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 ...
initially groomed by his maternal grand-uncle, Nissar Hussain Khan, a “self-made” artist from the Rampur-Sahaswan tradition, who gave him quite a tough introduction to the art form. It helped that young Rashid was a scholar at ITC’s newly formed Sangeet Research Academy, ...