From silent films to the digital era — Madras’ tryst with cinema https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

An automobile parts dealer who turned his attention to cinema, R. Nataraja Mudaliar set up the The Indian Film Company studio in Madras in 1916, and went on to make the first silent film in south India, Keechaka Vadham

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