<P> Kisan Kanya (year 1937) was known as India's first colour film but did not start the colour era in Indian Cinema . Kisan Kanya was shot in Cinecolor . Colour era in Indian Cinema (Hindi and Tamil) started in the mid 1950s . </P> <P> Attempts to shoot the first Indian colour film failed when the negative for Sairhandri, directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, was ruined during processing in Germany . Prabhat Film Company's "Sairandhri" was the first talkie film produced in Multicolour in 1933 . However, its colour quality was not satisfactory and what could be seen was black and white . Kisan Kanya (lit: the peasant girl; 1937 / Dir: Moti B. Gidvani; prod . Ardeshir Irani; screenplay and dialogues: Saadat Hasan Manto) was arguably India's first colour film to be actually released . It used the Cinecolor process . This story about rural poverty and crime did not go down well with mass audiences, so colour films did not catch the public imagination--till Aan (1953). India was thus the sixth country to have produced a colour film; at most seventh, if firmer dates about the first Soviet colour film indicate otherwise . </P>

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