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About Dadasaheb Torne
- Ramchandra Gopal "Dadasaheb" Torne (Marathi: ???????? ????? "?????????" ?????)(13 April 1890 - 19 January 1960) was an Indian director and producer, best known for making the first feature film in India, Shree Pundalik.
- This historic record is well established by an advertisement in The Times of India published on 25 May 1912.
- Several leading reference books on cinema including The Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats, A Pictorial History of Indian Cinema and Marathi Cinema : In Restrospect amply substantiate this milestone achievement of the pioneer Indian feature-filmmaker.He is considered the "Father of Indian cinema."Although Torne made his first film, Shree pundalik (???????, 1912) just under a year before Dhundiraj Govind "Dadasaheb" Phalke made his, it is the latter who is regarded as the father of Indian cinema.
- The distinction may lie with the fact that, unlike Phalke, Torne sent his film overseas for processing.
- Moreover, Torne's Pundalik was 1,500' (c.
- 22 minutes) long, about 1,200' shorter than Phalke's Raja Harischandra, which ran for about 40 minutes.
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