“While the film Life of Christ was rolling past before my eyes I was mentally visualizing the gods, Shri Krishna, Shri Ramachandra their Gokul and Ayodhya.. I was gripped by a strange spell. I bought another ticket and saw the film again. This time I felt my imagination taking shape in the screen. Could this really happen? Could we the sons of India, ever be able to see Indian images on the screen. The whole night passed in this mental agony.”

—  Dadasaheb Phalke

After watching the film The Life of Christ in 1910 quoted in *[Ganti, Tejaswini, Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, http://books.google.com/books?id=2GAdCp1VAf0C&pg=PA8, 5 March 2013, Routledge, 978-1-136-84929-9, 92]
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