Early newsreels were produced by Twentieth Century Fox India, but were criticised by the Ministry of Information and Film India for their failure to address the country's social issue and the developing war in Europe, and were not widely circulated.
Early newsreels were produced by Twentieth Century Fox India, and were largely reissued versions of British Movietone newsreels dubbed into Indian languages. These were criticised by the Ministry of Information and Film India for their failure to address the country's social issue and the developing war in Europe, and were not widely circulated.