'''Hindustan Cinema Films Company'''


Est: 1918 in Nasik, Maharashtra. First purely
indigenous film studio with corporate
shareholding. Started by Phalke to replace the
ailing Phalke Films with partners Waman
Shridhar Apte, Mayashankar Bhatt (later
financier for Sharda Studio), Gokuldas
Damodar and Madhavji Jessing. Phalke
resigned from the Board (1919) but returned to
become its chief producer and technical
adviser (1923) as well as its main film-maker,
directing 43 of its 96 films. 35 of the films were
directed by G.V. Sane, 11 by Shinde (including
Tukaram, 1921); other directors include V.S.
Nirantar (4), Kashinath Bharadi, Munshi Abbas
and Abhaychand Lahiri who each made one
film there. The first studio to have its own
distribution operation (run briefly by Bhogilal
Dave) with offices in Bombay and Madras.
Started offshoot Bharat Film (1919). Its last
film, Phalke’s Setu Bandhan (1932), was postsynchronised
for sound but the studio failed in
1933.

[[Studios]]