chopra, Pamela Chopra (C) and Indian Bollywood film actor Hrithik Roshan attend the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema and the 144th Dadasaheb Phalke Jayanti Awards' Ceremony in Mumbai on April 30, 2013.
Indian Bollywood film actress Urmila Matondkar (L) greets Indian former President, Pratibha Patil (R) as Indian Bollywood film actor Hrithik Roshan looks on during the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema and the 144th Dadasaheb Phalke Jayanti Awards' Ceremony in Mumbai on April 30, 2013.
A staff member is seen through a gap in life-size cut-outs of Bollywood stars as he walks inside the premises of the Anup Touring Talkies tent cinema at a ground in central Mumbai on April 20, 2013. To mark 100 years of Indian Cinema, a Marathi film 'Touring Talkies' is being screened in a makeshift tent theatre just like the days of yore, in its pre-multiplex and pre-single screen glory dating back 50 years. The tents, keeping in mind modern audiences, will have plush seating, air conditioning and popcorn and cola alongside fresh sugar-cane juice, roasted groundnuts and gram and pickle and other tit-bits. The cinema will screen four shows per day for a week. The idea of touring talkies was the brainchild of the doyne of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke, after he saw the British watching movies in tents. The touring cinema would travel through rural India and screen movies in makeshifts tents. At present, one can only find these talkies - whose sweltering tents and basic facilities contrast with the plush, air-conditioned multiplexes springing up in Indian cities, during Jatras (village fairs) in the interiors of the state.
A cinema-goer collects her ticket from a counter outside the premises of the Anup Touring Talkies tent cinema at a ground in central Mumbai on April 20, 2013. To mark 100 years of Indian Cinema, a Marathi film 'Touring Talkies' is being screened in a makeshift tent theatre just like the days of yore, in its pre-multiplex and pre-single screen glory dating back 50 years. The tents, keeping in mind modern audiences, will have plush seating, air conditioning and popcorn and cola alongside fresh sugar-cane juice, roasted groundnuts and gram and pickle and other tit-bits. The cinema will screen four shows per day for a week. The idea of touring talkies was the brainchild of the doyne of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke, after he saw the British watching movies in tents. The touring cinema would travel through rural India and screen movies in makeshifts tents. At present, one can only find these talkies - whose sweltering tents and basic facilities contrast with the plush, air-conditioned multiplexes springing up in Indian cities, during Jatras (village fairs) in the interiors of the state.
