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  1. Mohini Bhasmasur is a 1913 Indian mythological film directed by Dadasaheb Phalke and starring Kamlabai Gokhale and Durgabai Kamat. It is India's and Phalke's second full-length feature film. Mohini Bhasmasur is the first Indian film to have a female actor.

  2. Aug 18, 2019 · In an issue of the Cinema Vision India magazine, Mohan came across a history-making figure – Kamlabai Gokhale, who along with her mother, Durgabai Kamat, had starred in DG Phalke’s Mohini ...

  3. Feb 4, 2022 · Kamlabai Gokhale broke the glass ceiling in Indian cinema when she became the first woman to be cast in a film, in 1913. And the filmmaker was none other than Dadasaheb Phalke, the founder of Indian cinema.

  4. Her first stage appearance was at the age of four. Around 1912-1913, Dadasaheb Phalke, the pioneering film-maker of India, was casting for his film Mohini Bhasmasur and he chose Kamlabai for the lead. [3] Her mother played the role of Parvati.

  5. Jun 27, 2014 · Kamlabai Gokhale played the lead role of Maya in the movie while her mother played the parallel lead of goddess Parvathi. Kamlabai was only 14 years old then and thus credited both as the first heroine and first female child actress on Indian silver screen.

  6. Jan 4, 1998 · In 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke cast Kamlabai in Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), the first Indian film to star a woman and made shortly after the pioneering Raja Harishchandra. Years passed, courage didn't. Aged but agile, her last battles were with the newspaper, magnifying glass in hand.

  7. Mar 4, 2020 · Because of that incident, Kamlabai got the role of Mohini and her mother played Parvati in Phalke’s silent film “Mohini Bhasmasur”. This film was released on 1 January 1914 at Bombay’s Coronation Cinema in Girgaum.