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  1. Marathi Cinema, also known as Marathi film industry, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Marathi language widely spoken in the state of Maharashtra. It is based in Mumbai.

  2. This is the list of films produced in the Marathi language in India. The Marathi film industry is the oldest of all Indian film industries. Raja Harishchandra , the first silent film of India was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke with the help of all Marathi-crew.

  3. India's first full-length feature film Raja Harishchandra, which was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, was a Marathi film. Dadasaheb Phalke is known as the first pioneer and founder of Indian cinema. Sant Tukaram was the first Indian work to win the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival in 1937.

    • Pinjra (1972) The ultimate musical extravaganza, the ultimate tamasha drama, the ultimate Marathi film. Like V. Shantaram’s entire body of work, his final film ‘Pinjra’ pushes the envelope by showing a liaison between a stoic schoolteacher and a tamashewali which end up taking up both their lives.
    • Shwaas (2004) ‘Shwaas’ is the story of a 6-year old kid named Parshya who suffers from a rare eye cancer, which necessitates the removal of his eyes to save his eyesight, and how his grandfather copes with this.
    • Manoos (1939) V. Shantaram has been hailed as one of the most prominent visionaries to have graced Indian cinema. His body of work in Hindi as well as Marathi is exemplary.
    • Natsamrat (2016) Marathi theatre enjoys an illustrious reputation across the nation, perhaps even more than Marathi cinema. ‘ Natasamrat’, with its virtuoso dramatic acting and sesquipedalian language seems more like an elaborate, sprawling play about a thespian being shown on screen than a film.
  4. This is the list of films produced in the Marathi language in India. The Marathi film industry is the oldest of all Indian film industries. Raja Harishchandra, the first silent film of India was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke with the help of all Marathi-crew. Ayodhyecha Raja was the first talkie Marathi film that released in 1932. [1]

  5. Raja Harishchandra, directed by Dadasaheb Phalke and released in 1913, was the first Marathi-language film ever made, and was also India's first full-length feature film. The claim is disputed and some claim that Dadasaheb Torne 's Shree Pundalik (1912) was the first film made in Maharashtra.

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  7. From Bharatpedia, an open encyclopedia. This is the list of films produced in the Marathi language in India. The Marathi film industry is the oldest of all Indian film industries. Raja Harishchandra, the first silent film of India was directed by Dadasaheb Phalke with the help of all Marathi-crew.