Does anyone know? Tried to search it on our website but couldn’t find an answer. Would be a good trivia question for us all. If anyone knows which film, which company and what year it had released it would be great

A post on this thread reveals that Super Digital's KOYLA was the first DVD to be released of an Indian movie.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4116

In 2003, Arsh/ Zoran/ UL mentioned that Koyla was the first Hindi DVD. Somehow, I missed that topic in those days. It'll be great to get one more confirmation from Sunny Saharan Audit. Recall, present zulm.net is from 2001 and before that it was on, for 1-3 yrs with another host website (shows up as old site at top of zulm.net page). And before that there was a DVD Forum that was the solo source for 1-3 yrs, run exclusively by Saharan Sunny Audit. He sure will have a good idea, which was the first Hindi DVD. I suspect, one of the EROS-DEI titles ??

Later on, as zulm.net (old site) started, Saharan Sunny Audit himself asked his website followers to join zulm.net, and he himself started contributing to zulm.net, his indiandvdforum site closed.
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Assuming, Koyla was the first Hindi DVD out, or a competitor film around same time, one can estimate when Indian DVDs started coming out. Koyla was theatrically released on April 7, 1997, so expect its DVD not before 1998. And, by year 2000, there were tons Hindi DVDs out in the market. So, my guess will be sometime 1998, first Hindi DVDs started coming out.
(See my Next Post for more definitive info, including correction)
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Another fact that I know for sure about Hindi DVDs: First Hindi Anamorphic (and also Progressive) DVD was supposed to be DEI Kaho Na Pyar Hai but because of some delay, two other DEI (anoamorphic-Progressive) DVDs came out a week or 10 days before KNPH. They were KRODH and JUNG I have a printout printed on April 7, 2000 stating KRODH:- The First Indian DVD Ever To Have An Anamorphic Transfer
website was: http://www.stas.net/indiandvd/krodh.htn (perhaps html of which not full text fitted on te printout)

The same page also stated:
Originally Kaho Na Pyar Hai (2000) was to be the first anamorphic DVD for an Indian film, but this is still under development, so DEI decided to give that trophy to this film (KRODH).

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First feature film on DVD was TWISTER, released on 25th March 1997.
https://pubquizammo.wordpress.com/2009/ ... s-twister/
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Search Results Did Not Go far enough (missed by a few months), but this post (some excerpts retyped here from a printed page) gives out a good idea of First Hindi DVD Release Time:



Assuming Video Sound (Super Digital) titles came out in 1997 as Sunnyaudit said, it has to be VS-SD title that came out first as DEI-EROS collaboration years were 1998-99.
So, Koyla DVD date has to be between April 7 1997 to Dec 1997. and it's ahead of DEI-EROS DVDs.

Absolutely ! Right answer, Koyla SD and I got one of the first copy of trial disc. And then 1080P was DTPH and I got the trial disc on that too.

Actually, hats should go off to rana ji. His knowledge and resourcefulness is, and will always be unparalleled.

Thank you Rana ji this means a lot!

BTW, First Hollywood DVD was:

Rana saab, were there any double sided Hindi DVDs released? I have a couple of Hollywood 'flippers', but don't recall seeing any Hindi films (but I did start buying DVDs around 2000-2001).

I still have a few old DEI releases that were flippers disks. One Border and the other being Major Saab. I think they released them single sided later