Some have argued that Pundalik was not the first Indian film, because it was a photographic recording of a play, and because the cameraman was a British man named Johnson and the film was processed in London. The first Indian film released in India was Shree Pundalik, a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on at Coronation Cinematograph, Bombay. Bhatavdekar, showing a wrestling match at the Hanging Gardens in Bombay, was the first film to be shot by an Indian and the first Indian documentary film. With Stevenson's encouragement and camera Hiralal Sen, an Indian photographer, made a film of scenes from that show, namely The Flower of Persia (1898). In 1897, a film presentation by Professor Stevenson featured a stage show at Calcutta's Star Theatre. Following the screening of the Lumière and Robert Paul moving pictures in London (1896), commercial cinematography became a worldwide sensation and by mid-1896 both Lumière and Robert Paul films had been shown in Bombay. The history of cinema in India extends back to the beginning of the film era. Major Indian enterprises in the film industry include AVM Productions, Sun Pictures, AGS Entertainment, Geetha Arts, Zee, UTV, Suresh Productions, Eros International, Aascar Films and Yash Raj Films. Millions of Indians overseas watch Indian films, accounting for some 12% of revenues. Films like Bahubali: The Beginning were dubbed in more than three languages, thus starting a Pan-India films movement. Its films have a following throughout Southern Asia and across Europe, North America, Asia, the Greater Middle East, Eastern Africa, China and elsewhere, reaching over 90 countries. By 2020, the combined revenue of regional film industries has surpassed that of the Hindi film industry. Other prominent film industries include Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and Bhojpuri film industry. In 2019, the Hindi film industry represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by the Telugu film industry, the Tamil film industry, the Malayalam film industry, and Kannada film industry. The overall revenue of Indian cinema reached US$2.7 billion in 2019. In 2015, India had a total box office gross of US$2.1 billion, the third largest in the world. As of 2018, India ranked first in terms of annual film output. Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar- Cuttack and Guwahati are the major centres of film production in India. Cinema is immensely popular in India: every year, more than 1800 films are produced collectively in the various languages of India. The cinema of India consists of films produced in India.

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