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Scope

The scope of this task force is to improve the quality and quantity of information on Misplaced Pages about Indian cinema, and raising the quality of already-existing articles.

Indian cinema may include domestic films, films made by Indian filmmakers abroad, films produced or co-produced by Indian companies, and foreign films shooting in India. However per Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Film#Scope, this task force should not include articles about actors, directors and filmmakers. Those articles are covered by adding parameters for the Actors and Filmmakers and Screenwriters projects accordingly.

A category tree can be found here.

Participants

Tagging and assessment

Indian cinema task force assessment statistics Indian cinema articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 8 4 9 5 26 FL 1 10 18 72 6 107 A 1 1 GA 4 22 64 98 5 1 194 B 5 14 21 107 17 8 172 C 1 27 148 1,166 334 105 1,781 Start 2 48 344 10,744 1 2,804 898 14,841 Stub 6 94 9,049 605 281 10,035 List 1 180 338 1,335 232 51 2,137 Category 1,148 31 1,179 Disambig 70 6 76 File 60 97 157 Portal 36 36 Project 21 21 Redirect 3 9 373 511 97 993 Template 395 7 402 NA 2 2 Other 20 20 Assessed 22 315 1,045 22,949 2,262 4,243 1,344 32,180 Unassessed 3 3 Total 22 315 1,045 22,949 2,262 4,246 1,344 32,183 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 142,553 Ω = 5.27 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding both parameters to the project banners at the top of its talk page:

• |Indian-task-force=yes (or "Indian=yes") to {{WikiProject Film}}.
• |cinema=yes to {{WikiProject India}}.

This will automatically place it into Category:Indian cinema task force articles.

To-do

Cleanup needed

Bot-generated cleanup listing • Hindi films and plagiarism • Ramoji Film City • IIFA Awards • IIFA • Anand Bakshi • Ajay Devgan • N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

Requested articles

List of missing Indian Films (see also lists of Indian films for redlinks) • Beary Cinema

Expansion needed

Draft articles: Tulu cinema • Anahat (film) • Prakash Jha • Central Board of Film Certification • Filmfare Awards South • Kerala Film Critics Association Awards • Amitabh Bachchan • Gabbar Singh • Sanjay Dutt • Hindustan Photo Films • Sanskrit cinema

Citations needed

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• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Merge the information in the task force notebook into the Announcements template above.
• Add things here!

Templates

• For main project templates, see the sidebar.
• Userbox: {{User Indian cinema task force}}
• Stub tag: {{India-film-stub}}; {{Bengali-film-stub}}; {{Bhojpuri-film-stub}} ;{{Hindi-film-stub}}; {{Kannada-film-stub}}; {{Malayalam-film-stub}}; {{Marathi-film-stub}}; {{Tamil-film-stub}}; {{Telugu-film-stub}}; further see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject India/Stub templates#Film stubs
• Footers: {{Cinema of West Bengal}} ((Tollywood(Bangla)); {{Bollywood films}}; {{Tamil cinema}}; {{Tollywood films}}; {{Cinema of Karnataka}}; {{Malayalam films}}; {{Marathi films}}

Cinema of India notice

Place this template {{CinemaofIndia}}, at the bottom of core articles or categories about the Indian film industry. Please, do not transclude this template in Indian film and actor articles as it can be too generic, but only those articles/categories appearing in the template itself. Employ this template judiciously and not indiscriminately; if an article isstub-class with little content or if another template is already included, consider whether the addition of {{CinemaofIndia}} will improve and enhance the article. It will produce:

v t e Cinema of India
Industries	Assamese Badaga Bengali Bhojpuri Bihari Bodo Chhattisgarhi Deccani Dogri English Gujarati Haryanvi Hindi Jharkhand Kannada Kashmiri Khasi Khortha Kokborok Konkani Kutchi Malayalam Manipur Marathi Meitei Nagpuri Odia Punjabi Rajasthani Sambalpuri Sanskrit Santali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Tulu
Other topics	International Film Festival of India Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film Winners and nominees of the Academy Awards Winners and nominees of the Golden Globe Awards Winners and nominees of the British Academy Film Awards Winners and nominees at the Cannes Film Festival Most expensive films List of Indian film series Science fiction films in India Horror films ghost films Hindi Malayalam Highest-grossing films Highest-grossing South Indian films

