

With Stevenson's encouragement and camera Hiralal Sen, an Indian photographer, made a film of scenes from that show, namely The Flower of Persia (1898). In 1897, a film presentation by Professor Stevenson featured a stage show at Calcutta's Star Theatre. Following the screening of the Lumière and Robert Paul moving pictures in London (1896), commercial cinematography became a worldwide sensation and by mid-1896 both Lumière and Robert Paul films had been shown in Bombay. The history of cinema in India extends back to the beginning of the film era. Major Indian enterprises in the film industry include AVM Productions, Sun Pictures, AGS Entertainment, Geetha Arts, Zee, Mythri Movie Makers, UTV, Suresh Productions, Eros International, Aascar Films and Yash Raj Films. Millions of Indians overseas watch Indian films, accounting for some 12% of revenues. Films like Bahubali: The Beginning were dubbed in more than three languages, thus starting a Pan-India films movement. Its films have a following throughout Southern Asia and across Europe, North America, Asia, the Greater Middle East, Eastern Africa, China and elsewhere, reaching over 90 countries. By 2020, the combined revenue of all regional film industries has surpassed that of the Hindi film industry. Kannada film industry, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, and Bhojpuri film industry. Other prominent film industries include Malayalam film industry, In 2019, the Hindi film industry (Bollywood) represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by the Tamil film industry and the Telugu film industry, which both together represent 26%. The overall revenue of Indian cinema reached US$2.7 billion in 2019. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion, the third largest in the world. As of 2018, India ranked first in terms of annual film output. Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar- Cuttack and Guwahati are the major centres of film production in India. Cinema is immensely popular in India: every year, more than 1800 films are produced collectively in the various languages of India. Cinema of India consists of films produced in India.
