1886- clocks and chimes

In Bombay, it is the last day of the semester at the Sir JJ School of Art.

Fellow students tease Phalke about his marriage, as they proceed to the auditorium where the annual awards are being presented to the studetns for their excellence in various arts and crafts.

Mr. Griffith, the Principal, and Mr. Tarry, the Vice-Principal, present their annual report on the institution.

Mr. Tarry announces that they have been able to manufacture glazed pottery that can hold liquids, and have been commissioned to make ceramic insulators for the telephone company, that drawings have been made of all the caves of Ajanta, and that future jobs entrusted to them include building of the telegraph office, and the wood carving for the new station of the BCC and I railway line.

Mr. Tarry then introduces the ex-Principal, Mr. Kipling, and his son, to the audience.

Following this, he introduces Raja Ravi Verma, and invites the students to view his paintings.

The students leave for the exhibition hall. Phalke is accompanied by a young friend who is sceptical of art schools, opining that these schools are basically established to produce aluminium utensils for the Mission hospitals.

Later