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Anna Hari Salunke, also known as A. Salunke and Annasaheb Saluke, was an Indian actor who performed female roles in very early Indian cinema and also a cinematographer. He is the first person to perform as a heroine in Indian cinema when he played the role of Queen Taramati in Dada Saheb Phalke's first full-length film, Raja Harishchandra (1913).
Jun 27, 2014 · Anna Salunke was a male actor who regularly performed female roles in the silent era of Indian cinema. He is credited to play the first ever heroine role onscreen in Indian cinema. When first Indian feature film was made by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913, he was forced to cast male actors for female roles as well.
Anna Salunke is known for Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra (1917), Buddha Dev (1923) and Satyanarayan (1922).
Jan 19, 2024 · Explore the fascinating journey of Anna Hari Salunke, also known as A. Salunke and Annasaheb Saluke, an iconic figure in early Indian cinema. From being the first person to portray a heroine in...
Mar 24, 2019 · Finally, a young male cook named Anna Salunke played the female lead in India’s first feature-length film. Kamalabai Gokhale | Wikimedia Commons.
Anna Hari Salunke was the first female actor of Indian cinema, or better to say the first man to play a woman in early Indian cinema. Salunke played the role of Rani Taramati in Dada Saheb Phalke’s first feature-length film Raja Harishchandra (1913).
Aug 27, 2014 · Madhuja Mukherjee revisits the female characters played by the young man Anna Salunke and his contribution to the production, of what is now framed and studied as ‘Early Indian Cinema’. Anna Salunke, birth-death unknown, was one of the first female ‘stars’ of Indian cinema.
