PhalkeFactory

This website would track the documentary being made by Kamal Swaroop on Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of modern Indian cinema. Kamal Swaroop was the director of acclaimed movies such as Om-Dar-Ba-Dar and Ghashiram Kotwal. He was the assistant director for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi

This is an invitation for a graphic narrative tracing and representing the assimilation and developments in industrial arts and crafts that led to the film entertainment industry by tracing and drawing the life of Dadasaheb Phalke (1870-1944), the father of the Indian film industry, his time traced and re-constructed from relics, remembrances through ages and industrially brought together through collective imagination and various skills.

We invite the participants to go through the material available on the site and make as many links…we are trying to construct a film on phalke’s life and times by converging hundred years of world memory into a singular ageing

The Wiki system which contains the main research material for Phalke is now up and running. There is a lot of material there, but you would need a login to edit them. Reading is free for the time being. If you think you deserve a login for that Wiki, then write to Kamal at his usual email address (which we can’t tell you here because that would be telling) and Kamal would ensure that a login and password to the Wiki reaches you. If you don’t know Kamal’s email address then please ring him up.