Alam Ara

• Master Vithal: Adil
• Prithviraj Kapoor
• Jilloo
• Wazir Mohammed Khan
• Jagdish Sethi
• Elizer
• J. Sushila
• L. V. Prasad

Alam Ara (Hindi: आलम आरा Ālam ara; Urdu عالم آرا ) is an Indian film directed by Ardeshir Irani of 1931 He is regarded as India's first sound film and is in Hindi / Urdu..

Action

The story is about a royal family of the Kingdom of Kumarpur. There, the old king lives with his two wives and Dilbahar Navbahar that are constantly at war. The situation escalates when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will give birth to the heir of the king.

Dilbahar then tried in vain to forestall and to seduce the army chief Adil. You destroyed in revenge his family and leaves him in jail. His daughter, Alam Ara is banished and reared by nomads. This storm later the palace, reveal Dilbahars machinations, free and Adil Alam Ara marries the prince of the kingdom, in whom she had fallen in love.

Background

Alam Ara was produced by Irani's Imperial Movietone society under the guidance of the American sound engineer Wilford Deming and use of the imported from the West Tanar Sound system, though the picture and sound with a device chronicled, but in the mid- 1930s no longer find use in Indian film. The premiere of the film was in Esoofallys " Majestic Theatre " in Bombay and Alam Ara thus won on March 14, 1931, the race of the production companies around the first Indian sound film just ahead Madan Theatres ' Shirin Farhad large-scale production, but was commercially successful. Already this first sound film productions established the musical type of the Indian mainstream film with music, singing and dancing. The story is based on Joseph Davids same Parsi theater piece.

Under the direction of Nanubhai Vakil emerged with Alam Ara (1956) and Alam Ara (1973), two more of the same film adaptations of the play.

The film is lost.

Music

The film had seven vocal numbers from which Wazir Mohammed Khan khuda ke naam par Dede Pyare was particularly popular. The song used commenting choir; a technique has also been used frequently later. The actors sang itself, the playback system with external singers was not introduced until the mid-1930s.