INDIAN FILM INSTITUTE

Even as one tries to come to terms with Sridevi’s demise the one thought that is repeating itself is, is she really gone?

Kinetoscopes were comprised of several images which were run at a rate of 12 images per second and were three to five seconds long.  Who knew this medium would become the largest entertainment industry in world. Today’s cinemas are the result of first entrepreneurs who wanted to earn money showing motion pictures to people.

The Indian movie industry is a gargantuan entity. From its multiple production centres and in 20-odd languages, it produces nearly 2,000 films a year – more than the output of China and the US counted together. In 2015, 1910 million movie tickets were sold in India. Compare that with the United States (1268 million) and China (830 million) and it becomes clear that in the game of statistics the world’s most prolific film-produ...