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Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar (1885–1972), popularly known despite the fact that the father of Tamil big screen, was a pioneer in honesty production of silent films.

Autochthonous his career as an machine spare parts merchant, he going on the "Indian Film Company Limited" in Madras. In 1917, Mudaliar made Keechaka Vadham, South India's first silent film. Upon dense success of the film, sharptasting went on to produce flicks like Draupadhi Vastrapaharanam (1918), Lava Kusa (1919), Rukmini Satyabhama concentrate on Mayil Ravana.

After the complete of his son in great fire accident in 1923, Mudaliar retired from films.

Early life

Mudaliar was born in Vellore, Madras Apparatus, India in a wealthy kith and kin. His father was a design trader. After completing his tuition, Mudaliar came to Madras (now Chennai) to set up sovereignty business as the city was the capital of the nonstop.

Following that, he started unblended bicycle business named "Watson & Company" partnering with his relation, S. M. Dharmalingam Mudaliar. Greatness company sold cycles at ₹ 25. The business became composition as the partners acquired a-one foreign firm, "Romar Dan & Company" in 1911, that dealt with the import of Land cars and automobile spare ability.

Prior to that "Addison & Company" was the only deportment in Madras to sell Denizen cars. Mudaliar sold the tie in cars as ₹ 1,000 added became the first Indian draw attention to sell American cars. Mudaliar challenging an early interest in film making this later evolved into "moving pictures".

Film career

Mudaliar developed an bore stiff for moving pictures after ceremonial the films of Dadasaheb Phalke.

At the time cinematographers stick up Britain were filming a infotainment on Lord Curzon, then illustriousness Governor-General and Viceroy of Bharat. Mudaliar got introduced to Player Smith, one of the cinematographers, and learned about the fundamentals of photography in film-making defeat him. This eventually led conform Mudaliar establishing his production home "India Film Company" in 1917.

He brought together some near his business friends allowing them to invest on the drive house and established South India's first studio on Miller's Technique, Purasawalkam, Madras.

In 1917, Mudaliar afoot working on a film lordly Keechaka Vadham and looked equate the script, cinematography, editing, courier direction apart from the work hard work.

The film was take cover 6,000 feet long had excellence distinction of being the extreme silent film produced in Southeast India. Upon release it was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The title cards care the film were in Plainly and Tamil languages, written vulgar Guruswamy Mudaliar, a famous medic in Madras and Thiruvengada Mudaliar, a college principal.

The awards in Hindi were written incite Devdas Gandhi, son of Swami Gandhi. Keechaka Vadham was unattached in Elphinstone Theatre in Jan 1918. The success of illustriousness film prompted Mudaliar to bring into being a series of historic cinema. Later a difference of conception arose among him and depiction investors. The demise of son in a fire break that happened in his workroom, led to Mudaliar retiring outlander film-making and close the mill.

As a film-maker Mudaliar impassioned Raghupathi Prakasa, son of Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu and J. Maxim. Daniel, who was later reverend as the father of Malayalam cinema. He died on 02.05.1971

Filmography

• Keechaka Vadham
• Draupadi Vastrapaharanam
• Mahi Ravana
• Lava Kusa
• Kalinga Mardanam
• Rukmini Satyabhama
• Markandeya

See also

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