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... some characters used masks and other make up their faces ... Fireworks were used ... published in German by Friedrich Rosen (1856-1935) in Leipzig which evoked considerable interest ... Khadim Husain Afsos's Inder Sabha (Agra, 1862) ...
- 1 2 3 James R. Brandon (28 January 1997), The Cambridge guide to Asian theatre, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-521-58822-5,
... The history of the theatre of modern Pakistan is the history of the Urdu-language theatre which started in 1853 with the composition of Mirza Amanat's Inder Sabha performed at the court of Wajid Ali Shah of Oudh ... for at least two generations after that, actors and musicians of Oudh sang the songs of Inder Sabha ...
- ↑ Friedrich Rosen. "Die Indarsabhā des Amānat : neuindisches Singspiel in lithographischem Originaltext." Leipzig: Brockhaus Verlag, 1892.
- 1 2 Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti (2008), Global Bollywood: travels of Hindi song and dance, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8166-4579-4,
... in early experimentations with the technology of sound, narration in films like Indrasabha (The Court of Indra, JJ Madan, 1932) ... It would therefore be gratuitous to say that Indrasabha had seventy-one songs ...
- ↑ Alison Arnold (1998), South Asia: the Indian subcontinent, Part 2, Taylor & Francis, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8240-4946-1,
... The court poet Agha Hasan ("Amanat") wrote this musical dance drama based on the love story of a fairy and a prince. The drama, entirely in verse, was picked up by Parsi theater companies in Bombay that produced Urdu plays in India ...
- ↑ Sayyid Mohammad Abdullah (1967), Urdū adab, Maktaba-e-khayaban-e-adab, 1967,
... اردو میں اس صنف کا احیا، اودھ کے تہزیبی دور میں ھوا. امانت نے اندر سبھا میں گیت کو رواج دیا ...
- 1 2 The Pakistan review, Volume 8, Ferozsons., 1960, 1960,
... Sharar is also opposed to the view that the first Urdu Drama namely Inder Sabha was composed by the order of ... Also, there is a good deal of evidence to show that Inder Sabha was written by Amanat at the behest of Wajid Ali Shah ...
- ↑ Patrick Robertson (1980), Movie facts and feats: a Guinness record book, Sterling Pub. Co., 1980, ISBN 978-0-8069-0204-3,
... The musical with the most song numbers was Madan Theatres' Indra Sabha (India 32), a Hindi movie with 72 songs. The Hollywood musical with the most songs was Columbia's The Jolson Story (US 46) which had 28 song sequences ...
- ↑ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema . British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851706696 . Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- Bhojpuri Filmon Ka Safarnama By Raviraj Patel ISBN 9351862038