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Raja Harishchandra

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 Raja Harishchandra Raja Harishchandra  (  King Harishchandra ) is a 1913 Indian  silent film  directed and produced by  Dadasaheb Phalke . It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film.  Raja Harishchandra  features  Dattatraya Damodar Dabke ,  Anna Salunke , Bhalchandra Phalke, and Gajanan Vasudev Sane and is based on the legend of  Harishchandra , with Dabke portraying the title character. The film, being silent, had English,  Marathi , and  Hindi -language  intertitles . Story                                                          In his  Marathi  language  magazine  Suvarnamala , Phalke had published a story  Surabaichi Kahani  ( A Tale of Sura    ). The story, which depicted the ill effects of alcoholism, was...