FILM DIRECTOR

Dadasaheb Phalke

1870 - 1944

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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: [d̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke]), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema". His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first Indian movie released in 1913, and is now known as India's first full-length mythological feature film. He made 94 feature-length films and 27 short films in his career, spanning 19 years, until 1937, including his most noted works: Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dadasaheb Phalke has received more than 2,664,146 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Dadasaheb Phalke is the 540th most popular film director (down from 473rd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from India (down from 277th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dadasaheb Phalke ranks 540 out of 2,041. Before him are Andrzej Munk, Denys Arcand, Philip Kaufman, Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, and Olivier Assayas. After him are Wojciech Has, Lindsay Anderson, Henning Carlsen, James Wan, Marcel L'Herbier, and Kenneth Anger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Dadasaheb Phalke ranks 84. Before him are Ada Negri, Osachi Hamaguchi, Hilaire Belloc, Peter Struve, Dirk Jan de Geer, and Enric Prat de la Riba. After him are Motobu Chōki, John Boland, Amadeo Giannini, Charles Tournemire, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, and Francisco S. Carvajal. Among people deceased in 1944, Dadasaheb Phalke ranks 157. Before him are Carl Flesch, Mineichi Koga, Lupe Vélez, Adolf Wagner, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, and Peter Struve. After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Amy Beach, Wilhelm Falley, Eduard Wagner, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Alberts Kviesis.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dadasaheb Phalke ranks 346 out of 1,861. Before him are Wilfred Bion (1897), Jim Corbett (1875), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Pulakeshin II (610), Guru Hargobind (1595), and Bhavabhuti (null). After him are Lindsay Anderson (1923), Kajol (1974), Vijay (1974), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Dadasaheb Phalke ranks 5. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), and Michael Radford (1946). After him are Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Shyam Benegal (1934), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941).

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