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Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar filmed a wrestling mat...
2027-03-16
India produced its first motion picture film
in 1896 — one year after cinema was invented.
Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar filmed a wrestling match in Mumbai in 1896, one year after the Lumières invented cinema in Paris. What eventually became Bollywood began that very year.
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