| Marathi Cinema | |
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| No. of screens | Approx 610 in Maharashtra state of India.[1] |
| Main distributors | Aatpat Production Rasika Productions Dreaming 24/7 Productions Almonds Creations Everest Entertainment Pickle Entertainment and Media AP Communications Swarali Films Creation Six Sense Film Production Mulakshar Productions Planet Marathi |
| Produced feature films (2022)[2] | |
| Total | 120 (Theatrical) |
| Gross box office (2023)[3] | |
| National films | India: ₹201 crore (US$24 million) |
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Marathi Cinema, also known as Marathi film industry, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Marathi language widely spoken in the state of Maharashtra. It is based in Mumbai. It is the oldest film industry of India and one of the leaders in filmmaking in the Indian film industry.[4]
Raja Harishchandra, directed by Dadasaheb Phalke and released in 1913, was the first Marathi-language film ever made, and was also India's first full-length feature film. The claim is disputed and some claim that Dadasaheb Torne's Shree Pundalik (1912) was the first film made in Maharashtra.[5][6][7] The first Marathi talkie film was Ayodhyecha Raja,[8] released in 1932, one year after Alam Ara, the first Hindi talkie. All Marathi films until then were silent films with intertitles. Pinjara (1972), directed by V Shantaram, was first colour film in Marathi cinema.[9]
Kolhapur was a centre for film production during the 20th century, though currently, a majority of films are made in Mumbai.[4] During Marathi cinema's infancy between the 1910s and 1930s, which only had silent films, the majority of films were made on Hindu mythological subjects. Later during the 1970s, films were made on rural stories. Between the 1980s and 1990s, comedy and thriller films started to flourish. Since the turn of the millennium, there have been films based on social subjects and biographical dramas. Although the industry is much smaller than Bollywood (which is also based in Mumbai), Marathi cinema is tax free at the privilege of the government of Maharashtra, and is experiencing growth in recent years.
- ^ "STATEWISE NUMBER OF SINGLE SCREENS". Film Federation of India. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "List of featurefilms Certified in 2022" (PDF).
- ^ "Box Office 2023: Punjabi films grossed Rs. 235 crores, Marathi films grossed Rs. 201 crores, Bengali films grossed Rs. 66 crores in 2023". Bollywood Hungama. Hungama Digital Media Entertainment. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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Maharashtratimeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Dadasaheb Torne, not Dadasaheb Phalke, was pioneer of Indian Cinema". DNA India.
- ^ "Films of Prabhat Film Company". Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "Why Marathi..." Outlook. 23 May 2022.