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Silent · 1913 · 15 min

Raja Harishchandra

Dadasaheb Phalke’s 1913 picture, widely honoured as the first Indian feature. A king is tested on his word. This shelf uses a silent archive copy of the surviving film, not a later retelling.

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Source
Dadasaheb Phalke, 1913, Internet Archive copy
Licence
Public domain
Why it is here
A 1913 Indian film. The picture is in the public domain. Playback is the Archive file named for this item. VrushnaTV does not own the film.