Thursday, April 18, 2024

Salman Khan House Firing Case Update; Lawrence Bishnoi Mumbai Police | Accused didn't want to kill Salman but to scare him: Salman's statement will also be recorded, took betel nut of 4 lakhs: Police

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Mumbai Crime Branch is interrogating the accused in the firing case outside Salman Khan’s house. Crime branch officials have informed that both the accused fired outside Salman’s house not with the intention of killing him, but to scare the actor.

In this case, the Crime Branch has so far recorded the statements of the families of both the accused from Bihar. Apart from this, the crime branch has so far summoned and interrogated around 7 people from Haryana and other states.

After this incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde reached Salman's house to meet him and his father Salim Khan

After this incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde reached Salman’s house to meet him and his father Salim Khan

Salman expressed displeasure over security
Meanwhile, sources have also informed that the Mumbai Crime Branch team will also record Salman Khan’s statement in this case.

Earlier, Salman had expressed his displeasure and concern with the Mumbai police officials regarding the safety of his family. He also questioned the police about how this incident happened despite such heavy security.

Both the accused, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, have been sent to 10-day police remand by the Fort Court in Mumbai.

Both the accused, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, have been sent to 10-day police remand by the Fort Court in Mumbai.

Both the accused are residents of Bihar
The main accused in the case have been identified as Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, who are residents of Bihar. They searched Salman’s house and farm house in Panvel and fired five rounds. The pistol fired by the accused was not recovered.

According to police sources, shooter Sagar Pal was given the gun hours before he opened fire outside the house of actor Salman Khan, which was supplied to the accused from Bandra area on the night of April 13. However, the crime branch is still investigating who was the person who supplied the gun. Police are trying to trace the person who gave the money to both Sagar Pal and Vicky Gupta.

According to police sources, both the accused took betel nut worth Rs.4 lakh. Initially Rs 1 lakh was given, the remaining Rs 3 lakh was decided to be given after the completion of the work. The role of a person detained from Haryana in the firing at Salman Khan’s house is being investigated.

It may be mentioned here that firing was done outside Salman Khan’s house on April 14 Sunday morning. However, the shooters who fired are now in police custody. While carrying out the incident, both shooters hid their faces so that they could not be identified on CCTV. Both had removed their helmets and wearing caps, causing their faces to be captured on nearby CCTV. However, he left his motorcycle near Mount Mary Church and walked away. Mumbai Police got a lot of help from Aadhaar card in arresting both the accused.

He was arrested from Bhuj in Gujarat
The Fort Court of Mumbai has sent both the accused on 10-day police remand. Both the accused were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch from Bhuj in Gujarat late on Monday night. He was brought to Mumbai on Tuesday afternoon.

In this matter, the police have registered a case against Anmol, brother of gangster Lawrence. He took responsibility for the incident in a Facebook post. Lawrence gang has threatened Salman several times before.

In the CCTV footage, both the accused were seen outside Salman's house

In the CCTV footage, both the accused were seen outside Salman’s house

These two accused opened fire in front of Salman’s Galaxy apartment in Bandra at 5 am on April 14. Both came on bikes and fired 5 rounds. Salman was at his home at the time of the firing. After the incident, security was increased outside Salman’s house.

Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Celebrities List: Including Alia, Sakshi Malik and Indian-origin Banga, Nadella, Dev Patel

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Time magazine on Wednesday released its list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2024. Among them are actress Alia Bhatt, wrestler Sakshi Malik, World Bank Chairman Ajay Banga, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and actor-director Dev Patel.

The list also includes Jigar Shah, director of the US Energy Loan Program Office, Priyanvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University. Apart from this, Indian-origin restaurant owner Asma Khan and Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, have also been named.

World Bank President Ajay Banga was born in Pune, did his MBA from Ahmedabad
Indian-origin Ajay Banga took charge as the President of the World Bank on June 2 last year. He also became the first black person to chair two global financial institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

On May 3, 63-year-old Ajay Banga was elected by the World Bank’s executive directors as its 14th president. His tenure will be 5 years. Banga is the first Indian-American to chair the World Bank. He will replace David Malpass, who decided to resign in February.

Ajay Banga was born on 10 November 1959 in Pune. His father Harbhajan Singh Banga was a Lieutenant General in the Indian Army. He did his schooling from Jalandhar and Shimla, graduation from DU and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. In 2016, the Government of India also honored him with the Padma Shri.

Ajay Banga has been described in Time magazine as having connected millions of people outside the banking system to the digital economy. At the World Bank, Ajay presented a new vision for a poverty-free world and took bold steps to make it a better place. For this he has used multilateral development banks and the private sector as a tool.

Alia Bhatt was born into a filmy family, giving 12 hits in her 12 year career.​​​​​​​
Alia was born on 15 March 1993 in Mumbai. Her father Mahesh Bhatt is a well-known film producer and mother Soni Razdan is a Bollywood actress. Soni is the second wife of Mahesh Bhatt. Pooja Bhatt is Alia’s half sister.

Alia debuted in 2012 with ‘Student of the Year’. Worked in the movie Highway in 2014. After this, Alia did films like 2 States, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Kapoor & Sons, Udta Punjab, Dear Zindagi, Badrinath Ki Dulhania and gradually became a fan favorite of the younger generation.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi 2021 proved to be a game changer for Alia’s career. It was hard to imagine Alia Bhatt looking cute in the role of a dangerous lady don. Alia performed amazingly and reached new heights of success. Alia won the National Award for Best Actress for this film.

Alia made her Hollywood debut in 2023 with ‘Heart of Stone’. The film’s director Tom Harper said about Alia in Time magazine that she is one of the best actresses in the world.

