Chamanlal Doongaji was an Indian businessman,
film producer and
distributor
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Design
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known for producing the first-ever
talking film
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...
in
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
, ''
Sati Sulochana
''Sati Sulochana'' () is a 1934 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Y. V. Rao. The film was released on 3 March 1934 and is the first talkie film in Kannada language. ''.
He founded a film distribution company named ''South India Movietone'' in 1932.
He was from a
Marwari
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* anything of, from, or related to the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India, largely in the Thar Desert
** Marwari people, an Indian ethnic group originating in the Marwar region
** Marwari language, the language of the Marwari ...
family and was based in
Bengaluru
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.
References
Indian film producers
Kannada film producers
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