Bollywood Home » Popular Movie Reviews » Historical Movies India has a rich history with a thousand battles and tales of glory right from the time of the ancient civilizations to the age of the Indian struggle for freedom. The people are always seen to be drawn by the historical chronicles with which they tend to merge their own imaginations. Bollywood Historical Movies were first made taking the advantage of this particular craze, long back during the early days of cinema. Setting aside the dry facts of history, the gifted filmmakers tried to take up the fictions from within in weaving the storylines for their films. Soon after the first attempts were an instant success, the Bollywood Historical Movies became quite a popular trend that were bound to be loved by most of the movie viewers in the country.

The historical movies of Bollywood started setting their trends with Raja Harishchandra, made in the nascent days of Indian cinema, before the coming of the talkies. The movie was a great success in those days with the fascinating colors of direction, cinematography and sequence setting that impressed a lot of audiences as never before. Then a quick succession of movies followed that were all made in historical settings. Most of them were not successful due to a lot of discrepancies in depicting the historical times, facts and happenings. This was indeed a challenge for the committed movie makers of Bollywood. They started to concentrate on the cardinal aspects when making the best possible historical movies and produced some of the popular historical movies of Bollywood that are talked about even today.

The best Bollywood Historical Movies always depicted a parity between facts and fiction. The eminent producers and directors like the legendary Dadasaheb Phalke, Sohrab Modi, L V. Prasad, Prithwiraj Kapoor and Mehboob Khan understood the perfect balance between fact and fiction to uphold the artistry in presenting the perfect blend for mass entertainment. Probably the greatest challenge for making the historical movies of Bollywood was to avoid the risks of historical controversy in depicting the story. This requires intense research and analysis by the filmmaker in making the storyline of the movie. Many Bollywood Historical Movies faced such controversies though they were perfect masterpieces as far as artistry was considered.

The Bollywood Historical Movies launched the acting careers of a large number of actors who soon became celebrities establishing their images. While Pradeep Kumar topped the list as the ever young prince, appearing in a number of movies showing the Mughal Era, Dilip Kumar was no less cheered by the audience as Prince Salim, in Mughal-E-Azam. Bharat Bhushan became a legendary figure after his role in Baiju Bawra and Premnath became the star of the millions after his fascinating performance in Chengiz Khan. With the recent success of Ashoka, Umrao Jaan, Bhagat Sing, Mangal Pandey and Jodha Akbar the Bollywood Historical Movies will keep on entertaining the mass for years to come.

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