Dr. Rentala Jayadeva is a Nandi Award-winning film journalist, research scholar and writer with over 35 years of experience covering Telugu cinema. In this session, on the occasion of launch of his book, 'Mana Cinema... First Reel', the writer takes us on a history tour, straight to the origins of Telugu talkie films and discusses numerous buried, rarely addressed facets of film history.
Chapters:
00:00 - ADs
00:11 - Intro
01:18 - Why Film History is important?
07:34 - Tracing Kalidas’ backstory
19:23 - Why Telugu people didn’t own Kalidasa
25:00 - The making of Kalidasa
32:46 - Proofs that Kalidas is a Telugu film
38:43 - Earliest Telugu films in foreign countries
41:52 - Bhaktha Prahlada real release date
46:14 - 25 years of research
54:05 - Filmmaking experiments in early days
57:44 - India’s first box office blockbuster
01:00:19 - Beyond Telugu Cinema
01:01:51 - Correcting a mistake in Kannada film history
01:06:42 - Why Film Studies are important?
01:08:14 - Film for cultural documentation
01:10:48 - Need for Film Preservation
01:16:02 - Response for book
01:19:20 - Thanking Rentala gaaru