This child group of South Asian Cinema collects that broader group's members whose own description names the Bengali language, spanning both the popular Kolkata-centered commercial industry and the internationally recognized Bengali art-cinema tradition of directors such as Satyajit Ray. It is kept apart from this parent group's other three children purely by language/industry, the axis this atlas's data most reliably supports for Indian cinema.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Cinema of West Bengal, lead sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Cinema of West Bengal, lead section
The history of Bengali cinema began in the early 20th century with the release of Billwamangal (also known as Bhagwat Gita) in 1919, which is widely regarded as the world's first Bengali film
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