Before the streaming and the YouTube we saw talkies in cinema halls. Before talkies there were silent movies. Before that there was the theater, which has been around since the ancient days. We've all heard of Kalidas who wrote plays and presumably his plays were staged. However, through all of this, actors always have had a bad reputation. This page from the book "The Indian Theatre" by C B Gupta, published in 1954; it is based on his dissertation.

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