HM Reddy’s Telugu venture, Bhakta Prahlada, and the Tamil film Kalidas, also by Reddy, followed the same year according to Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen’s Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema.
India’s first full-length talkie – Ardeshir Irani’s Hindustani language musical, Alam Ara – was released in 1931. Vaidyanathan’s beautiful background score. And it does – about morality, about the despair of the unemployed, about how society values material goods over human beings, about faith in hard work, true love and the randomness of life, all underscored by charming actors and L.
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The poster advertised Pushpaka Vimana as “a silent movie which speaks”. It was not, as it is often described, a silent film: it had sound effects, it was simply dialogueless. Pushpaka Vimana, starring Haasan and Amala (a relative newcomer at the time), released theatrically in 1987. There is no surprise then in learning that when writer-director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao decided to make a film without dialogues, he wanted Haasan as his leading man from the start. If there is a contemporary Indian artiste who can say a lot without saying a word, it is Kamal Haasan. (Editor’s Note: This is Part 10 of a series by film critic and consulting editor, Anna M.M.