Movements and schools
Classic Bollywood
The golden age of popular Hindi cinema, melodrama, song and excess.
A Hindi film of the fifties lasts three hours, contains six songs, a love story thwarted by caste or money, and an interval. This formula, born in the Bombay studios, addresses an audience speaking many languages and makes up for illiteracy through song and image. Raj Kapoor plays a big-hearted tramp inspired by Chaplin, Mehboob Khan films a peasant woman holding her family alone against the moneylender and the mud, K. Asif ruins his producers with a Mughal fresco that took years to complete.
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- NovelDevdasদেবদাসSarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · 1917A childhood love broken by barriers of caste and fortune, in the rural Bengal of the great landowners, at the beginning of the century.Literature
- CinemaAwaaraआवाराRaj Kapoor · 1951A film-debate between destiny and heredity: the rejected son of a judge, who has become a thief in the streets of Bombay.Cinema
- CinemaMother IndiaMehboob Khan · 1957The life of an indebted peasant woman who raises her sons alone against a moneylender: a rural epic that became the symbol of an India freeing itself.Cinema
- CinemaKaagaz Ke Phoolकागज़ के फूलGuru Dutt · 1959The fall of a successful filmmaker, told from an empty studio: a film about cinema itself.Cinema
- CinemaMughal-e-Azamमुग़ल-ए-आज़मK. Asif · 1960The love of a Mughal prince for a young woman of low condition, and the quarrel that sets him against his father, the emperor.Cinema