1. Arrival of cinema: Cinema arrived in Bombay (now Mumbai) on July 7, 1896, when an advertisement invited an audience to Watson’s Hotel for a screening of a few film clips. These included the earliest shorts like Arrival of a Train and Leaving the Factory.  On a rainy day, several people living in colonial Bombay gathered to watch cinema for the first time in the country, screened by employees of the Lumière Brothers on the Cinèmatographe. The machine was advertised as the “Wonder of the World”.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz