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Hiralal Sen
Bengali filmmaker and photographer (–)
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| Born | 2 August Manikganj, Bengal Presidency, British India (present day Bangladesh) |
| Died | 26 October () (aged&#;49) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, filmmaker |
| Spouse | Hemangini Devi |
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Hiralal Sen (Bengali: হীরালাল সেন, Hiralal Shen; 2 August – 26 October [1]) is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers.
In , he filmed the popular Alibaba and Forty Thieves, the first full-length Indian film.[citation needed] A noted photographer, he is also credited with creating India's first advertisingfilms and quite possibly India's first political film.
Sen, Hiralal a cine-personality was born in Bogjudi village under the district of Manikganj in Inwhile a pupil of I. Sc he watched the cinema, arranged by Luminary Theater and from then he felt very much interest to cinema or film and in pursuing that he left academic study. He then started to exercise bioscope and in the yearhe started to exhibit cinema in the Classic Theater in Kolkata.A fire in destroyed all of his films.
Early life
Hiralal Sen's native home was in Bagjuri, a village in Manikganj, approximately 80&#;km from Dhaka, the present-day capital of Bangladesh.[2] Although he was the son of a successful lawyer of a Baidyazamindar[3] family of that region, he grew up in Calcutta.[2] In , a production troupe en route to Paris screened a certain Professor Stevenson's short film along with the stage show, The Flower of Persia at the Star Theatre in Calcutta.[4] Borrowing Stevenson's camera, Sen made his first movie, "A Dancing Scene" from the opera The Flower of Persia.[4] With assistance from his brother, Motilal Sen, he bought an Urban Bioscope from Charles Urban's Warwick Trading Company in London.[4] In the following year, with his brother, he formed the Royal Bioscope company.[4]
Filmmaking career
In , Hiralal was in Kolkata actor Theatre, West Bengal (earlier recognizable as Calcutta)and was watching "flower of Persia".
That theatre act had interval were some quick film was played and that was the moment he had an idea. He borrowed a camera from the plays director and recorded the whole Bloom of Persia play.
Introduction to Hiralal Sen, the First Filmmaker of India ...: Hiralal Sen (Bengali: হীরালাল সেন, Hiralal Shen; 2 August – 26 October [1]) is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers. In , he filmed the widespread Alibaba and Forty Thieves, the first full-length Indian film.Furthermore, with added funds by his father he got his first cinematograph camera, and started India's first movie enterprise named - "Royal Bioscope film company" in itself. In a creative career that extended up to , Hiralal Sen made over forty short films.[5] Most of the films he made depicted scenes from theatrical productions played at Amarendra Dutta's Classic Theatre in Calcutta.
At that time unprocessed film was imported into the country.[4] Between and , he produced many films for Classic Theatre including Bhramar, Hariraj, and Buddhadev.[4] His longest film, produced in and titled Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, was also based on an original Classic Theatre performance.[2][4] However, not much is known about this film film since it was never screened.[2] He also produced a number of advertising films and newsfilms taking commissions.[4] Having made two films advertising Jabakusum Hair Oil and Edwards Tonic, he became the first Indian to use film for advertising purposes.[2][6]
In , Sen advertised a "genuine Swadeshi film of our hold make".
Documenting the "Anti-Partition Demonstration and Swadeshi movement at the Town Hall, Calcutta, on the 22nd September ", it is, according to critic Samik Bandyopadhyay, India's first political film.[5]
Royal Bioscope made its last film in [4]
Filmography
| Year | Title |
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| Alibaba and the Forty Thieves | |
| between and | Bhramar |
| between and | Hariraj |
| between and | Buddhadev |
| Anti-Partition Demonstration and Swadeshi movement at the Town Hall, Calcutta, on the 22nd September |
Later years
Hiralal Sen's later years were filled with disappointment and economic hardship.[2]Jamshedji Framji Madan of the Elphinstone Bioscope Company had long surpassed him in terms of success.[5] To compound his misery, he was also suffering from cancer.[citation needed] A few days before his death in , a fire broke out destroying every film he ever made.[2][4]
In famous culture
in , A film named 'Hiralal' has made on his life starring Kinjal Nanda.[7]