Hyderabad film journey began around 125 years ago, paralleling Bombay and Madras, while producing stars and pioneers

By H Ramesh Babu

The film industry in Hyderabad took root around 125 years ago and made its mark during the silent film era. The city of Hyderabad became a venue for the screening of silent films as early as 1896, giving it a cinematic history parallel to that of Bombay and Madras during the same period.

If the Telugu pioneer Raghupathi Venkaiah is said to have shown silent films in Madras in 1910, then two years earlier, in 1908, a travelling film exhibitor named Babu PS screened silent films through his Bioscope Film Company in Khammam and Nizamabad. The filming of the Musi floods might have taken place in the same year, 1908. Two years later, in 1910, Colonel Willi

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