''''1954: Key Events''' * Zhou Enlai visits India, and Nehru goes to Beijing where he signs the ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence’ with Mao Zedong. * The National Gallery of Modern Art opens in New Delhi. * The Lalit Kala (Fine Arts) Akademi and Sahitya (Literature) Akademi open. * The first national film awards go to [[Shyamchi Aai]] and Jagat Murari’s short, Mahabalipuram. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awara|Awara]] is a major hit in the USSR. * [[Abbas]]’s [[Munna]] is the second ‘songless’ film; it was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1955. * Indian film delegations visit the Middle East and the USSR. * 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. * The compulsory exhibition of ‘approved films’ (i. e. government propaganda films) in Madras is declared unlawful by the Supreme Court. * The Premier Studio, Mysore’s second studio premises, is started by M. N. Basavarajaiah.