Dadasaheb Phalke Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dadasaheb Phalke Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke

(pronunciation (help·info)) (30 April 1870 â€" 16 February 1944), was

an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of

Indian cinema. His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first

Indian movie in 1913, and is now known as India's first full-length

feature film. He made 95 feature-length films and 27 short films in

his career, spanning 19 years, until 1937, including his most noted

works: Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan

(1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).The

Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for lifetime contribution to cinema, was

instituted in his honour by the Government of India in 1969. The award

is one of the most prestigious awards in Indian cinema and is the

highest official recognition for film personalities in the country. A

postage stamp bearing his likeness was released by India Post to

honour him in 1971. An honorary award from the Dadasaheb Phalke

Academy Mumbai was introduced in the year 2001, for lifetime

achievement in Indian cinema.Dhundiraj Phalke was born on 30 April

1870 at Trimbak, Bombay Presidency into a Marathi-speaking Chitpavan

Brahmin family. His father, Govind Sadashiv Phalke alias Dajishastri,

was a Sanskrit scholar and worked as a Hindu priest conducting

religious ceremonies and his mother, Dwarkabai, was a housewife. The

couple had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Shivrampant,

the eldest, was twelve years elder than Phalke and worked in Baroda.

He briefly worked as the Dewan (Chief Administrator) of the princely

state of Jawhar and died in 1921, at the age of 63. Phalke's second

brother, Raghunathrao, also worked as a priest and died at a young age

of 21. Dajishastri taught Phalke to conduct religious rituals like

yajna and dispensing of medicines. When he was appointed as a

professor of Sanskrit in the Wilson College, Bombay, the family

shifted its base to Bombay. Phalke completed his primary education in

Trimbakeshwar and matriculation was done in Bombay.
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