| | 1 | ''''1954: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Zhou Enlai visits India, and Nehru goes to Beijing where he signs the ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence’ with Mao Zedong. |
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| | 5 | * The National Gallery of Modern Art opens in New Delhi. |
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| | 7 | * The Lalit Kala (Fine Arts) Akademi and Sahitya (Literature) Akademi open. |
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| | 9 | * The first national film awards go to Shyamchi Aai and Jagat Murari’s short, Mahabalipuram. Awara is a major hit in the USSR. |
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| | 11 | * Abbas’s Munna is the second ‘songless’ film; it was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1955. |
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| | 13 | * Indian film delegations visit the Middle East and the USSR. |
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| | 15 | * Talks between the Film Federation of India and the government fail over All-India Radio’s policy of broadcasting film songs without crediting sources, driving producers into using Radio Ceylon. |
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| | 17 | * The compulsory exhibition of ‘approved films’ (i. e. government propaganda films) in Madras is declared unlawful by the Supreme Court. |
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| | 19 | * The Premier Studio, Mysore’s second studio premises, is started by M. N. Basavarajaiah. |