Bengali Movies

Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language film making industries in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. The Bengali film industry is known for producing many of Indian cinema's most critically acclaimed global Parallel Cinema and art films, with several of its filmmakers gaining international acclaim and prominence at the Indian National Film Awards over the decades.

As of 2016, the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata (Tollygunge) has produced more than 2,000 movies. There are around 200 active production houses in West Bengal. Below are some of the blogs about movies and videos resolution:

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Kolkata alone contributes 80–90% of the daily Bengali film business in India. Bengali films have been a part of the Indian film industry for over 100 years.

Bengali cinema was the centre of Indian cinema in the 1930s and accounted for a quarter of India's film output in the 1950s. The industry holds the Guinness World Record for producing more films than any other film industry in a year.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for lifetime contribution to cinema, was instituted in 1969, by the Government of India. In 1977, Satyajit Ray was honoured with the Bharat Ratna.

The highest award of the Bengali Film Industry is the Banga Bibhushan (Bengal Pride). The awards were started in 1990 and are organised by Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA) till 2010 and later by West Bengal State Government from 2011 onwards.

When Did Bengali Movies Start

The first Bengali-language movie was the silent feature Billwamangal, produced by the Madan Theatre Company and released on 8 November 1919, only six years after the first full-length Indian feature film, Raja Harish Chandra, was released.

The first Bengali film to be made as a talkie was Jamai Shashthi (1931), directed by Nitin Bose.

The 1930s saw the surge of cinema in Bengal, with the trend being continued by new filmmakers. Earlier, films would run for years due to a lack of competition from other films. Non-Bengali films such as Aparadhi Kanya (1937) and Devdas (1937) were made in Bengal.

The 1940s saw the prominence of a parallel cinema movement and increased political strife, leading to the riots of 1946.[2] Producers such as Sukumar Dasgupta ventured into new cinematic forms, making unconventional films like Chinnamul (1950).

Why Bengali Movies are Failing

There is no shortage of excellent Bengali movies. And yet, the Bengali film industry has been struggling for years. It is the fifth-biggest producer of films in India.

But it is a very distant fifth. The biggest film industry, Bollywood, makes almost as many movies in one year as the entire Bengali film industry has made in its entire history:

But why does Bollywood make so many more movies? Why are Bengali movies failing?

The answer lies in a simple economics concept: diminishing returns. The biggest reason why there are so few Bengali movies is simply that making Bengali movies is bad business.

Let us consider a Bollywood producer. He can make a movie that will be seen by thousands and thousands of people, maybe even by millions. The larger audience means more tickets sold, more television rights sold, and more advertising money earned.

The more money he earns, the better his business prospects appear to be. He makes another movie, with similar results.

And he keeps making movies because each one makes him more and better money than the last — until eventually diminishing returns set in and he no longer makes any money from his latest movie at all.

Some Facts About Bengali Movies

Bengali films have made a significant contribution to Indian cinema, including the production of films in other languages. The earliest Bengali film to be made was Billwamangal (1919), produced by Madan Theatre, Calcutta.

In 1919, the first Bengali feature film, Billwamangal was released in Calcutta and simultaneously released in Bombay on the same day with a different cast.

Subsequently, Dhirendra Nath Ganguly established the Indo British Film Co, the first Bengali owned production company which soon became one of the leading production houses in Bengal with films such as Bhisma Pratigya (1926), directed by Premankur Atrophy.

In 1928, Jyotish Sarkar directed the first Bengali talkie film: Jamai Shashthi.

Contemporary films are now often fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish.

Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack (a graphic recording of the spoken words, music and other sounds that accompany the images which run along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it.

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