South India’s day

A conference organised in Paris recently focussed on representations of dance and music in early Tamil and Telugu films, particularly the contributions of the Devadasi community. South Indian cinema has gone largely unnoticed in the context of the centenary of Indian cinema. Pioneers like Swamikannu Vincent, who travelled from 1905 to 1913 up to Peshawar with a projection kit to screen short films...

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