Mother did not want Sakshi Malik to become a wrestler, won an Olympic medal in 2016

Time magazine has named Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik as an influential figure in its list of icons. Sakshi campaigned against Brijbhushan Singh against sexual exploitation in wrestling. This battle of witness has been mentioned in Time magazine. The magazine reported that Sakshi gave up wrestling, but fought bravely against those who harassed women.

Sakshi started learning wrestling at the age of 12. However, her mother did not want her daughter to become a wrestler. Mother said- Girls used to wear short clothes while wrestling. That’s why I didn’t like wrestling. I tried a lot to convince Sakshi that girls who are wrestlers don’t get married. Sakshi’s father Sukhbir Malik is a bus conductor in DTC.

Microsoft Chairman Satya Nadella was born in Hyderabad, his net worth is $2,527 billion.

54-year-old Satya Nadella is the chairman of the world’s leading tech company Microsoft. Satya Nadella, born on 19 August 1967 in Hyderabad, became the CEO of Microsoft in February 2014. He has done engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. Nadella started at Microsoft in 1992 as a Windows NT operating system developer. Satya Nadella’s net worth is $2,527 billion.

In Time magazine, it is said about him that he had a major contribution in making Microsoft the largest company in the world. Nadella can also be credited for Microsoft’s huge investment in Open AI and its partnership with Mistral AI.

Dev Patel found Slum Dog Millionaire at the age of 18, later became a director

In 2008, Dev Patel rose to international fame with Danny Boyle’s film Slum Dog Millionaire. The film has won 8 Oscar awards. Apart from Dev, the film also featured Freida Pinto and Anil Kapoor. Dev received an Oscar nomination for the 2016 film Lion.

In this film, he played the role of an Indian child who was adopted by an Australian family. Apart from this, films like The Last Airbender made Dev popular in India as well as the world.

Dev Patel has made his directorial debut with the film ‘Monkey Man’. The film was released worldwide on 5 April. However, it could not be released in India. His film has been mentioned in Time magazine. In the magazine, Hollywood actor Daniel Kaluuya said about Dev that his acting level in Monkey Man is very high.

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Sam Altman Named ‘CEO of the Year 2023’, CEO of OpenAI Receives Time Magazine Award for His Contribution to the Tech Industry

Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Open-AI, has been named ‘CEO of the Year 2023’ by Time Magazine. This award is given to Sam Altman for his contribution to the tech industry. Apart from Sam, Time magazine has named Taylor Swift as ‘Person of the Year’ and Lionel Messi as ‘Athlete of the Year’.

AP Dhillon was trolled for breaking his guitar AP Dhillon trolled for smashing guitar: 'I'm not in control' post sparks controversy, shows international singers smashing guitars

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Singer AP Dhillon has been in the news for some time now. Recently he was seen smashing a guitar on stage at a concert, however, music lovers did not like his manner and started trolling him. After the ongoing controversy, AP Dhillon has now responded to the trolls by posting a post. He has also shared videos of some international singers smashing guitars.

AP Dhillon posted some pictures from the concert, in which he is seen smashing the guitar. With this he has written that, the media is in control, but I am not in control. However, now he is also being trolled on this post.

What is the whole matter?
AP Dhillon recently went to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. On stage he performed the song Brown Monday as a tribute to late singer Sidhu Moozwala. After the performance he aggressively smashed his guitar. After the video surfaced, it is being trolled continuously. Some music lovers say that breaking the guitar has insulted the music.

31-year-old singer AP Dhillon is a household name in the Punjabi music industry. In the year 2020, AP Dhillo gained recognition across the country with the song Brown Munde. Singer Sidhu Moozwala was also seen in this song.

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Gujarat Board Result 2024 Date: Big Update on Class 10th and 12th Result, Know Now

Gujarat Board Result 2024 Date: The results of class 10 and 12 will be announced by the Gujarat board soon. The information received from the board and the updates from the sources have come that now the paper verification work has been completed and now the preparations have been started to announce the results. The Gujarat Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education may declare the result in April. The result is declared by the end of April.

Apart from this, the board has not yet released the exact information on this matter, but soon the detailed information will be given by the board. On the other hand, talking about last year, last year the result of the board was announced in the first week of May, so this year also the result was announced in May. (Gujarat Board Result 2024 Date) is expected to happen. In the graph, we will tell you about the important things related to the result, which you should read carefully.

According to the available information, the result of SSC and class 12 can be declared very soon. Let us tell you that the class 10 exam was held from March 11 to March 22, the result of which may be declared this year i.e. in the month of May or by the end of April. Information will be provided in due course and date and time shirt will be announced for more details read all information below carefully.

Gujarat 10th Result 2024: Gujarat Board Result 2024 Date

All the students who are eagerly waiting for the results of class 10 and 12, let me tell you that now the work of paper verification has been completed, if the sources are to be believed, the work of data entry i.e. the work of mark sheet has also been completed by the end of April. After that the result will be announced. On the other hand, as the Lok Sabha election is on, the board has decided that the result should be announced before the election. After the announcement, one can check his result at home by entering the roll number through the official website. The procedure for checking the result is given below.

Gujarat Board Result 2024 Date and Time

Gujarat board will announce the result of class 10 and 12 by the end of April but till now no information has been given by the board regarding this matter, while the students are waiting for the Gujarat board result, let us tell all the students that the result was announced last year around the month of May. was This year also the result may be announced in the first week or second week of May. The date and time of the result will also be decided very soon. As for the time, after the announcement of the date of the result, the time and other instructions will be given to the students by the board.

Read the below procedure carefully to check the result of class 10 and 12 Official website after the announcement of all student board result date www.gseb.org You can check by going to the link of the result is given on the official website, after clicking on it you have to enter your roll number or other details and click on the submit button, then you will see your result in front of you.

