100 years of Indian cinema
An employee at a travelling tent cinema company stands between cut-outs of Bollywood legends Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha – stars of India’s billion-dollar film industry, which makes over a thousand movies a year.
May 3, 2013 is the centenary of the debut public screening of India's first feature film "Raja Harishchandra". To mark the anniversary, Reuters photographers spent time documenting different aspects of Indian cinema today.
A film crew member holds up a clapper board during the shooting of the Bollywood movie "Black Home".
A cinematographer shoots, as other members of the film crew look on.
Bollywood actress Chitrashi Rawat lies in a plastic drum as she is briefed during the shoot for 'Black Home'.
A crew member holds out a light cutter during the film shoot.
Actress Nainaa Jolly performs during the filming of a low-budget Hindi movie.
An employee of Anoop Touring Talkies, a travelling tent cinema company, speaks into a microphone as he touts a film.
People walk past posters advertising different Bollywood movies.
Children watch a Hindi film during a festival celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema.
Customers wait to buy cinema tickets for a Bollywood movie.
A security guard peeps through a door to watch a Hindi movie being shown during a festival marking 100 years of Indian cinema.
An actor performs in a play about the life of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, whose black-and-white silent film "Raja Harishchandra" (King Harishchandra) held audiences spellbound at its first public screening on May 3, 1913, in Mumbai.
Actors perform in the play about Phalke's life. The famous filmmaker's debut movie was about a righteous Indian king who never told a lie.
Audience members lean back as they watch a Hindi movie being screened during the festival celebrating the centenary of Indian cinema.
Audience members sit in a theatre before the start of the play about Phalke's life.
