Celebrating a century of Bollywood

A hundred years ago, on May 3, 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke, who is considered to be the father of Indian Cinema, released his epochal feature film Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra. He had no idea that they were about to unleash something so huge that the next 100 years would completely change the way we would view entertainment. Eventually it was in the 1930s with the introduction of sound in the film Alam Ara that Indian cinema took the first steps to melding itself into an essential part of the Indian identity, thus eventually evolving into what we now know as Bollywood. With a journey from silent,...