Satya Harishchandra (1951 film)

Satya Harischandra or simply Harishchandra is a 1951 Nepali language film based on Raja Satya Harischandra's story[1] which made it possible for the Nepalese movie goers to hear dialogues in Nepali language for the first time.[2]

It was DB Pariyar's initiative that made it possible for Nepali language to be part of big screen for the first time. Since it was more crucial to take Nepali language to cinema at that time, Nepali speakers involved in making it happen were more focused only on the language aspect of it. As a result correct credits and other technical aspects with historical significance were overlooked. Nepalese cinema fraternity which still gets criticized for lack of professional film making,[3]one can imagine how much professionality the early ground breakers could have than pure love for their language and eager wish to hear it in the film. Due to unavailability of materials related to this film there had been lots of guesses and assumption about it. But recently an unreleased poster of the film has unsurfaced confirming things that were guessed earlier. Regardless, Harischandra is the film that took Nepali language to the movie theaters for the first time without a doubt.

Cast
  • Prem
  • Kanta
  • Sheela
  • Sandow

References
  1. Aryal, Timothy (7 February 2020). "The Nepali film industry has lights, camera, action—but no substance". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  2. "History of Cinema in Nepal". Filmbirth: History of Cinema. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  3. https://neostuffs.com/2016/09/19/dear-nepali-film-makers-professional-learn-criticisms-instead-getting-offended/
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