Awards

The Bollywood Star is awarded to Wikipedians with great contribution to articles related to Bollywood. To award this barnstar to an editor, paste the following code on their talk-page and include a general message about their contributions to any article or area ofIndian cinema:

{{subst:Indian Cinema Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

The South Indian Cinema Award is awarded to Wikipedians who tirelessly foster or contribute to the improvement of articles relating toIndian cinema, particularly South Indian cinema and its music. To award this barnstar to an editor, paste the following code on their talk-page and include a general message about their contributions to any article or area of Misplaced Pages that deals with South Indian cinema:

{{subst:South Indian Cinema Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

Both awards are listed on WP:WPPA under WikiProject Awards.

General guidelines

Films

Indian film articles often lack conciseness. This is due sometimes to the over-enthusiasm of editors for the subject matter. It should be understood that such articles are intended to convey straightforward information about films to readers. The plot synopsis should observe a limit of 400-700 words, and it should include a full overview of the plot including the ending. The basic structure of a film article should follow the Manual of Style for films. Articles on films should include a lead paragraph, infobox, and synopsis. See Lage Raho Munna Bhai for an example of a featured Indian film article.

Please do not add hyperbole or subjective phrasing to describe films. Describing films as "super hit", "failure", "flop", or "declared as all-time blockbuster status" should be avoided at all costs. We are not here to gush over films or to mock them, we're here to present a neutral, academic overview. See WP:PEACOCK and our policy on neutral point of view.

Mundane marketing techniques like television and public appearances, the release of first look posters, teasers and trailers are not noteworthy. See WP:TRAILER for guidance.

Please be circumspect when writing about film financials, as all Indian film financial details are based on trade estimates and should not be taken as gospel. There is significant corruption surrounding these financial details and figures are often inflated and deflated by producers and competitors for various reasons of self-interest. Times of India briefly discontinued their box office coverage for this reason. Keep in mind that an estimate that is a few hours more recent isn't necessarily more accurate, higher numbers aren't necessarily more accurate, and when in doubt, presenting a range is always an option. (Ex: "gross = ₹30–40 million") Related, please stay focused on the big picture--we aren't here to track every aspect of a film's finances, only the most important broad strokes, which typically means budget and gross box office figures. Presenting information about nett gross, nett, and distributor share tend to clutter articles and make film finances difficult to compare to other films. Information about satellite and music rights sales, as well as tangential revenue streams, are not typically noteworthy. See this discussion.

Monetary conversion templates such as INRConvert should not generally be used in list type articles or infoboxes per this consensus and this discussion. The prevailing attitude was: 1) Converting to US dollars is arbitrary. 2) Default conversion templates create problems with inflation, Ex: where the gross from a 2008 film is converted to the present year's US$ rate. 3) The inflation adjustment option in the template results in infobox clutter.

Biographies

Articles on Indian actors and directors should be understood to fall primarily under the control of WikiProject Biography guidelines. More specific guidance can be found at the Actors and Filmmakers workgroup. Articles about living people must strictly adhere to the BLP policy. Biography articles fall into a standard pattern of a lead paragraph, followed by sections dedicated to background, career, personal life, awards, filmography, external links, and references. See Satyajit Ray for an example of a featured article about an Indian film director.

Articles on Indian musicians generally consist of the following sections: lead paragraph, background, career, awards, partial discography, external links and references.

Note also that biographies of living people must be impeccably sourced. Any contentious or potentially contentious information needs to be attributed to a reliable mainstream published source with an established reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. And with identity theft a major modern concern, personal information like birth names and birth dates need to be reliably sourced as well, as publishing this information based on personal knowledge, public records, etc., could potentially violate the subject's privacy. See WP:BLPPRIVACY.

Filmographies, discographies, and awards

If applicable, a comprehensive filmography, discography, or awards listing can be split off to a new article. These pages are expected to link into one another upon creation.

