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... that while the heroine of India's first full length film was a man, Mohini Bhasmasur (lead actress Kamlabai Gokhale pictured) was the first Indian film to feature actresses?
...that director Asit Sen received his first and only Filmfare Award for Best Director for his 1970 film Safar, which was not nominated for the Best Film award?
... that some historians believe that presumed reels of India's first feature film Raja Harishchandra (1913) are actually of its remake Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra (1917)?

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