Harishchandra

India's first ever feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made in the Marathi language.

Local legend has it that Dadasaheb Phalke - who made Raja Harishchandra, India's first full-length feature film - used to screen black and white films on a white cloth tied between two trees on a plot of land near this theatre.

A long-time city resident, who lives close to the Harishchandra and Manikarnika ghats - the two main cremation areas on the banks of Ganges river - says funeral pyres have been burning non-stop for the past month.

India's first full-length feature film, "Raja Harishchandra," was released in 1913.

India's first full-length feature film, "Raja Harishchandra," was released in 1913.