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A Historical Journey through Indian Movies

Research and Data: B Vijayakumar

We present to you a statistical delight laced in trivia and never analyzed data across all of the movies made in India for 50 years starting from 1931.

Starting on May 18th, 1912, with the movie Pundalik, Indian movies have come a long way over the last century.

While our commitment to Malayalam movies and music remains our primary focus, understanding how the industry evolved, how our industry was influenced and where we lie in the grand scheme of things will give us a perspective like never before.

Click on the year to read more about the uniqueness of each of the years. We welcome you to click also on the language to read about it elsewhere on the internet.

Did you know that movies were made in India were over 35 languages during this phase ? That alone makes our industry the one with a stunning difference as unique as our culture and people.

As always we welcome your comments.

	Hindi	Tamil	Telugu	Bengali	Marathi	Gujarati	Punjabi	Kannada	Malayalam	Oriya	Assamese
1931	23	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932	61	4	3	5	8	2	0	0	0	0	0
1933	75	7	5	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934	121	14	3	10	11	1	0	2	0	0	0
1935	154	38	7	19	9	1	1	1	0	0	1
1936	135	38	12	20	6	3	1	0	0	1	0
1937	102	37	10	16	11	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938	88	39	10	19	14	0	1	0	1	0	0
1939	80	35	12	16	12	1	7	0	0	0	1
1940	85	36	14	16	10	1	7	0	1	0	0
1941	73	32	15	19	13	0	8	2	1	0	1
1942	98	23	12	18	13	0	5	0	0	0	0
1943	106	13	6	21	7	0	1	4	0	0	0
1944	85	14	6	14	5	0	2	0	0	0	0
1945	73	11	5	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
1946	155	16	9	15	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
1947	183	29	6	33	6	11	0	5	0	0	2
1948	147	32	2	37	7	27	0	1	0	1	1
1949	159	21	7	62	15	17	1	6	1	0	2
1950	114	19	18	42	19	13	5	1	6	2	0
1951	99	26	21	39	16	6	4	2	6	1	0
1952	102	32	25	43	17	2	0	1	11	0	0
1953	102	32	25	43	17	2	0	1	11	0	0
1954	188	38	28	48	18	0	3	11	9	1	1
1955	125	46	24	52	13	3	0	15	7	0	2
1956	122	51	27	54	13	3	0	14	5	2	3
1957	115	45	36	55	14	0	2	14	7	1	3
1958	114	61	36	45	16	1	1	11	4	0	2
1959	115	78	47	38	9	0	1	5	3	2	5
1960	118	64	54	36	15	2	4	12	6	5	0
1961	104	49	55	35	15	7	5	12	11	1	2
1962	90	60	48	42	22	5	6	16	15	7	1
1963	88	55	46	39	15	6	4	22	13	1	3
1964	101	44	41	38	16	2	8	18	19	3	1
1965	98	56	50	29	14	5	5	21	31	3	0
1966	100	61	41	30	12	2	4	21	32	2	2
1967	82	63	62	25	19	3	4	24	40	1	2
1968	72	68	77	29	17	3	2	36	36	3	1
1969	103	72	70	29	16	6	4	45	32	2	2
1970	102	75	72	36	19	5	2	37	43	0	3
1971	115	74	85	30	23	2	2	33	53	1	5
1972	131	66	63	25	12	4	3	20	47	1	6
1973	136	66	74	35	14	5	5	32	60	2	9
1974	132	79	69	35	11	6	4	30	54	2	3
1975	119	70	88	35	17	12	5	38	77	3	6
1976	106	81	93	32	10	29	10	45	84	6	5
1977	134	66	99	29	19	30	12	49	91	11	7
1978	116	105	94	36	15	32	7	54	125	15	6
1979	113	139	131	37	19	38	15	59	112	10	10
1980	143	144	152	37	28	34	6	68	91	15	7
1981	148	138	134	42	27	34	8	65	113	10	5