The cinema of Rajasthan (Rajjywood) refers to films produced in

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

in north-western

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. These films are produced in various regional and tribal languages including

Rajasthani Rajasthani may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Rajasthan, a state of India * Rajasthani languages, a group of languages spoken there * Rajasthani people, the native inhabitants of the region * Rajasthani architecture * Rajasthani art ...

varieties such as

Mewari Mewari is an Indo-Aryan language of the Rajasthani group. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan state and Mandsaur, Neemuch districts of Madhya Prades ...

, Marwari,

Hadoti Hadoti is a region of Rajasthan state in western India, which was once called the Bundi Kingdom. The biggest cities are Jhalawar and Kota. It includes the districts of Bundi, Baran, Jhalawar and Kota and is bounded on the west by the Mew ...

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The first Rajasthani movie was '' Nazrana'', a Marwari film directed by G. P. Kapoor and released in 1942. ''Babasa Ri Ladli'', produced by B. K. Adarsh, was released in 1961 and has been described as the first hit Rajasthani movie. The 1983 film '' Mhari Pyri Channana'' by producer and director Jatinkumar Agarrwal was the first Silver jubilee film in Rajasthani. Between 1987 and 1995 a number of Rajasthani films were produced, including the musical ''

Bai Chali Sasariye ''Bai Chali Sasariye'' is a 1988 Rajasthani language film. The movie ran for 100 days and thus created a history in Rajasthan cinema. It was reported in 2004 that the film helped revive interest in films made in the Rajasthani language, but an a ...

'' from 1988, which was reported to be the only successful Rajasthani-language film production in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the mid-1990s, the number of films produced in Rajasthan has been low, for reasons including lack of promotion and poor production quality.Regional film industry in Rajasthan in peril
screenindia.com 27 June 2008, archived version retrieved 8 September 2014 Film producers in Rajasthani cinema include B. K. Adarsh, Ram Raj Nahta, Bharat Nahta, Bhanu Prakash Rathi, and Ajai Chowdhary, and directors include Nawal Mathur of Jodhpur, Mohan Singh Rathor, Mohan Kataria, Ajit Singh, and Bhanu Prakash Rathi. Neelu Vaghela, Gajendra S. Shrotriya, and Jatinkumar Agarrwal have been both producers and directors. To encourage the production of Rajasthani movies, a

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for cinemas in towns and cities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants was announced in the 2008 budget of the Rajasthani Government, and the entertainment tax was lowered.Boomtime for Rajasthan cinema
Screen India 28 March 2008, archived version retrieved 7 Sep 2014

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