Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Filmistan

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May 28, 2012, 9:30:16 AM (12 years ago)

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Parth

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Filmistan

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+== Filmistan ==
+Bombay-based studio; Est: 1943-44 leasing the
+former premises of the Sharda studio.
+Launched by major breakaway group from
+Bombay Talkies led by their production
+controller Rai Bahadur Chunilal and producer
+Shashadhar Mukherjee. Their first film was
+Gyan Mukherjee’s Chal Chal Re Naujawan
+(1944, with Ashok Kumar). The studio
+continued more or less from S. Mukherjee’s
+two influential Bombay Talkies productions:
+Naya Sansar (1941) and the colossal hit
+Kismet (1943). Its subsequent output
+elaborated these into the first consistent
+Filmistan
+96
+generic codification and regulation of a post-
+Independence All-India Film market-place. By
+the early 50s, the ‘ film factory’ (as B.R.
+Chopra, who worked there briefly, called it)
+had revolutionised distribution with midbudget
+genre productions selling mainly on
+their star value and their music. The approach
+was exemplified by Gyan Mukherjee himself
+and extended by P.L. Santoshi, Subodh
+Mukherjee, Nasir Hussain and Najam Naqvi,
+with stars Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Dilip
+Kumar, Shammi Kapoor and Nalini
+Jaywant, and music directors C. Ramchandra
+and S.D. Burman. Following the hits
+Shaheed (1948), Shabnam (1949: establishing
+the famous star pair of Dilip Kumar and Kamini
+Kaushal and featuring Burman’s music) and
+Samadhi (1950), Filmistan’s style arguably had
+the largest impact of any studio on later
+independent commercial film-making in Hindi.
+This is evident e.g. in Manmohan Desai’s
+cinema. Other notable Filmistan cineastes are
+P.L. Santoshi, Nandlal Jaswantlal, Kishore
+Sahu and Ramesh Saigal. The studio yielded
+yet another mutation when Shashadhar
+Mukherjee moved out to start Filmalaya (1958).
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+[[Studio]]