Malayalam films continued to be made mainly by Tamil producers until 1947, when the first major film studio, Udaya, was established in Kerala, in Alleppey (Alappuzha) by Kunchacko, who earned fame as a film producer and director. It was produced at Chennai (then Madras) in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. Nottani with a screenplay and songs written by Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai. The first talkie in Malayalam was Balan, released in 1938. As a result, the second movie's exhibition lasted only four days. However, it became stranded in a legal battle over copyright issues and the court ordered the confiscation of the prints. The second film, Marthanda Varma, based on a novel by C. Daniel founded the first film studio, 'The Travancore National Pictures Limited' in Kerala.
Daniel, a businessman with no prior film experience.
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The shooting of the first Malayalam film, the silent movie Vigathakumaran, was started in 1928 the film was released in Trivandrum Capitol Theatre on November 7, 1930. Daniel, and for this work he is credited as the father of Malayalam cinema. The first film to be made in Malayalam was Vigathakumaran, which was released in 1930. In the early days, Tamil, Hindi and English films were exhibited in these theatres. Soon such cinema halls were established in other major cities of Kerala. In 1913, the first electrically operated film projector was established (in Thrissur again) by Jose Kattukkaran and was called the "Jose Electrical Bioscope".
The first cinema hall in Kerala, with a manually operated film projector, was opened in Thrissur by K. Films such as Piravi, Swaham, Marana Simhasanam, Chemmeen, Mathilukal and Vanaprastham were also screened and won awards at several international film festivals. Rajiv Anchal's Guru (1997) and Salim Ahamed's Adaminte Makan Abu (2011) are the only Malayalam films to be sent by India as its official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. The world's first film with just one actor in the star cast was the Malayalam film The Guard (2001). The first CinemaScope film produced in South India was the Malayalam film Thacholi Ambu (1978). The first 3-D film produced in India, My Dear Kuttichathan (1984), was made in Malayalam. In the 2000s, the Malayalam film industry returned and established itself both in Kochi and Trivandrum with a major chunk of locations, studios and production facilities.
Later, the industry shifted to Chennai (formerly Madras), which then was the capital of the South Indian film industry. Although the film industry started to develop and flourish only by the late-1940s. It is also one of the largest producers of parallel cinema in India.Īt first (beginning in the 1920s), the Malayalam film industry was based in Trivandrum. The industry is the fourth largest film industry in India. Malayalam cinema has pioneered various technical, thematic and production techniques among films in India. Malayalam cinema is known for its realistic portrayal of relevant subjects in films with less commercial elements. The Malayalam Cinema, is the Indian film industry based in both Trivandrum and Kochi, Kerala, India, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language.
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