Alam Ara (आलम आरा) 1931

Published on November 7, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	Imperial Movietone
Director	Ardeshir Irani
Writer	Joseph David, Munshi Zaheer (Urdu)
Producer	Imperial Movietone
Orginal music	Ferozshah M. Mistri, B. Irani
Cinematography	Wilford Deming, Adi M. Irani
Film Editing	Ezra Mir
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Playback Singers	Zubeida, Wazir Mohammed Khan

Character	Actor / Actress
Adil	Master Vithal
Alam Ara	Zubeida
	Jillo
(as Sushila)	J. Sushila
	Prithviraj Kapoor
	Elizer
	Wazir Mohammed Khan
	Jagdish Sethi
	L. V. Prasad

The film is a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl, based on a Parsi play written by Joseph David. David later served as a writer at Irani's film company. The story centres on an imaginary, historical royal family in the kingdom of Kumarpur. The main characters are the king and his two warring wives Dilbahar and Navbahar. Their rivalry escalates when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar, in revenge, attempts to have an affair with the kingdom's chief minister Adil. The affair goes sour and a vengeful Dilbahar imprisons him and exiles his daughter, Alam Ara (Zubeida). In exile, Alam Ara is brought up by Gypsies. Upon returning to the palace at Kumarpur, Alam Ara meets and falls in love with the charming young prince (Master Vithal). In the end, Adil is released, Dilbahar is punished and the lovers marry.