Dadasaheb phalke biography channel
India's first major film was directed (also scripted and produced) by a professional photographer and printer, Dadasaheb Phalke aka Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (India, ), the "father of the Indian cinema", using equipment that he had specifically imported from Europe: the minute Raja Harishchandra (), based on the "Mahabharata" and concerned with legendary king Harishchandra, a film of.