Jalaja (film)

Jalaja
Promotional poster
Original titleஜலஜா அல்லது நாட்டிய மஹிமை
Directed byR. R. Gautam
G. K. Seshagiri
Screenplay byManjeri S. Isvaran
Dr. V. Raghavan
G. K. Seshagiri
Story byManjeri S. Isvaran
Dr. V. Raghavan
G. K. Seshagiri
Produced byG. K. Seshagiri
StarringBhanumathi
Lakshmi
G. K. Seshagiri
K. S. Gopalakrishan
CinematographyRajnikant Pandya
Minoo Billimoria
Edited byFakir Mohammad
Music byA. N. Kalyanasundaram
Production
company
Sagar Renaissance Theatre
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributing Co.
Release date
  • May 1938 (1938-May)[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Jalaja or Natya Mahimai (transl. Jalaja or The Glory of Dance) is a 1938 Indian Tamil-language dance film written by Manjeri S. Isvaran, Dr. V. Raghavan and G. K. Seshagiri. The film was directed by R. R. Gautam and G. K. Seshagiri and produced by the Sagar Renaissance Theatre, a joint production by G. K. Seshagiri’s Renaissance Theatre and Sagar Movietone.[2] It stars Bhanumathi[a], Lakshmi, G. K. Seshagiri and K. S. Gopalakrishan[b] in lead roles. The film is marked as India's first dance film.[2] It is also dedicated to Bhanumathi’s cousin, Bharatanatya Art Expert Srimathi Varalakshmi, who died early on in the film’s production. No print of the film is known to survive, making it a lost film.[3]

  1. ^ Patel, Baburao (May 1938). "Filmindia". Vol. 4, no. 1. p. 67. Retrieved 20 August 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
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  3. ^ Krishnan, Hari (2019). Celluloid Classicism (in Tamil). Wesleyan University Press. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-0-8195-7888-4. Retrieved 20 May 2020.


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