Jamai Shashthi

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Jamai Shashthi
Directed byAmar Choudhury
Produced byMadan Theatres Ltd
Written byAmar Choudhury
Starring
Music byKshirodegopal Mukherjee
CinematographyT. Marconi
Release date
25 April 1931
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Jamai Shashthi (Bengali: জামাই ষষ্ঠী English: Son-in-law day) is a 1931 Bengali short film directed by Amar Choudhury and produced by Madan Theatre Limited. It is a milestone of Bengali cinema as it was the first Bengali short film as a talkie.[1] It was released at Crown Cinema Hall in Calcutta on 11 April 1931, in the same year as Alam Ara, the first Indian talkie.

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  1. Gokulsing, K.; Wimal Dissanayake (2004). Indian popular cinema: a narrative of cultural change. Trentham Books. p. 24. ISBN 1-85856-329-1.

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