Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Krishna Film Company

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Jun 23, 2012, 2:35:01 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Krishna Film Company

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+'''Krishna Film Company'''
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+Silent studio; Est: 1924 as a diversification of
+the Krishna Film Laboratory in Bombay by
+Maneklal Patel, a former exhibitor in
+Ahmedabad, scenarist (usually under name of
+Krishna Kumar), film-maker and partner in the
+Kohinoor Studio. Among the most successful
+of Kohinoor’s offshoots, they made 44 films
+1925-31, including works by Luhar’s partner
+Harshadrai Mehta, Kanjibhai Rathod,
+Mohanlal Shah, A.P. Kapur and Prafulla Ghosh,
+cameramen Gordhanbhai Patel and Ambalal
+Patel and actors such as Gulab, Ermeline,
+Nandram and Rampiary. Its most famous silent
+productions were Prafulla Ghosh’s mammoth
+4-part serial, Hatimtai (1929), the muchdiscussed
+(e.g. by the 1928 Cinematograph
+Committee) Janjirne Jankare (1927) and the
+K.M. Munshi story Kono Vank? The studio
+made a major financial investment in sound as
+Krishnatone, making 5 talkies in 1931 (4 by
+Rathod), but it closed in 1935 following major
+litigation concerning their last film,
+Fashionable India (1935), with financiers
+Kapurchand & Co. and the agency supplying
+imported film stock. In the silent days, Krishna
+filmed the work of several noted Gujarati
+novelists, e.g. Narayanji Vassanji Thakker,
+Gopalji Delwadakar, Shaida, K.M. Munshi,
+Champshi Udeshi and Ramanlal Desai, and also
+hired some of them as scenarists.
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+[[Studio]]