By Sharayu Phalke Summanwar

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His mother told him that he was born with wide open eyes, golden brown and filled with curiosity and wonder, and that is why they called him Dhundiraj, the discoverer! The moniker Dadasaheb came much later.” Thus begins The Silent Film: Dadasaheb Phalke 1870-1944, the first book in English (one biography was penned by Bapu Vatave in Marathi and later translated into Engl-ish; another was by Bham-bre) to capture the inside story of the Father of Indi-an Cinema, of his personal and family life, his roller coaster career, his heartbreaks and exultations, his plenty and penury, of Dadasaheb Phalke — forgotten as he lay dying.