Images

It should be noted that Misplaced Pages's rules on Image uploads are extremely strict, and all uploads must be accompanied by a comprehensive fair-use rationale. Help:Image is a good guideline that explains the process of uploading images and what needs to be completed.

Copyrighted images of actors, actresses and directors from websites all over the Internet are disallowed and will be deleted. An easy rule-of-thumb to remember is: "If you don't know where it comes from, don't upload it."

Several editors have worked hard to make sure that all pictures used are acceptable for Misplaced Pages. One such strategy is to search for images of living people on an image-sharing site such as Flickr, where only images released under a Creative Commons 2.0 license are acceptable. In other words, the image must be released under a license that allows sharing and remixing of the work.

External links

External links should follow the Misplaced Pages guideline on external links. Official websites of films or film actors are preferred over non-official websites. Fansites are often of low quality and feature commercial links. There are many sites for popular actors and linking to one makes it fair to link to all. Therefore a consensus is emerging that only links to the actor's official site and IMDB article are allowable, as well as content on reputable sites (BBC news interviews, etc.).

List of films

A list of feature films released in a particular year is separately maintained for each language. Do not add dubbed versions in these pages as the list is intended for original productions only. Mentioning notable deaths and award ceremonies should be avoided which instead may be added in the in film article. Web series / television series debuts are also excluded in the list of films article. A seperated article for series meeting the WP:NLIST criteria may be created for this purpose. See this discussion.

Guidelines on sources

• WP:ICTFSOURCES

• IMDb has a search function for Indian films but it's considered a questionable source by the greater Film WikiProject. See WP:Citing IMDb.
• Per this discussion, all box office gross values such as |gross= should use the {{Estimation}} template.
• Per this discussion, a number of reliable sources (largely newspapers) were listed:

• The Hindu by The Hindu Group
• The Times of India by The Times Group
  • Note that the rest of the encyclopedia considers Times of India to have a reliability between no consensus and generally unreliable. See WP:RSP.
  • Do not use Times of India bio pages for details like birthdate as many of them were found to be inaccurate.
• Daily News and Analysis by Diligent Media Corporation
• The Indian Express by Indian Express Group
• The Telegraph (Calcutta) by ABP Group
• Hindustan Times by HT Media
• Mint (newspaper) by HT Media
• The Hindu Business Line by The Hindu Group
• Mumbai Mirror by The Times Group;
• Outlook (Indian magazine) by Outlook Publishing India;
• India Today by Living Media;
• Indiatimes by The Times Group;
• Rediff.com;
• Sify;
• Bollywood Hungama by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment;
• Box Office India (also discussed here) - Note that film budget figures at BoxOfficeIndia.com include print and advertising costs, so we should note that if we can't find a better source. Ex: {{small|Note: figure contains print and advertising costs}}
• CNN-IBN's IBN Live;
• NDTV;
• Zee News owned by Essel Group & Zee Entertainment Enterprises
• International Business Times by IBT Media – Note that the rest of the encyclopedia does not consider IBT to be reliable. See WP:RSP.
• The Economic Times by The Times Group
• The Express Tribune by Lakson Group
• Mid Day
• Dinakaran by Sun Group
• Dina Thanthi
• Business Today (business magazine) by Living Media
• Business Standard
• Filmfare
• Screen (magazine)
• The Tribune
• The Statesman
• Deccan Chronicle
• All publications by Magna Publications
• Deccan Herald
• The Financial Express
• The News Minute

• The following should not be considered reliable sources:

• Any "blog" of "blog"-type websites, in particular

• Koimoi
• Oneindia.in
• Andhra Cafe
• Andhrakaburlu.com
• Upperstall.com
• Cinegoer.com
• Kollytalk.com
• *.allindiansite.com
• Nowrunning.com
• Indiglamour.com
• Radio Sargam
• KeralaDaily
• Andhra Box Office
• Greatandhra.com

