Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Filmistan

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Jul 1, 2013, 7:28:13 AM (11 years ago)

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UshaR

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Filmistan

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 == Filmistan ==
 Bombay-based studio; Est: 1943-44 leasing the
-former premises of the Sharda studio.
+former premises of the [[Sharda]] studio.
 Launched by major breakaway group from
-Bombay Talkies led by their production
+[[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
+[[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
+[[Naya Sansar]] (1941) and the colossal hit
+[[Kismet]] (1943). Its subsequent output
 elaborated these into the first consistent
 Filmistan
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 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)
+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
+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
+[[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
+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
+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).