What type of media does Jeevitham Oru Raagam and Cinema of India have in common?
Cinema of India The cinema of India also known by its sobriquet Indywood consists of films produced across India. Cinema has immense popularity in the country. As many as 1,600 films in various languages of India are produced every year. Indian films have also wide following throughout the rest of South Asia and it is even available in mainstream cinemas in parts of the Greater Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Africa and elsewhere. Dadasaheb Phalke is known as the "father of Indian cinema". The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, for lifetime contribution to cinema, was instituted in his honour, by the Government of India in 1969, and is the most prestigious and coveted award in Indian cinema.
R. Nataraja Mudaliar Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar (1885–1972), popularly known as the father of Tamil cinema, was a pioneer in the production of silent films. Starting his career as an automobile spare parts merchant, he started the "Indian Film Company Limited" in Madras. In 1917, Mudaliar made "Keechaka Vadham", South India's first silent film. Upon critical success of the film, he went on to produce films like "Draupadhi Vastrapaharanam" (1918), "Lava Kusa" (1919), "Rukmini Satyabhama" and "Mayil Ravana". After the death of his son in a fire accident in 1923, Mudaliar retired from films.