[Contd. from A Short History of Cinema in Pakistan]
By 1925, cinema was attracting more and more patrons and enthusiasts in Lahore. Interest in this new medium had risen and swept like a fever across societies with centuries old multiple socio- cultural patterns.
Justice Moti Sagar, an eminent personality of the city provided financial support to a young lawyer to set up a film company by the name of The Great Eastern Film Corporation. This young enterprising man, Himansu Rai, had recently returned from London by way of Berlin where he had made acquaintance with a cinematographer Franz Osten. Inspired by passion plays of Christ, Himansu Rai directed an adaptation of Light of Asia, a biography of Gautma Buddha in verse. The film was known as Prem Sanyas locally and went on to be a huge success, even finding a release as far as the United States, a rare feat in 1925. Prem Sanyas was shot in Lahore and marked the...
By 1925, cinema was attracting more and more patrons and enthusiasts in Lahore. Interest in this new medium had risen and swept like a fever across societies with centuries old multiple socio- cultural patterns.
Justice Moti Sagar, an eminent personality of the city provided financial support to a young lawyer to set up a film company by the name of The Great Eastern Film Corporation. This young enterprising man, Himansu Rai, had recently returned from London by way of Berlin where he had made acquaintance with a cinematographer Franz Osten. Inspired by passion plays of Christ, Himansu Rai directed an adaptation of Light of Asia, a biography of Gautma Buddha in verse. The film was known as Prem Sanyas locally and went on to be a huge success, even finding a release as far as the United States, a rare feat in 1925. Prem Sanyas was shot in Lahore and marked the...
- 12/8/2011
- by Zia Ahmad
- DearCinema.com
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