1924: Key Events

• First radio programme, broadcast privately with a 40w transmitter, by the Madras Presidency Club Radio. The station ran for three years.

• Dhiren Ganguly? exhibits Nanubhai Desai and B. P. Mishra?’s Razia Begum in Hyderabad; the story of a Muslim princess falling in love with a Hindu leads to Ganguly’s expulsion by the Nizam and the closure of his Lotus Film Co.

• Nanubhai Desai and others start Saraswati Film. Maneklal Patel starts Krishna Film.

• Kamala Movietone is started in Lahore.

• India’s first periodical exclusively devoted to cinema, Mouj Majah (Gujarati), is launched in Bombay by J. K. Dwivedi.

• Hemendrakumar Roy and Premankur Atorthy start Nachghar, a weekly Bengali theatre and performing arts journal also publishing essays on film.