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In india there are so many sources of enter - tainment like movies,
music, theatre, television, dance etc. India's classical arts like Carnatic music, dance, theatre and drama
have traditions and history going back to several centuries. The musical forms prevalent today including
Carnatic and Hindustani music have their roots in "Sama Veda" one of the four Vedas which are the eternal
and timeless scriptures from which the religious and social ethos of the sub-continent evolved.
Music: Music can be simply magical. It can make you dance, sing, smile or cry.
It calms and comforts many. One of the great uses of music can be found in the form of music therapy.
This is an established health care profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive,
and social needs of individuals of all ages.In India, music has been categorized by the scriptures into
two major streams known as the margi and the desi, roughly translated as classical and folk.
Dance: India is a land where dance first thrived over 2,000 years ago.Dance is a physical and visual art form
which has an immediate and massive impact on the on-looker.India offers a number of classical dance forms,
each of which can be traced to a different part of the country. Each form represents the culture and ethos
of a particular region or a group of people. The most popular classical styles seen on the Indian stage are
Bharatanatyam of Tamil Nadu, Kathakali of Kerala, Odissi of Orissa, Kathak of Uttar Pradesh, Manipuri of Manipur,
and Mohiniattam of Kerala.Folk dances vary geographically. Some of them are the Chauu dance of Bihar, Garba of Gujarat,
Bhangra of Punjab and Banjara of Andhra Pradesh.
Cinema: India has one of the oldest film industries in the world.Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870 - 1944) affectionately
called Dadasaheb Phalke is considered as the 'father of Indian Cinema'. In Indian cinema, the studio system was
beginning to emerge in the early 1930s.In the early thirties, the silent Indian cinema began to talk, sing and dance.
Alam Ara produced by Ardeshir Irani (Imperial Film Company), released on March 14, 1931 was the first Indian cinema with a sound track.
Its most successful initial product was the film Devdas (1935), whose director,
P.C. Barua, also appeared in the lead; the Hindi re-make of the original Bengali film, also directed by Barua, was to
establish the legendary career of Kundanlal Saigal.The next significant phase of Hindi cinema is associated with such
figures as Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, and Guru Dutt. The son of Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor created some of the most
popular and memorable films in Hindi cinema.
Television: Television broadcasting began in 1959.It was a modest beginning--there was one little studio,
from which an hour of programmes was transmitted twice a week. There were farm programmes for rural audiences,
folk dancing and music, programmes of practical interest to women, the occasional short play telecast live.
It was all very basic and simple and so it remained for several years. Gradually the hours of transmission
were increased, but technical improvements were very slow in coming. The problem was that television was
treated by the government as an extension of radio, which had been well established for decades.
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