Sound arrived in 1931 with the release of the first talkie, the Hindi-language Alam Ara (“Light of the World”). From then on, Indian filmmaking diverged into several regional offshoots in languages other than Hindi, such as Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. After early experiments in silent ...
Motilal, a member of a prosperousBrahmanfamily of Kashmiri origin, early established a lucrative law practice and was admitted to the Allahabad High Court in 1896. He shunned politics untilmiddle age, when, in 1907, atAllahabad, he presided over a provincial conference of theIndian National Congr...