India’s First talkie ‘Alam Ara’ is now 93-year-old: Only its memory survives not the movie—Amrit Gangar | Hindi Movie News
One of India’s top film historians and curator Amrit Gangar talks about our first talkie ‘Alam Ara‘. He says, “Indian cinema’s irony is that it largely lives in collective memory and the first source, the movie itself. The massive repertoire of ‘songs’ form the great ‘oral and aural’ ‘archive’ that moves this ‘memory’ towards writing … Read more