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Sound Cultures in Indian Cinema
The Media Lab : Jadavpur University

 

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An advertisement of Sushil Majumdar’s ‘Sesh Parichay’ music directed by Hemanta Mukhopadhyay and Produced by Spar Pvt. Ltd.
 

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An advertisement of Niren Lahiri’s ‘Jadubhatta’ music directed by Jnan Prakash Ghosh and distributed by Nandan Pictures Ltd.
 

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The advertisement for film Ajanta Cinetone’s Rangila Rajput (Mohan Bhavnani, 1933) highlighted a “lot of riding, fighting & swimming,” echoing and revising the “100 percent talking, singing, dancing” of the early…
 

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Advertisement of Sagar Movietone’s “super talkies” in the Cinema. The advert highlights “clear recording, able direction, scientific singing” etc., as the hallmarks of Sagar’s super talkies. Prominently, the…
 

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Fezi Sound System was used for Elephanta Movietone’s 1932 talkie Pakdaman Raqasa or Innocent Dancing Girl directed by Shah G. Agha. Nazir Mohammad himself recorded the sound, and the film was advertised for distributors and exhibitors as one…