When VFX conquered Bollywood
In the year 1919, Dada Saheb Phalke surprised audiences worldwide with his silent blockbuster Kaliamardhan, packed with visual effects. The technology was quite basic compared to that which was being experimented with in Hollywood at the time.
But since then, Bollywood seems to have pulled back from the VFX race. Following the tech boom of the 1970s in the west, the advent of computer graphics in its cinema dramatically accelerated the hand-on experience their animators got with VFX technology.
VFX in India