The state government announced a policy of incentives in 2016.Ĭinema show times written in typical Gujarati style Įven before the advent of talkies there were several silent films closely related to the Gujarati people and their culture, and many directors, producers and actors who were Gujarati and Parsi. The industry has been partially revived in the 2010s due first to rural demand, and later to an influx of new technology and urban subjects in films. The Gujarat state government announced a tax exemption again in 2005 which lasted until 2017. In the 1970s, the Government of Gujarat announced a tax exemption and subsidies which resulted in an increase in the number of films, but the quality declined.Īfter flourishing through the 1960s–1980s, the industry saw a decline through 2000 when the number of new films dropped below twenty. In the 1950s–1960s, the trend continued with the addition of films on literary works. There was a spurt in film production in the 1940s focused on saint, sati or dacoit stories as well as mythology and folktales. Until the independence of India in 1947, only twelve Gujarati films were produced.

The language-associated industry dates back to 1932, when the first Gujarati talkie, Narsinh Mehta, was released. It is one of the major regional and vernacular film industries of the cinema of India, having produced more than one thousand films since its inception.ĭuring the silent film era, many individuals in the industry were Gujaratis. Gujarati cinema, also known as Gollywood or Dhollywood, is the Gujarati language film industry. Narsinh Mehta (1932) was the first full-length Gujarati talkie.

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