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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>1912 - THE MAKING OF RAJA HARISCHANDRA<br /> <br /> <br /> Kashi is staged in Trymbakeshwar.<br /> <br /> The whole unit lives there like a family.<br /> Phalke’s wife Saraswati looks after them.<br /> <br /> Shooting by day and developing by night, the work progresses.<br /> PHOTOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION<br /> <br /> It is well known that every illusion that is seen on the screen takes place before the camera or is recreated for it.<br /> Mountains, rivers, oceans, houses, human beings, animals, birds - everything on the screen is real.<br /> This is the magic of the filmmaker.<br /> <br /> A film must have good photography.<br /> <br /> The moon and the stars will not shine brightly if the sky is cloudy and foggy.<br /> <br /> How would the audience react if the inauspicious maroon color of a widow’s sari were seen on the screen as a ‘Chandrakala’, a gorgeous black sari with silver print?<br /> <br /> If a Subhadra or a Shakuntala comes before the camera chewing a betel leaf, how would it appear if her lips appeared black like those of a chain smoker?<br /> <br /> The rouge applied by actors will look black, creating the impression of hollow cheeks.<br /> <br /> The red and gold embroidered shawl will appear like a rough black rug because red as well as gold photograph as black for the screen.<br /> <br /> The scarlet blanket of a mendicant will appear blackish, and a gold embroidered violet will be white.<br /> <br /> If a scene is taken at noon, the beautiful lady will appear to have a moustache due to the shadow under her nose.<br /> <br /> Even her fair legs will appear dark like those of a Bhila woman, due to the shadow of the sari.<br /> <br /> A snub nose will appear all the more snubbish if the light comes from the front.<br /> <br /> An oval face looks more oval if the light comes from the sides.<br /> <br /> Even healthy and graceful hands look thin if there is too much contrast of light and shade.<br /> <br /> We who are known for our dark complexions have to do our make-up even more carefully.<br /> <br /> <br /> The outdoor scenes are shot at a village on the Pune railway line.<br /> <br /> The villagers mistake the actors’ swords for the real thing.<br /> <br /> Requiring a dancer for one sequence, Phalke trains and hires a dancing girl.<br /> <br /> But her patron arrives and forcefully takes the girl away.<br /> <br /> Saraswatibai, shy of appearing on the screen, refuses to play the Nati.<br /> <br /> ‘Raja Harischandra’ is completed.<br /> <br /> [[21 April 1913, 6. 45 p.m.]]</div>

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