Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kolhapur Cinetone

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Jun 23, 2012, 2:25:43 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Kolhapur Cinetone

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+'''Kolhapur Cinetone'''
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+A rare instance of a film studio funded directly
+by feudal royalty. Amid the popular cultural
+renaissance in the first decades of the 20th C.
+around the court of the Shahu Maharaj at
+Kolhapur, Baburao Painter’s Maharashtra
+Film was already a showpiece. When V.
+Shantaram, Damle-Fattelal and Baburao
+Pendharkar left to start Prabhat in 1929, and
+later when Painter himself resigned to seal the
+fate of Maharashtra Film, numerous efforts
+were made by the Shahu Maharaj himself to
+continue the tradition that had earned
+Kolhapur the title of the ‘Hollywood of Marathi
+film’. The family started the Shalini Cinetone
+exclusively to keep Painter employed. In 1933,
+when Prabhat moved to Pune, they launched
+Kolhapur Cinetone as its rival, enticing
+Baburao Pendharkar, Bhalji Pendharkar and
+Master Vinayak to quit Prabhat and to take
+over this new venture. Apart from Bhalji
+Pendharkar’s mythological, Akashwani (1934)
+and Vinayak’s début feature Vilasi Ishwar
+(1935), the other notable production before the
+studio closed is Dadasaheb Phalke’s only
+sound film, his intended magnum opus,
+Gangavataran (1937).
+
+[[Studio]]