You can also download this result through print out and you can easily get the original copy from your school, apart from this you will also get other details related to the result on this official website. will be seen in the mark sheet

Ayush Sharma said, Khan family does not take my decisions Aayush Sharma Says Khan Family Doesn't Take My Decisions: Says 'I Have My Own Mind, I'm Salman Khan's Student'

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Bollywood actor and Salman Khan’s girlfriend Aayush Sharma will soon be seen in the film ‘Ruslan’. The film will release on April 26. Recently in an interview, Aayush spoke about his bonding with Salman and people’s misconceptions.

Salman and Ayush Sharma

Salman and Ayush Sharma

I am Salman Khan’s student: Aayush

In a media interaction, Aayush praised Salman Khan and said that whenever he supports something, he joins him wholeheartedly. When the trailer of ‘Ruslan’ was launched I didn’t know they would post it on their social media handles but when I saw the caption it touched my heart. It feels great when the person who groomed and taught you praises you. Every Arjuna wants to be flattered by his Dronacharya. They are not praised for this because I am their baneevi. He does it because I am his student. Such praise always touches the heart.

‘Khan family doesn’t take my decisions’
Aayush further said that people have a misconception that all decisions about me are taken by Salman Khan and Aayush said that is not the case at all. I too have my own mind and there is no truth in this news. They love me so much. Meanwhile, Ayush also talked about his first film ‘Lavayatri’. He considered his acting in the film to be very weak.

Ayush and Arpita

Ayush and Arpita

Married to Arpita Khan
Ayush is married to Salman’s younger sister Arpita. The two got married on 18 November 2014 at Hotel Falaknuma in Hyderabad. Salman himself took the responsibility of this marriage. A grand reception party was also organized in Mumbai after the wedding. Now both have become parents of two children.

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Parineeti Chopra talks about her first meeting with Raghav Parineeti Chopra Talks About First Meeting Raghav: Not Knowing Who He Was, Actress Praises Husband, Says 'He's Best Husband'

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Actress Parineeti Chopra talked about her marriage with husband Raghav Chadha. During an interview, Parineeti said that after marriage, she has immersed herself in politics to a great extent. But still they don’t have complete information. The actress said that after marriage she is trying her best to enter politics. But Raghav is still not interested in entertainment.

The actress said- God only knows what she last saw on the screen. He knows nothing about movies. But he knows little about music. Parineeti said that she will listen to a song from my film, but she cannot say that it is a song from my film.

Continuing her point, Parineeti said – I ask them to pretend they know everything. The actress said that she likes this very much. He said the best thing is that she doesn’t know about politics and Raghav doesn’t know anything about entertainment.

Parineeti Chopra did not know who Raghav was
Parineeti revealed when she first met Raghav. At that time she did not know who Raghav was. But now I know them, who they are and what they do. He is one of the most influential people. He is the youngest member to become an MP. He became a part of such a big party at the age of 35. The work he is doing is really admirable.

Parineeti said- I sometimes wonder how they do it. I told them you are still a child…how do you do so much. Continuing her point, the actress said – that is why it is good to marry someone who is not from the industry. I am a very Sufi soul.

I have a life outside the film industry as well. So if my husband was also from the same industry, I would have gone crazy. It has made my life more normal. I always wanted to be like this. I married the best man in the world. It may be mentioned here that Parineeti Chopra married AAP MP Raghav Chadha on September 24.

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'Tappu Sena' of 'Tarak Mehta...' is rich Tarak Mehta's 'Tappu Sena' is rich: some have houses worth Rs 2 crore, some have started businesses, some want to study from the earnings.

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Sonu Bhide aka Palak Sidhwani of ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma’ recently bought his second car (Hyundai Creta). The actress had earlier bought her first car (Hyundai i20) in the year 2021. He has also bought a house in Mumbai this year. The special thing is that Palak is only 26 years old.

By the way, Palak is not the only actress in the ‘Taarak Mehta…’ team who has owned a house and a car at a young age. Every actor of ‘Tappu Sena’ has left a special impression on the show. These actors earned a lot based on the popularity of the show and the role.

Many of them fulfilled their dream of buying their own home while some started their own business with their earnings. Let’s know about them:

Gogi aka Samay Shah
Age: 23 years

Samay Shah who plays Gurucharan Singh Sodhi is 23 years old. He is still associated with the show today. He was just 7 years old when he started working on the show 15 years ago. Over the past 15 years, time has earned a lot. The actor owns a 3 BHK flat in a posh area of ​​Mumbai. The price of this house is approximately 1.5 crore rupees.

When Samay joined the show, he was getting Rs 2000 per episode. Now his fee has gone up to Rs 15000 per episode.

Pinku aka Azhar Sheikh
Age: 31 years

Azhar is playing the role of Pinku in the show. He started his career with this show. 7 years ago, Azhar bought his house in Mumbai’s Mira Road area. The price of this house at that time was approximately 50 lakhs. However, Azhar has also retained some of his earnings.

Along with acting, he also has his own business. Azhar has also opened his own juice shop in the city of Surat, Gujarat, which earns him a good income. Azhar gets Rs 15000 per episode for ‘Taarak Mehta…’.

Another Sonu aka Nidhi Bhanushali
Age: 25 years

Nidhi, who played the role of Sonu in the show, bought his first Skoda Rapid car at the age of just 21. In the year 2022, he bought a beach house in Alibaug which is said to cost around 25 lakh rupees.

Nidhi started her career as a child artist at the age of 11. Worked in ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma’ for 5 years. In the year 2017, he said goodbye to this show.

