 Baburao was not particularly keen on the talkies for he believed that they would destroy the visual culture so painfully evolved over the years.As cinema grew in Union of India, major production houses rose and one of them was again a company owned wholly by Maharashtrians, the Prabhat Film Company.Prabhat's "Sant Tukaram" was the first Indian work to win the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival in 1937.