Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Gemini Pictures

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Jul 1, 2013, 9:34:30 AM (11 years ago)

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UshaR

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Gemini Pictures

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 Aka Gemini Studios. Best-known Madras studio
 in the 40s for redefining the concept of mass
-entertainment with Chandralekha (1948), the
+entertainment with [[Chandralekha]] (1948), the
 first Madras film to break successfully into the
-Hindi cinema. S.S. Vasan started Gemini as a
+Hindi cinema. [[S.S. Vasan]] started Gemini as a
 distribution agency, the Gemini Pics Circuit,
 distributing and partly financing films by K.
-Subramanyam’s Motion Pics Producers
+[[Subramanyam]]’s Motion Pics Producers
 Combine. When the Combine went bankrupt,
 Vasan bought the studio in 1939 at public
 auction for a mere Rs 86,427-11 (Annas)-9
 (Paise) (according to Randor Guy). The studio’s
-début feature was probably Balkrishna
-Narayan Rao’s Madanakamarajan (1941),
-but it only took off when cameraman-scenarist K. Ramnoth joined it along with his Vauhini
+début feature was probably [[Balkrishna
+Narayan Rao]]’s Madanakamarajan (1941),
+but it only took off when cameraman-scenarist [[K. Ramnoth]] joined it along with his [[Vauhini]]
 partner, art-director A.K. Sekhar. This team
 made most of Gemini’s early features:
@@ -26 +26 @@
 In the early days, the most
 important event in the studio was Uday
-Shankar’s dance extravaganza Kalpana
+Shankar’s dance extravaganza [[Kalpana]]
 (released 1948) which also provided training
 for most of Gemini’s technicians as well as
@@ -35 +35 @@
 before the studio’s second major onslaught on
 the national box office with Apoorva
-Sahodarargal (1949), a trilingual that
+[[Sahodarargal]] (1949), a trilingual that
 established the studio’s dominance in the genre
 of the costumed adventure movie. Although its
-Hindi version Nishan was not a major success,
+Hindi version [[Nishan]] was not a major success,
 Vasan continued making Hindi films, often
-signing them himself: e.g. the Dilip Kumar
-and Dev Anand film Insaniyat (1955),
-Vyjayanthimala’s Raj Tilak (1958) and
-Paigham (1959) starring Dilip Kumar, Raaj
+signing them himself: e.g. the [[Dilip Kumar]]
+and [[Dev Anand]] film [[Insaniyat]] (1955),
+[[Vyjayanthimala]]’s [[Raj Tilak]] (1958) and
+[[Paigham]] (1959) starring Dilip Kumar, Raaj
 Kumar and Vyjayanthimala. They also made
-the megabudget Tamil classic Avvaiyyar
+the megabudget Tamil classic [[Avvaiyyar]]
 (1953). An important later production was
-Motor Sundaram Pillai (1966), Sivaji
-Ganesan’s only film at this studio.
+[[Motor Sundaram Pillai]] (1966), [[Sivaji
+Ganesan]]’s only film at this studio.
 In 1958 the
 studio expanded into the Gemini Colour lab,