Third Sonu aka Palak Sidhwani
Age: 26 years

The year 2021 was very special for Palak. The same year, the actress bought a 3 BHK flat in Mumbai and a Hyundai car. Currently, the actress has also bought another car. At just 26, Palak owns a house and two cars.

First Tappu aka Bhavi Gandhi
Age: 26 years

Bhavi Gandhi acted in the role of ‘Chote Tappu’ in the show for many years. However, he left the show in 2017, considering his career. Bhavya bought an Audi car in the year 2012. Bhavya is currently working in Gujarati films.

Goli aka Kush Shah
Age: 25 years

Kush has been a part of ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma’ since its inception. It has been 15 years since he worked on the show. It is believed that Kush intends to invest his entire earnings in his studies. His desire is to complete his business studies in America.

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Ram Gopal Varma made a shocking revelation Ram Gopal Verma made a shocking revelation: AR took fees from Subhash Ghai. Rahman produced the song with Sukhwinder, saying, 'I paid for the name, not the music'.

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Ram Gopal Varma recently shared the story of the fight between Subhash Ghai and musician AR Rahman. Talking to Film Companion, he said that during the shooting of the film ‘Yuvraj’, there was a heated argument between the two. After discussion, A.R. Rahman gave his song to another filmmaker instead of Subhash Ghai, for which he also won an Oscar.

AR Rahman Music Director of Subhash Ghai’s ‘Yuvraaj’
Ram Gopal Varma said that AR Rahman was hired as the music director for the 2008 film ‘Yuvraaj’. Director Subhash Ghai asked him to compose the music of the song, but due to busy schedules, he could not deliver the song on time. When there was a delay in making the song, Subhash Ghai called AR Rahman and told him a lot. In response to which AR Rahman said, I am in London. Leaving for Chennai, will come back and see you at Sukhwinder Singh’s studio.

When Subhash Ghai reached Sukhwinder Singh’s studio on the appointed date, he found him composing music. When Subhash Ghai was asked about the music, he replied that AR Rahman had asked him to compose the music for the song. Hearing this, Subhash Ghai got angry. He felt that due to pressure, AR Rahman started getting work from Sukhwinder instead of doing the work himself. He felt that Sukhwinder had told him by mistake.

After some time AR Rahman reached the studio, he asked Sukhwinder in front of Subhash Ghai if the song was ready or not. AR Rahman heard the song composed by Sukhwinder and asked Subhash Ghai how he liked the song.

Hearing this, Subhash Ghai got angry. He shouted, I am paying crores of rupees to make you my music director and make tunes from Sukhwinder. How dare you say that in front of me. If I Sukhwinder Why should I pay you to have a tune made by? I would have signed them. Who are you to take money from me and make a song for Sukhwinder?

After listening to Subhash Ghai, AR Rahman told him, Sir, you pay me in my name, not for my music. If I support this song, it’s my song. You knew when you came here, but how do you know who got the rhythm music from. Maybe that music was composed by my driver or someone else.

Before 'Yuvraaj', AR Rahman and Subhash Ghai worked together in 'Taal' and 'Kissna'.

Before ‘Yuvraaj’, AR Rahman and Subhash Ghai worked together in ‘Taal’ and ‘Kissna’.

AR Rahman won an Oscar for the same song
AR Rahman and Subhash Ghai had an argument and the song was not kept in the film. A few years later the same song was used by A.R. Rehman in the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, titled ‘Jai Ho’. AR Rahman won an Oscar for this song. Some time ago Subhash Ghai also said in an interview that the song ‘Jai Ho’ was made for the film ‘Yuvraaj’, but it did not suit the theme of the film, so he removed it from the film.

Although the 2008 film ‘Yuvraaj’ was a huge flop at the box office, its songs were well-liked. The film’s song ‘Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hai’ was a chartbuster

Dadasaheb Torne gave the map to Indian cinema Dadasaheb Torne, who gave the map to Indian cinema: Made India's first film, but got no credit; He suffered a heart-attack after the camera was stolen

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In the history of Indian cinema, the film Raja Harishchandra released in the year 1913 is said to be the first film of the country, which was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. Dadasaheb Phalke is known as the father of Indian cinema, although a film made a year earlier in 1912 made history. That film was made by Dadasaheb Torne. This film was certainly the first, but it was neither considered the first film in history nor Dadasaheb Torne, who made it, considered the father of films. The only reason was that he took the help of foreigners in his film. An initiative to give him credit was started 100 years after the release of the first film, but the results did not go in his favor. Along with making the first film, Dadasaheb Torne is also India’s first editor, director, exhibitor and owner of a movie camera company. It was with his help that the film-makers in India got a boost.

Today in Ansu’s Dastan, read the story of Dadasaheb Torne creating history but disappearing from history –

Lost father’s shadow at a young age, relatives did not support
Dadasaheb Torne was born exactly 134 years ago on 13 April 1890 in Malwan village near Mumbai. His father died suddenly when he was only 3 years old. Relatives kicked him, his mother and grandfather out of the house after his father’s death. There was no place to live, as well as no source of income. In such a situation, his family had to face constant problems.

Facing starvation, his entire family came to Bombay (now Mumbai) in search of work. 10-year-old Dadasaheb Torne got a job at Greaves Cotton Green Electric Company in Mumbai, where he started repairing machines.

The idea of ​​making films in India came after watching foreign films
While working on the machines, Dadasaheb Torne got interested in machines and started learning their working closely. After being free from work, Dadasaheb often used to go to see the plays of Shripad Theater Company. In such a position he became well acquainted with the people of the theatre. In those days, films imported from abroad were sometimes shown in Shripad Theater Company.

It was around 1910. One day Dadasaheb Torne came to watch a foreign film. He watched the film and thought deeply about how it could have happened. 21-22 year old Dadasaheb Torne who already had deep knowledge of machines decided to make his own film.

When he needed money, his friend helped him and sent a camera-reel from abroad
Dadasaheb Torne worked menial jobs in an electric company, the meager salary of which was not enough to fulfill his dream of making films. When financial help was needed, Dadasaheb Torne sought help from his friend Shri Nana Saheb Chitre, who was also the financier of the theater company. Nana Sahib used to bring films from abroad and show them in India. He liked Dadasaheb Torne’s idea and agreed to give money.

The first camera and reel arrived in India at a cost of Rs 1000
As soon as the money was arranged, Dadasaheb Torne bought all the necessary equipment including cameras and reels for film making from a London company, which cost around Rs. 1000 was. The company also sent an operator with the camera, who taught Dadasaheb Torne to operate the video camera. Dadasaheb Torne was the first person in India who knew the technique of handling a camera.

After this he wrote the mythological play ‘Sri Pundalik’ along with Nana Saheb Chitre and friend Ramrao Kritikar. The play was based on the mythological character Pundalik.

Borrowed money for artists’ fees
After the script was ready, Dadasaheb Torne persuaded the actors of the theater group to shoot the film by paying a fee. He had spent all the money on buying machinery for the film, so he borrowed money from some close friends to pay the actors’ fees and arrange their accommodation and food.

The first film was shot at a theater in Grant Road, Mumbai
For shooting, he chose a theater located on Grant Road in Mumbai. To avoid any disturbance during the shooting, he called a cameraman named Johnson from abroad, who helped Dadasaheb Torne in the recording. The entire 22-minute play was recorded with cameras set up at one location. This was the era, when there was no option for close-up shots, pan and tilt shots due to lack of technology.

When Dadasaheb Torne saw the recording, he did not like the film shot from a single camera angle. After discussing with cameraman Johnson, he decided to shoot the film from different angles. He used to shoot film from one angle in one reel and then change the angle and use a new reel in another place. When the shooting was over, he finished the film by putting all the reels in sequence.

After the shooting, the film reel was sent to London for processing
After the shooting of ‘Shri Pundalik’, Dadasaheb Torne sent a 1500 feet long reel to London for processing, as there was no company in India to process reels at that time.

Dadasaheb Torne is India’s first promoter, the film’s promotional advertisement was published in a newspaper

The film ‘Shri Pundalik’ was a 22-minute feature film, the first film made in India. When the movie was screened at the Coronation Cinema in Mumbai, crowds started gathering to watch it. In 1912, Dadasaheb Torne, with the help of Coronation Cinema, published a promotional advertisement for the film ‘Shri Pundlik’ in the Times of India newspaper to spread the word about the film.

It was written in the advertisement – Pundalik-Pundalik, a popular Hindu drama, half of the Hindu population of Mumbai city has seen this film and we want the remaining half of the Hindu population to also watch this film.

Promotional advertisement of the film published in Times of India.

Promotional advertisement of the film published in Times of India.

The film benefited from advertisements printed in newspapers and people started coming to watch the film continuously. The crowd was so great that the film was screened for 2 weeks at the Coronation Cinema Hall.

Dadasaheb became India’s first distributor
After making his first film ‘Shri Pundalik’, Dadasaheb Torne was transferred to Karachi by his company (Greaves Cotton Electric). In Karachi he met a man named Baburao Pai, who was interested in films. Together, they started a small office in Karachi, where they arranged and screened films from abroad. Over time, films began to be distributed in many cities including Karachi, Kolhapur. Thus Dadasaheb Torne became India’s first film distributor.

Dadasaheb Torne started a movie camera company in Bombay
Dada Saheb used to work in an electric company, but quit when his earnings started increasing from film distribution. Dadasaheb Torne became good friends with the Americans during World War I. Started a movie camera company in India with the help of his contacts.

Film production increased in India due to Dadasaheb Torne’s company
After Dadasaheb Phalke, many different people were making films in India, but cameras and other equipment for making films were always imported from abroad. Opening of movie camera companies in India helped many people to make films and started promoting film production in India. In those days, everyone used to buy cameras from Dadasaheb Torne to make films. When the trend of making films came, his company also became profitable.

Film distribution company started in 1929, earning in crores
Along with the movie camera company, Dadasaheb Torne also started a famous film distribution company in Bombay with his friend Baburao Pai from Karachi. It was the only official distribution company of that era, which distributed Indian films. The company used to deliver films made across the country to theaters, the company earned crores of rupees from ticket sales.

Dadasaheb Torne understood the value of films, found films about the stories of changing times, apart from being a cinema lover, Dadasaheb Torne also knew the importance of cinema very well. He believed that the industry will only move forward when it is updated with new technology. When talking films started being made in Hollywood, they started showing Hollywood talking films instead of Hindi films.

When foreign sound films began to attract more people than Indian silent films, Dadasaheb Torne went to London and trained in sound recording and returned to India with the machines. Dadasaheb Torne had given up making films, so he persuaded his friend Ardeshar Irani to make India’s first talking film and provided him with sound recording machines.

The country’s first sound film ‘Alam Ara’ was made in 2 months
Dadasaheb Torne feared that as soon as sound technology was invented, everyone would start making sound films. In this situation, he secretly made the film ‘Alam Ara’ in 2 months.

India’s first talking film ‘Alam Ara’ created history. A large number of people came to watch the talking film and Ardeshar Irani’s name went down in the history of Hindi cinema. However, even at this time, Dadasaheb Torne did not take credit. To further promote sound films, he procured sound recorders from abroad and supplied them to Prabhat, Ranjith, Wadia, every major studio of that time.

Started his own production house and made 17 films
Dadasaheb Torne started his production house Saraswati Cineton in Pune to make films on social issues rather than entertainment. The first film of the production ‘Sham Sundar’ was a huge success. In addition, he made around 17 films in Hindi and Marathi languages ​​including Ot Ghatachecha.

Copies of the film were burned, studios sold out
With changing times, films from other productions started becoming hits and Dadasaheb Torne reduced the production of films. There was only one copy of his films, which were shown in each city, but most of his film reels were destroyed in a fire.

The studio had to be sold due to financial constraints
Dadasaheb Torne sold his studio to a person named Ahmad in 1944 due to lack of money. The man sold the studio to Chakan Oil Mill and himself went to Pakistan at the time of partition. Today there is Kumar Pacific Mall at the same place.

Betrayal ensued amid divisions and riots
During the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, many Muslims left for Pakistan. Meanwhile, a close Muslim friend of Dada stole all his expensive equipment and fled to Pakistan. He was so fond of cameras and film making equipment that he could not bear the shock. He suffered a heart-attack and after that he stopped doing films forever. After retirement, he distanced himself from people associated with the film industry and started living alone in his house in Shivaji Nagar. Dadasaheb Torne died in his sleep on 19 January 1960.

100 years later the credit war started
In 2013, Dadasaheb Torne’s son Anil Torne, daughter-in-law Mangala Torne and Vikas Patil, an associate of the Motion Picture Producers Association, filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking credit for him. His plea was rejected that the 1912 film Shree Pundalik was a recording of a play and therefore could not be given the status of a first feature film. It was also said that the film was sent abroad for processing and the cameraman was also a foreigner. While Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, released a year later, was made entirely in India.

Dadasaheb Torne He is called the father of Hindi cinema in world records
Even though in the history of Hindi cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke is called the father of Hindi cinema, although this record in the Guinness Book of World Records is in the name of Dadasaheb Torne. He has also been considered as the father in Indian cinema and Marathi cinema books.

An In-Depth Guide And Best Practices For Mobile SEO

Over the years, search engines have encouraged businesses to improve mobile experience on their websites. More than 60% of web traffic comes from mobile, and in some cases based on the industry, mobile traffic can reach up to 90%.

Since Google has completed its switch to mobile-first indexing, the question is no longer “if” your website should be optimized for mobile, but how well it is adapted to meet these criteria. A new challenge has emerged for SEO professionals with the introduction of Interaction to Next Paint (INP), which replaced First Input Delay (FID) starting March, 12 2024.

Thus, understanding mobile SEO’s latest advancements, especially with the shift to INP, is crucial. This guide offers practical steps to optimize your site effectively for today’s mobile-focused SEO requirements.

What Is Mobile SEO And Why Is It Important?

The goal of mobile SEO is to optimize your website to attain better visibility in search engine results specifically tailored for mobile devices.

This form of SEO not only aims to boost search engine rankings, but also prioritizes enhancing mobile user experience through both content and technology.

While, in many ways, mobile SEO and traditional SEO share similar practices, additional steps related to site rendering and content are required to meet the needs of mobile users and the speed requirements of mobile devices.

Does this need to be a priority for your website? How urgent is it?

Consider this: 58% of the world’s web traffic comes from mobile devices.

If you aren’t focused on mobile users, there is a good chance you’re missing out on a tremendous amount of traffic.

Mobile-First Indexing

Additionally, as of 2023, Google has switched its crawlers to a mobile-first indexing priority.

This means that the mobile experience of your site is critical to maintaining efficient indexing, which is the step before ranking algorithms come into play.

Read more: Where We Are Today With Google’s Mobile-First Index

How Much Of Your Traffic Is From Mobile?

How much traffic potential you have with mobile users can depend on various factors, including your industry (B2B sites might attract primarily desktop users, for example) and the search intent your content addresses (users might prefer desktop for larger purchases, for example).

Regardless of where your industry and the search intent of your users might be, the future will demand that you optimize your site experience for mobile devices.

How can you assess your current mix of mobile vs. desktop users?

An easy way to see what percentage of your users is on mobile is to go into Google Analytics 4.

  • Click Reports in the left column.
  • Click on the Insights icon on the right side of the screen.
  • Scroll down to Suggested Questions and click on it.
  • Click on Technology.
  • Click on Top Device model by Users.
  • Then click on Top Device category by Users under Related Results.
  • The breakdown of Top Device category will match the date range selected at the top of GA4.
A chart from Google Analytics 4 showing a comparison of mobile, desktop, tablet, and Smart TV traffic to a siteScreenshot from GA4, March 2024

You can also set up a report in Looker Studio.

  • Add your site to the Data source.
  • Add Device category to the Dimension field.
  • Add 30-day active users to the Metric field.
  • Click on Chart to select the view that works best for you.
A screen capture from Looker Studio showing a pie chart with a breakdown of mobile, desktop, tablet, and Smart TV users for a siteScreenshot from Looker Studio, March 2024

You can add more Dimensions to really dig into the data to see which pages attract which type of users, what the mobile-to-desktop mix is by country, which search engines send the most mobile users, and so much more.

Read more: Why Mobile And Desktop Rankings Are Different

How To Check If Your Site Is Mobile-Friendly

Now that you know how to build a report on mobile and desktop usage, you need to figure out if your site is optimized for mobile traffic.

While Google removed the mobile-friendly testing tool from Google Search Console in December 2023, there are still a number of useful tools for evaluating your site for mobile users.

Bing still has a mobile-friendly testing tool that will tell you the following:

  • Viewport is configured correctly.
  • Page content fits device width.
  • Text on the page is readable.
  • Links and tap targets are sufficiently large and touch-friendly.
  • Any other issues detected.

Google’s Lighthouse Chrome extension provides you with an evaluation of your site’s performance across several factors, including load times, accessibility, and SEO.

To use, install the Lighthouse Chrome extension.

  • Go to your website in your browser.
  • Click on the orange lighthouse icon in your browser’s address bar.
  • Click Generate Report.
  • A new tab will open and display your scores once the evaluation is complete.
An image showing the Lighthouse Scores for a website.Screenshot from Lighthouse, March 2024

You can also use the Lighthouse report in Developer Tools in Chrome.

  • Simply click on the three dots next to the address bar.
  • Select “More Tools.”
  • Select Developer Tools.
  • Click on the Lighthouse tab.
  • Choose “Mobile” and click the “Analyze page load” button.
An image showing how to get to Lighthouse within Google Chrome Developer Tools.Screenshot from Lighthouse, March 2024

Another option that Google offers is the PageSpeed Insights (PSI) tool. Simply add your URL into the field and click Analyze.

PSI will integrate any Core Web Vitals scores into the resulting view so you can see what your users are experiencing when they come to your site.

An image showing the PageSpeed Insights scores for a website.Screenshot from PageSpeed Insights, March 2024

Other tools, like WebPageTest.org, will graphically display the processes and load times for everything it takes to display your webpages.

With this information, you can see which processes block the loading of your pages, which ones take the longest to load, and how this affects your overall page load times.

You can also emulate the mobile experience by using Developer Tools in Chrome, which allows you to switch back and forth between a desktop and mobile experience.

An image showing how to change the device emulation for a site within Google Chrome Developer ToolsScreenshot from Google Chrome Developer Tools, March 2024

Lastly, use your own mobile device to load and navigate your website:

  • Does it take forever to load?
  • Are you able to navigate your site to find the most important information?
  • Is it easy to add something to cart?
  • Can you read the text?

Read more: Google PageSpeed Insights Reports: A Technical Guide

How To Optimize Your Site Mobile-First

With all these tools, keep an eye on the Performance and Accessibility scores, as these directly affect mobile users.

Expand each section within the PageSpeed Insights report to see what elements are affecting your score.

These sections can give your developers their marching orders for optimizing the mobile experience.

While mobile speeds for cellular networks have steadily improved around the world (the average speed in the U.S. has jumped to 27.06 Mbps from 11.14 Mbps in just eight years), speed and usability for mobile users are at a premium.

Read more: Top 7 SEO Benefits Of Responsive Web Design

Best Practices For Mobile Optimization

Unlike traditional SEO, which can focus heavily on ensuring that you are using the language of your users as it relates to the intersection of your products/services and their needs, optimizing for mobile SEO can seem very technical SEO-heavy.

While you still need to be focused on matching your content with the needs of the user, mobile search optimization will require the aid of your developers and designers to be fully effective.

Below are several key factors in mobile SEO to keep in mind as you’re optimizing your site.

Site Rendering

How your site responds to different devices is one of the most important elements in mobile SEO.

The two most common approaches to this are responsive design and dynamic serving.

Responsive design is the most common of the two options.

Using your site’s cascading style sheets (CSS) and flexible layouts, as well as responsive content delivery networks (CDN) and modern image file types, responsive design allows your site to adjust to a variety of screen sizes, orientations, and resolutions.

With the responsive design, elements on the page adjust in size and location based on the size of the screen.

You can simply resize the window of your desktop browser and see how this works.

An image showing the difference between Web.dev in a full desktop display vs. a mobile display using responsive design.Screenshot from web.dev, March 2024

This is the approach that Google recommends.

Adaptive design, also known as dynamic serving, consists of multiple fixed layouts that are dynamically served to the user based on their device.

Sites can have a separate layout for desktop, smartphone, and tablet users. Each design can be modified to remove functionality that may not make sense for certain device types.

This is a less efficient approach, but it does give sites more control over what each device sees.

While these will not be covered here, two other options:

  • Progressive Web Apps (PWA), which can seamlessly integrate into a mobile app.
  • Separate mobile site/URL (which is no longer recommended).

Read more: An Introduction To Rendering For SEO

Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Google has introduced Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a more comprehensive measure of user experience, succeeding First Input Delay. While FID measures the time from when a user first interacts with your page (e.g., clicking a link, tapping a button) to the time when the browser is actually able to begin processing event handlers in response to that interaction. INP, on the other hand, broadens the scope by measuring the responsiveness of a website throughout the entire lifespan of a page, not just first interaction.

Note that actions such as hovering and scrolling do not influence INP, however, keyboard-driven scrolling or navigational actions are considered keystrokes that may activate events measured by INP but not scrolling which is happeing due to interaction.

Scrolling may indirectly affect INP, for example in scenarios where users scroll through content, and additional content is lazy-loaded from the API. While the act of scrolling itself isn’t included in the INP calculation, the processing, necessary for loading additional content, can create contention on the main thread, thereby increasing interaction latency and adversely affecting the INP score.

What qualifies as an optimal INP score?

  • An INP under 200ms indicates good responsiveness.
  • Between 200ms and 500ms needs improvement.
  • Over 500ms means page has poor responsiveness.

and these are common issues causing poor INP scores:

  1. Long JavaScript Tasks: Heavy JavaScript execution can block the main thread, delaying the browser’s ability to respond to user interactions. Thus break long JS tasks into smaller chunks by using scheduler API.
  2. Large DOM (HTML) Size: A large DOM ( starting from 1500 elements) can severely impact a website’s interactive performance. Every additional DOM element increases the work required to render pages and respond to user interactions.
  3. Inefficient Event Callbacks: Event handlers that execute lengthy or complex operations can significantly affect INP scores. Poorly optimized callbacks attached to user interactions, like clicks, keypress or taps, can block the main thread, delaying the browser’s ability to render visual feedback promptly. For example when handlers perform heavy computations or initiate synchronous network requests such on clicks.

and you can troubleshoot INP issues using free and paid tools.

