 By February of that year, production was apparently completed on a sound version of "The Devil's Playground", arguably qualifying it as the first Australian talking motion picture; however, the May press screening of Commonwealth Film Contest prizewinner "Fellers" is the first verifiable public exhibition of an Australian talkie.In September 1930, a song performed by Indian star Sulochana, excerpted from the silent feature "Madhuri" (1928), was released as a synchronized-sound short, the country's first.The following year, Ardeshir Irani directed the first Indian talking feature, the Hindi-Urdu "Alam Ara", and produced "Kalidas", primarily in Tamil with some Telugu.