Also known as Save Dada, Bhatvadekar was a portrait photographer and a rapt audience-member at the Lumiere shows. He is credited with being the first Indian to import a motion picture camera.

In 1897 -
- filmed a wrestling match at the Hanging Gardens, Bombay.
- filmed a short of the playfulness of monkeys.

He held his film shows in tents.

In 1901 - filmed the return of Ragunath P. Paranjpye, who had secured a distinction in mathematics from Cambridge University. Save Dada exhibited this as a newsreel.

In 1903 - filmed the durbar organized on the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII.
Lord Curzon organized this splendid pageant and later partitioned Bengal, resulting in wide-spread agitations. [This episode of history was recorded by Jyotish Sarcar.]

SOURCE

So Many Cinemas.
Author - B.D. Garga
Publishers - Eminence Designs Private Limited.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema.
Author -Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen
Publishers -Oxford University Press.

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