Q26
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeArt, Culture, Literature & Cinema
Who among the following made first Film Theatre of India?
- a.Lumiere Brothers
- b.Mani Sethna
- c.Dada Saheb Phalke
- d.Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
No option is correct as printed — this question is disputed. WBPSC awarded the mark to all candidates: the 'first film theatre of India' is not clearly any listed person's work (usually credited to J. F. Madan, not an option), so the question has no clear correct option.
The question has no single settled answer among the options. The Lumière Brothers only held the first film show in India (Watson's Hotel, Bombay, 1896) and did not build a theatre, Dadasaheb Phalke made the first Indian feature film, and Dhirendra Nath Ganguly was an early Bengali filmmaker; the first permanent cinema hall is usually credited to J. F. Madan's Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta (1907). The Commission therefore awarded the mark to all candidates.