 Since 1934, with the sole exception of 1952, India has been among the top three movie-producing countries in the world every single year.In the first, 1930 edition of his global survey "The Film Till Now", British cinema pundit Paul Rotha declared, "A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronised and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema.It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema."