''''1960: Key Events'''


* Bombay State is divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat. Steel production starts at the Durgapur plant. 

* Indian Navy’s first aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, is commissioned in Belfast. 

* The National Museum opens in New Delhi.

* The government implements the 1951 Film Committee recommendation and starts the Film Finance Corporation to give low- interest loans to selected projects. 

* In the late 60s, the FFC emphasises the financing of the independent sector. 

* The Film Institute is started at Pune, on the former Prabhat Studio premises; the Institute for Film Technology is started in Madras. 

* The Hindustan Photo Film Manufacturing Co. starts making b&w X-ray film. 

* Mughal-e-Azam, the most expensive feature to date, is completed. 

* Ranadheera Kanteerava is the first big Kannada hit, establishing its star, Rajkumar. 

* Shri Venkateshwara Mahatyam inaugurates N. T. Rama Rao’s political persona of the ‘living god’. 

* The weekly tabloid Movieland is launched in Madras. 

* Gandhian Sarvodaya workers start a series of protests against indecent film posters and hoardings.