Colour Television Arrives in India

1982

Doordarshan begins broadcasting in colour on Indian television. This, followed swiftly by more developments in entertainment and telecommunications over the next few decades, has a strong impact on all forms of traditional performance, such as storytelling, puppetry and folk theatre, and forms a base for video art in India. The mass consumption of Technicolor moving images lays the groundwork for television becoming the main medium of cultural dissemination second only to the cinema hall.

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