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According to the music director Ravi (Shankar Sharma), the original tune made by Lucilla Pacheco on piano. Hemant Kumar found it to be too western. The Ravi Indianized it on harmonium. Kalyanji (Virji Shah) had imported a new keyboard instrument called clavioline. He then played it on this instrument. The movie and the tune became very popular I remember hearing it again and again in every function of any kind. It was issued on a record.
Here is the record from collection of the late Suresh Chandvankar.
PS: As far as I know, the clavioline was the first keyboard instrument which was used in a film song. Looks like the record was recorded by Anandji, Kalyanji's brother.
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As far as I can tell the first international film festival was held in Venice in 1932.
The festival is still very active. From their website
The first "Esposizione d'Arte Cinematografica" came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale (from 6 July to 21 August 1932) under the auspices of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, President of the Biennale, the sculptor Antonio Maraini, General Secretary, and Luciano De Feo, General Secretary of the International Institute for Educational Cinema, based in Rome. Luciano De Feo was the very first director-selector.
It was earlier called The Exhibition of the Cinematic Arts, now simply The Venice Film Festival.
In the second festival held in 1934, they invited the Indian film industry to send information about the industry, films to be shown and photos.
It was here that the first ever Indian film to win an international honorary diploma was shown, Seeta (1933).
I will be posting some photos from the festival report.
The next photo is that of Sabita Devi
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Ghory and he were the the Laurel and Hardy of India.
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