We are in our seventy-fourth year of independence and our changing nation is reflected in our movies. What began as a dream for Dada Saheb Phalke in Raja Harishchandra in 1913 was taken forward by Franz Osten in the Himanshu Rai starrer Light of Asia in 1926.
A trifle nervous but full of courage we launched our first talkies Alam Ara in 1931 director Adersh Irani had the whole nation singing ‘De de khuda ke naam pe’. We loved the sound of music in our movies and the filmmakers indulged us by packing a dozen in each film.
RC Bora introduced playback singing in the year 1935 and singer Parul Ghosh recorded ‘Main khush hona chahoon’ on the shooting location, the idea worked and soon we were planning to build a sound studio even though not all songs were released as records as yet.
To be continued