Workshops
The workshop locations are as follows—
1. Trymbakeshwar – 1870 – 80
Childhood –The fifth head of Brahma - Temple - Scriptures - Shadow puppets – Magic Lantern - Kath dacha - Early mechanical toys -Caves – Myth – Descent of Gaga
2. Bombay – 1881 - 86
Sir JJ School of Arts - Tracing, Drawing & Molding – Introduction to Raja Ravi Verma – Galaxy of musicians – Marathi stage musicals – Myth & Play ‘Shakuntala’
3. Baroda – 1887 - 95
Kala Bhavan - Photography –Music – Magic - First marriage – Myth & Play ‘Urvashi Purva’
4. Godhra – 1896 - 98
Professional photographer – Backdrop paintings for stage – Introduction to Raja Deen Dayal – Plague – Death of first wife – Madness & Magic – Myth & Play ‘Nala Damayanti’
5. Pune & other cities – 1899 - 1902
Second marriage – Draftsman in Dept. of Archeology – Myth of Sati
6. Lonavala – 1903 - 08
Lithography – Calendar art – Advertising – Obscenity case against Ravi Verma - Death of Ravi Verma
7. Bombay – 1908 - 13
Returns from Germany after studying tri-color printing processes – Illustrated magazines – Press Act – Swaraj & Swadeshi – Blindness – Life of Christ – Making of ‘Raja Harischandra’
8. Nasik – 1913 - 20
Phalke’s studio – ‘Mohini Bhasmasur’, ‘Sati Savitri’, ‘Lanka Dahan’, - Paisa Fund - Hindustan Film Company - ‘Shri Krishna Janam’, ‘Kalia Mardan’ – Birth of Indian film industry – Division of film territories – Resigns from Hindustan Film Company
9. Varanasi – 1920 - 22
Exile - Writes ‘Rangabhoomi’, a play about the world of theatre – Declared dead – The Harischandra myth backfires in life
10. Nasik – 1923 - 36
Returns to Hindustan Film Company as production overseer – Cinematography Act – Arrival of Sound Cinema – Tries to add sound to his silent film ‘Setu Bandhan’ – after failure in talkies, sets up small business in making enamel boards
11. Kolhapur – 1936 - 38
Making of ‘Gangavataran’ – Transporting the Himalayas to Kolhapur by whitewashing the Sahyadri mountain range
12. Pune - 1938
Poverty – Failure – Rise of Prabhat Studios
13. Bombay - 1938
Felicitated at the Silver Jubilee celebration of the Indian film industry – Given grant to build house in Nasik
14. Nasik - 1938 - 44
World War 2 – Film musicals – Children – Amnesia – Retreat into childhood – Death