Produced by: | East India Film Company, Calcutta |
Language: | Hindi |
Color: | Black and white |
Type: | Sound |
Technical details: | Nitrate |
Cast: | Durga Khote, Prithviraj Kapoor, Gobindrao Tembe, K.C.Dey, Gul Hamid, Dhiraj, Hiralal, Mukhtar Begum, Indubala, Trilok Kapoor, Radhabai, Noorjehan, Kardar, Mazhar Khan |
Director: | Debaki Kumar Bose |
A mythological film with a stellar cast featuring Prithviraj Kapoor as Ram and Durga Khote as Seeta along with some of the most high-profile actors of the time, the film broke new ground by becoming the first Indian film to gain international exposure: it was screened at the 1934 Venice Film Festival where Debaki Bose won an award, the first Indian filmmaker to do so on an international platform.