• Cinechicken (discussed here)
• Sahi Nahi (discussed here)
• TheReviewMonk (discussed here)
• Tellychakkar.com (discussed here)
• Tellytadka.com
• Bollyspice.com
• nettv4u.com
• Assamtimes.org (discussed here)
• Iwmbuzz.com (discussed here)
• Televisionpost.com
• Dreamdth.com
• Pinkvilla.com
• Bollywoodlife.com (discussed here)
• Tellydhamaal.com
• Dailyhunt.in (blacklisted, discussed here)
• Bestoftheyear.in ( see bestoftheyear.in)
• Bollymoviereviewz.com
• Indiaforums.com
• auditionform.in
• serialupdates.me
• dailymovieupdates.com
• Bollywoodbubble.com
• streamingdue.com
• spicyonion.com
• Film Companion.in - blacklisted due to spamming, see

Dadasaheb Phalke Award copycats

• WP:DADASAHEB
• WP:PHALKE

Named after a legendary Indian filmmaker, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award is a sub-award of the Indian government's National Film Awards. It is essentially a lifetime achievement award honouring a person's "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema". This is a coveted award for filmmakers, and there is only one award issued each year. To capitalise on the Phalke name, some small organisations have adopted their own Dadasaheb Phalke awards, and when media outlets don't ask questions and just reprint press releases, we often see the "Dadasaheb Phalke" award erroneously attributed to actors/directors/composers and others who might not deserve the national prize. Some news organisations fail to make this distinction. Examples:

• In 2016, Mid-Day reported that Sooraj Pancholi won a best debut award at a Dadasaheb Phalke award organised by 90bids.com.
• In 2018, Times of India reported that 34-year-old Ranvir Singh was going to win the Dadasaheb Phalke award, when what he was presented with was the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award, an award issued by some other institution.
• In 2019, TimesNowNews, who in this slideshow included a write-up of how the Phalke award is "India's highest honour in the entertainment sector", apparently did not notice that the event was an award handout for a two-year-old film festival named after Phalke, not for the actual national award.
• In 2019, ABPLive.in ran a headline here that a Bigg Boss 12 contestant was being given the award for "Best Entertainer – Reality Show".
• In 2019, International Business Times reported "Ram Charan's wife Upasana Konidela has been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the Philanthropist of the Year ... India's highest award in cinema presented at the National Film Awards ceremony." Clearly this is not the same award. Times of India this time clarifies Charan's award as the "Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award".
• By 2020, ABPLive.in still hadn't figured out what this award is, writing here about the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards, "Presented annually at the 'National Film Awards' ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the 'Dadasaheb Phalke Award' is our country’s highest civilian award in the field of entertainment."
• In 2021, The Hindu's Businessline reported that Dhanush won "prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award (South)" for Best Actor. Gulf News said "South Indian stars Dhanush, Mohanlal win Dadasaheb Phalke Awards". Free Press Journal wrote "Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2020 ... The award honoured the individuals from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada film industries for their outstanding contribution towards the growth and development of cinema." None of these sources mention explicitly that this is related to the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF), which it apparently is, and Free Press Journal really makes it sound like the winners are taking home that government prize, in part because they're using virtually the same phrasing found at India's Directorate of Film Festivals.

So when adding this award to articles, we must be double, even triple-certain that we are talking about the actual National Film Awards' Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Some clues: A film can't win this award; a person wins the award. Winners are typically older, because to make "outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema", you have to work hard for many years, not just be young, handsome, or pretty. You don't win the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Philanthropy or for Most Popular Actor or Extraordinary Work to Reform the Society via a Movie or "for the song 'God Your Lady' in the film Vishwadi" or Most Iconic Jodi. You win it plainly, with no classifications. There is only one, and they worked hard to get it.

Some similar-sounding awards that are not the real award:

• Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards – see this TOI article
• Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards – see official website
  • Dadasaheb Phalke Awards South – launching in 2019
  • Dadasaheb Phalke Icon Award - Possibly related to the International Film Festival Awards?
• Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival Awards – see official website
• Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award – see example
• Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards – see Facebook page
• Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festial Awards South - see example
• Legends Dadasaheb Phalke Award - see example
• Dadasaheb Phalke icon Awards film - see example

See also this Hindustan Times article describing the confusion about these knock-off awards.

Annotated bibliography

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• WikiProject Film
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