Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari

This guide to Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari in Mumbai starts with Dhundiraj Govind Phalke watching a film about Jesus Christ in a Bombay cinema in 1911, and walking out convinced Indian gods deserved their own screen stories. It follows him to London in 1912 to learn filmmaking from Cecil Hepworth, then back to Bombay, where no woman would agree to appear on camera, so men played every female role in his debut production. Phalke had no film training, no backers, and a family to feed.