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The Dawning of Indian CinemaThe history of Bollywood actually begins with the dawning of the larger phenomenon of Indian cinema, which began at the end of the ninteenth century. On July 7, 1896 the Lumiere Brothers' Chinematographe screened six soundless short films at the Watson Hotel, Esplanade Mansion in Bombay. The first actual films made and screened by an Indian took place in 1899, when Harishchandra Bhatvadekar (also known as Save Dada) shot two short films and exhibited them under Edison's projecting kinetoscope.
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