When was first cinema started in India?

Answer 1

Cinema became a sensation across Europe and by July 1896 the Lumière films had been in show in Bombay.

The first short films in India were directed by Hiralal Sen, starting with The Flower of Persia (1898).The first full-length motion picture in India was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, a scholar on India's languages and culture, who brought together elements from Sanskrit epics to produce his Raja Harishchandra (1913), a silent film in Marathi.The female roles in the film were played by male actors.The first Indian chain of cinema theaters was owned by the Calcuttaentrepreneur Jamshedji Framji Madan, who oversaw production of 10 films annually and distributed them throughout the Indian subcontinent.