KAMALABAI GOKHALE THE FIRST ACTRESS ,OF INDIAN CIMA

KAMALABAI GOKHALE 

THE FIRST ACTRESS ,OF INDIAN CIMA 

Kamlabai Gokhale, born Kamlabai Kamath, was the first actress of Indian cinema, along with her mother Durgabai Kamat.
Personal life
She was the daughter of Durgabai Kamat, who was the first female actress of Indian cinema and Anand Nanoskar, a professor of history at the J.J. School of Art . She married Raghunathrao Gokhale and had three children, Chandrakant Gokhale, Lalji Gokhale and Suryakant Gokhale. Chandrakant Gokhale is one of them, who is the father of Vikram Gokhale (occasionally credited as Vikram Gokhle) is well known Indian film, television and stage actor. Lalji Gokhale and Suryakant Gokhale were acclaimed Tabala maestros. Kamlabai was 25 when she became a widow, pregnant with her third child.

Career

Her first stage appearance was at the age of four. Around 1912-1913 Dadasaheb Phalke, the pioneering film-maker of India, was casting for his film Mohini Bhasmasur and he choose Kamlabai for the lead.[2] Durgabai was Parvati. Phalke had been forced to use a young male cook, Salunke, to play the female lead in his earlier film, Raja Harishchandra, for lack of an actress. By the time she was 15, Kamlabai had become a celebrity. The following year she married Raghunathrao Gokhale. He had been with the Kirloskar Natak Company where he usually performed female roles. But his voice was breaking and so he moved to his brother’s company, which was the same one where Kamlabai and her mother were employed. The young couple was cast as the new lead pair of the company. In the 1930s, Kamlabai worked under Veer Savarkar in the play Ushaap, which focussed on the plight of Harijans.[3] Kamalabai worked in around 35 movies. Her last film was Gehrayee (1980).

Filmography
1980 Gehrayee
1972 Ek Nazar
1971 Hulchul
1967 Balyakalasakhi
1954 Nastik Kamla
1952 Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag
1949 Navajeevanam Kamala
1946 Haqdar
1946 Sona Chandi
1944 Stunt King
1939 Garib Ka Lal
1938 Chabukwali
1938 Street Singer (as Miss Kamala)
1936 Aakhri Galti
1936 Be Kharab Jan
1936 Prabhu Ka Pyara
1935 Barrister’s Wife
1935 Bikhare Moti
1934 Afghan Abla
1934 Ambarish
1934 Gunsundari Sushila
1933 Aurat Ka Dil
1933 Bhola Shikar
1933 Bhool Bhulaiyan
1933 Chandrahasa

1933 Krishna Sudama
1933 Lal-e-Yaman Lalarukh
1933 Mirza Sahiban
1933 Rajrani Meera
1932 Bhutio Mahal
1932 Char Chakram
1932 Niti Vijay
1932 Sheil Bala
1931 Devi Devayani Sharmistha (as Miss Kamala)
1913 Mohini Bhasmasur