Hello Friends,
Welcome to 'The Cinema Dossier'.
The Cinema Dossier, CD, is a venture to appreciate and promote good cinema. Since December, 1895, the medium of audio-visual story-telling on a giant screen has enthralled each one of us in a way or the other. Cinema has undergone a paradigm shift hence, predominantly in United States of America. European film makers felt their presence in world cinema scene soon after World War II. In the mid fiftes and sixties notable Japanese film-makers joined the wagon. World Cinema was beginning to get exposed and USA was the gateway. Later on, Filmmakers from Iran, China and East Asian countries made it big in the world scene.
All this while, a mammoth film industry was brimming up in the third world, which was to later on produce the maximum number of films in a given year - Indian Film Industry. Cinema came early to India, in 1896. From the day of its incubation, Indian Cinema was segregated into the regional languages Assamese, Bengali, Gujarathi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. After Hindi was proclaimed official language, Hindi cinema was generally accepted all over India. The low cost, dramatic musical churned out in Hindi Cinema gained huge popularity among audience all over India. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada cinema developed their content in the early days, based on Hindu Mythology and Traditional as well as contemporary literature. Malayalam and Bengali cinema relied heavily on literature to produce some of best movies in Indian Cinema history.
Later on, with globalization, hitting India, Hindi cinema re-christened itself as 'Bollywood', unfortunately, matching Hollywood only in name and not content. Tamil, Telugu and kannada cinema followed Hindi Cinema for pattern, flushing out huge chunks of 'Masala' cinema into the Indian Film Fraternity. The trend still continues and has begun to affect the quality of Bengali and Malayalam cinema too.
CD , as an online cinema journal, takes it upon itself to present a analytical review of current and earlier era Cinema, with focus on Pan Indian Cinema.
Once again, welcome and thanks to all the readers.
Your's Sincerely,
Shrey Editor, The Cinema Dossier.
