Who is alam ara

Password recovery. Recover your password. Friday, November 12, Forgot your password? Get help. Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film made in directed by Ardeshir Irani. Before its release, India produced only silent films starting with Raja Harishchandra in , themed around mythology.

Irani risked it all to pick a popular play. It was also his conviction that he chose a mix of Hindi and Urdu in Alam Ara to ensure it reaches a wider audience. Its basic plot revolved around the love story between a prince Adil Jahangir Khan and a gypsy girl Alamara.

Actors Master Vithal and Zubeida played the central parts. Yes, the prince here, the leading man of Alam Ara, was mute! A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Read all A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir.

Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce the army chief Adil Vithal and vengefully destroy Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce the army chief Adil Vithal and vengefully destroys his family, leaving his daughter Alam Ara Zubeida to be raised by nomads.

Read all. Updates approximately every 20 minutes. Sign In. Original title: Alam Ara. Drama Fantasy. Director Ardeshir Irani. Joseph David play Ardeshir Irani. Master Vithal Zubeida Jillo. Top credits Director Ardeshir Irani. The story revolves around the King of Kumarpur and his two wives, Dilbahar and Navbahar, both childless. A fakir predicts that Navbahar will give birth to a son, which gets Dilbahar all worked up.

She has designs on army chief Adil, but he spurns her. So Dilbahar has him imprisoned and his pregnant wife banished. There she sees the handsome young prince and the two fall in love. Irani kept his project a secret. He picked up the basics of sound recording from an American expert, Wilford Deming, who had come in to assemble the Tanar recording equipment for Imperial at the astronomical sum of Rs a day.

Filming was done mostly between 1 am and 4 am in the night as the studio was close to the railway tracks and the noise of the trains was unavoidable during the day.