''1950: Key Events'''

* India declares itself a sovereign democratic republic (26 January): population 350 million. The Republic is elected member of the UN Security Council for two years. 

* The Assam earthquake (1 August). 

* The Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, starts; ten years later, it becomes the pre-eminent centre for contemporary Indian art.

* Jean Renoir and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray|Satyajit Ray]] meet on the shoot of The River in Bengal. 

* [[Nemai Ghosh]] makes [[Chinnamul]] in Calcutta. 

* The celebrated Tamil film [[Ezhai Padum Padu]] establishes [[Ramnoth]], [[Nagaiah]] and [[Arudra]]. 

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._R._Subburaman|C. R. Subburaman]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudrala_Raghavacharya|Samudrala Raghavacharya]], [[Vedantam Raghavaiah]] and others start the [[Vinoda Studio]]. 

* [[Vijaya Pictures]] starts with [[Shavukaru]]. 

* The Pakistan government levies a tax of Re 1 per foot on all imported Indian films.