About this stamp
On the Sheet
The sixth of the six miniature sheets, ₹40, with 8 stamps: Shammi Kapoor, Shankar–Jaikishan, Smita Patil, Suraiya, Tarachand Barjatya, T. R. Sundaram, Utpal Dutt and Vishnuvardhan.
100 Years of Indian Cinema
India Post issued fifty ₹5 stamps in six miniature sheets on 3 May 2013, a hundred years to the day after the theatrical release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, often considered the first full-length Indian feature film, at the Coronation Cinematograph in Girgaon, Bombay. The stamps honour actors, directors, producers, composers, lyricists and singers who shaped a century of Indian cinema across its languages. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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