'''1936: Key Events'''

* The [[Progressive Writers Association]] conference, started in London in 1935, has its first all-India conference at Lucknow. 

* The All- India Kisan Sabha, founded alongside the Congress session in Lucknow, publishes N. G. Ranga’s Kisan Manifesto making a series of ‘minimum demands’ on behalf of small landowners, tenants and landless labourers. 

* All-India Radio is started. 

* Orissa and Bihar become independent states of India.

* [[Amar Jyoti]] is shown in Venice. 

* [[Master Vinayak]] and cameraman Pandurang Naik co- found Huns Pictures; the Telugu company Saraswati Talkies debuts with [[Draupadi Vastrapaharanam]]. 

* Sarathi Films, started the same year, presided over [[Gudavalli Ramabrahmam]]’s early work in the reform genre (e. g. [[Raitu Bidda]], 1939). [[Raja Sandow]]’s Vasantsena launches the prolific career of the Tamil comedy duo [[N. S. Krishnan]] and T. A. Mathuram. 

* [[Franz Osten]] joins the Nazi Party. 

* [[Jaddanbai]] starts Sangeet Film with films featuring her daughter [[Nargis]] as a child actress. 

* [[Sohrab Modi]] and Rustom Modi start [[Minerva Movietone]]. 

* The Bengal Motion Picture Association is founded in Calcutta. 

* The second All-India Motion Picture Convention (Madras).