ANIL KAPOOR IN NOIDA TO WISH GODSPEED TO FEATURETTE ON DADASAHEB PHALKE

Commending Sandeep Marwah for celebrating the birth anniversary of the pioneer of India cinema Dhundiraj Govind Phalke at Noida, the renowned cine star Anil Kapoor said that he is hugely impressed by the activities in the film city of north India. He was the guest of honour at a function organized on the 30th April at Marwah Films & Video Studio. In a fitting tribute to the father of Indian films, a biographical featurette was also formally launched by him on this occasion. The producer of this featurette and a highly acclaimed documentary filmmaker Dinkar Chowdhary said that he has spent three long years to find out as much as possible about Dadasaheb Phalke to script for this movie. He mentioned that hailing from an orthodox Brahmin family Dadasaheb Phalke studied art and architecture and worked as a professional photographer before taking to filmmaking. Dadasaheb Phalke also strongly believed in the nationalistic philosophy of Swadeshi, he added. As is well known Dadasaheb Phalke produced the first ever Indian feature film – Raja Harishchandra – in 1913 made several short films, documentaries as well as historical, social and mythological feature films during his working life. The govt. of India instituted the coveted Dadasaheb National Film Award to commemorate the memory of this legendary filmmaker. Dinkar Chowdhary’s featurette will indeed inspire the gen next filmmakers. Addressing the gathering the chairman of Noida Deo Datta fondly recalled having shared the very same dais with Anil Kapoor eleven years ago. He said that the work being done at the Film City in general and Marwah Films & Video Studios in particular has played a significant role in the development of Noida region