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Published: 25 February 2018

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So, when was the first dance seen in the movies? In turns out that the answer is the very first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913).. The film is easily available and one can check that after half an hour of start, one person starts playing kartaal, he dances and others join in. In Kaliya Mardan (1919) I counted three places where dance-like movements take place? So, what about the tallies? That is a topic for another day. 

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Published: 21 October 2018

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These are all silent films. Numbers are for first run only. Later they would run in minor circuits and even villages.

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Published: 13 December 2017

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In this early song, I can clearly hear one little bell held in one hand and struck by another held in the second hand. What is more, in the film, one can see Saroj Borkar doing exactly that :)

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