April 18th, 2010

Indian Sound Feature Films 1971 – 1980

Total number of Indian talkie films produced in different languages from 1971-1980.

Language 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Arabic
Assamese 5 7 9 3 6 5 7 6 10 7
Avadhi
Badaga 1
Bengali 30 25 35 35 35 32 29 37 37 37
Bhojpuri 1 2 1 2 3
Bodo
Brij Bhasha
Chhatisghari 1
Coorgi 1
Dogri
English 1 3 1 1 2 3 2
Garwhali
German
Gujarati 2 4 5 7 12 29 30 32 38 34
Gujjar
Haryanvi 1 1
Hindi 115 131 137 132 119 106 134 116 113 143
Iranian
Kannada 33 20 32 30 38 45 49 54 59 68
Karbi
Kashmiri
Khasi
Kodava
Kok Borok
Konkani 1 1 1 1 1 2
Kumaoni
Magdhi
Maithili 1
Malayalam 53 47 60 54 77 84 91 123 130 99
Malvi
Manipuri 2 2 1 3
Marathi 23 12 14 11 17 10 19 15 19 28
Marwari
Nagamese
Nagpuri
Nepali 1 1
Nimadi
Oriya 1 1 2 2 3 6 11 15 10 15
Persian
Pushtu
Punjabi 2 3 5 4 5 10 12 7 15 6
Rajasthani 1
Sanskrit
Sindhi 1 1 1
Sinhalese
Tamil 74 77 66 79 70 81 66 105 139 144
Telugu 85 73 74 69 88 93 99 94 131 152
Thai 1
Tulu 2 2 4 2 2 2 3
Urdu
Total 431 410 447 432 471 507 555 612 707 739

Note:- This chart compiles official figures of censored films published annually by the Central Board of Film Certification. These figures could include several dubbed films, and usually number multilinguals as distinct and independent productions for each language.

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