India’s first adults-only film had 16 year-old star, was slammed for ‘immoral’, bold plot, still ran houseful for weeks
The first adults-only film in India was released in 1950 and had a 16-year-old in the lead The Indian Cinematograph Act (1918) was the piece of legislation that governed the content of films in India after the World War I. As talkies emerged in the 1930s and cinema diversified with more genres and realism, the…