As a good starting point I would recommend to check your INP scores by geos via treo.sh which will give you a great high level insights where you struggle with most.

INP scores by GeosINP scores by Geos

Read more: How To Improve Interaction To Next Paint (INP)

Image Optimization

Images add a lot of value to the content on your site and can greatly affect the user experience.

From page speeds to image quality, you could adversely affect the user experience if you haven’t optimized your images.

This is especially true for the mobile experience. Images need to adjust to smaller screens, varying resolutions, and screen orientation.

  • Use responsive images
  • Implement lazy loading
  • Compress your images (use WebP)
  • Add your images into sitemap

Optimizing images is an entire science, and I advise you to read our comprehensive guide on image SEO how to implement the mentioned recommendations.

Avoid Intrusive Interstitials

Google rarely uses concrete language to state that something is a ranking factor or will result in a penalty, so you know it means business about intrusive interstitials in the mobile experience.

Intrusive interstitials are basically pop-ups on a page that prevent the user from seeing content on the page.

John Mueller, Google’s Senior Search Analyst, stated that they are specifically interested in the first interaction a user has after clicking on a search result.

Examples of intrusive interstitial pop-ups on a mobile site according to Google.

Not all pop-ups are considered bad. Interstitial types that are considered “intrusive” by Google include:

  • Pop-ups that cover most or all of the page content.
  • Non-responsive interstitials or pop-ups that are impossible for mobile users to close.
  • Pop-ups that are not triggered by a user action, such as a scroll or a click.

Read more: 7 Tips To Keep Pop-Ups From Harming Your SEO

Structured Data

Most of the tips provided in this guide so far are focused on usability and speed and have an additive effect, but there are changes that can directly influence how your site appears in mobile search results.

Search engine results pages (SERPs) haven’t been the “10 blue links” in a very long time.

They now reflect the diversity of search intent, showing a variety of different sections to meet the needs of users. Local Pack, shopping listing ads, video content, and more dominate the mobile search experience.

As a result, it’s more important than ever to provide structured data markup to the search engines, so they can display rich results for users.

In this example, you can see that both Zojirushi and Amazon have included structured data for their rice cookers, and Google is displaying rich results for both.

An image of a search result for Japanese rice cookers that shows rich results for Zojirushi and Amazon.Screenshot from search for [Japanese rice cookers], Google, March 2024

Adding structured data markup to your site can influence how well your site shows up for local searches and product-related searches.

Using JSON-LD, you can mark up the business, product, and services data on your pages in Schema markup.

If you use WordPress as the content management system for your site, there are several plugins available that will automatically mark up your content with structured data.

Read more: What Structured Data To Use And Where To Use It?

Content Style

When you think about your mobile users and the screens on their devices, this can greatly influence how you write your content.

Rather than long, detailed paragraphs, mobile users prefer concise writing styles for mobile reading.

Each key point in your content should be a single line of text that easily fits on a mobile screen.

Your font sizes should adjust to the screen’s resolution to avoid eye strain for your users.

If possible, allow for a dark or dim mode for your site to further reduce eye strain.

Headers should be concise and address the searcher’s intent. Rather than lengthy section headers, keep it simple.

Finally, make sure that your text renders in a font size that’s readable.

Read more: 10 Tips For Creating Mobile-Friendly Content

Tap Targets

As important as text size, the tap targets on your pages should be sized and laid out appropriately.

Tap targets include navigation elements, links, form fields, and buttons like “Add to Cart” buttons.

Targets smaller than 48 pixels by 48 pixels and targets that overlap or are overlapped by other page elements will be called out in the Lighthouse report.

Tap targets are essential to the mobile user experience, especially for ecommerce websites, so optimizing them is vital to the health of your online business.

Read more: Google’s Lighthouse SEO Audit Tool Now Measures Tap Target Spacing

Prioritizing These Tips

If you have delayed making your site mobile-friendly until now, this guide may feel overwhelming. As a result, you may not know what to prioritize first.

As with so many other optimizations in SEO, it’s important to understand which changes will have the greatest impact, and this is just as true for mobile SEO.

Think of SEO as a framework in which your site’s technical aspects are the foundation of your content. Without a solid foundation, even the best content may struggle to rank.

  • Responsive or Dynamic Rendering: If your site requires the user to zoom and scroll right or left to read the content on your pages, no number of other optimizations can help you. This should be first on your list.
  • Content Style: Rethink how your users will consume your content online. Avoid very long paragraphs. “Brevity is the soul of wit,” to quote Shakespeare.
  • Image Optimization: Begin migrating your images to next-gen image formats and optimize your content display network for speed and responsiveness.
  • Tap Targets: A site that prevents users from navigating or converting into sales won’t be in business long. Make navigation, links, and buttons usable for them.
  • Structured Data: While this element ranks last in priority on this list, rich results can improve your chances of receiving traffic from a search engine, so add this to your to-do list once you’ve completed the other optimizations.

Summary

From How Search Works, “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

If Google’s primary mission is focused on making all the world’s information accessible and useful, then you know they will prefer surfacing sites that align with that vision.

Since a growing percentage of users are on mobile devices, you may want to infer the word “everywhere” added to the end of the mission statement.

Are you missing out on traffic from mobile devices because of a poor mobile experience?

If you hope to remain relevant, make mobile SEO a priority now.


Featured Image: Paulo Bobita/Search Engine Journal