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    Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film, directed by Ardeshir Irani and released in 1931. It was a major commercial success upon release, with large crowds forming to see the film. The film told a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl set in the fictional kingdom of Kumarpur. It featured songs in its soundtrack and was shot using the Tanar single-system camera, which recorded sound directly onto the film. Zubeida, one of the lead actresses, was a notable early Indian film star who came from a royal family and starred in many successful films in the 1920s and 1930s.

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    Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film, directed by Ardeshir Irani and released in 1931. It was a major commercial success upon release, with large crowds forming to see the film. The film told a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl set in the fictional kingdom of Kumarpur. It featured songs in its soundtrack and was shot using the Tanar single-system camera, which recorded sound directly onto the film. Zubeida, one of the lead actresses, was a notable early Indian film star who came from a royal family and starred in many successful films in the 1920s and 1930s.

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    Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film, directed by Ardeshir Irani and released in 1931. It was a major commercial success upon release, with large crowds forming to see the film. The film told a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl set in the fictional kingdom of Kumarpur. It featured songs in its soundtrack and was shot using the Tanar single-system camera, which recorded sound directly onto the film. Zubeida, one of the lead actresses, was a notable early Indian film star who came from a royal family and starred in many successful films in the 1920s and 1930s.

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    ALAM ARA

    Alam Ara (Hindi: , Urdu: , translation: The


    Light of the World) is a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani.
    It was the first Indian sound film.[1][2]
    Irani recognized the importance that sound would have on
    the cinema, and raced to complete Alam Ara before several
    contemporary sound films. Alam Ara debuted at the
    Majestic Cinema in Mumbai (then Bombay) on March 14,
    1931. The first Indian talkie was so popular that "police aid
    had to be summoned to control the crowds."[3]
    Synopsis

    Alam Ara still

    Newspaper advertisement for Alam Ara, 1931


    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
    centers 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.
    After the fire at National Film Archive of India, Pune, in
    2003, which destroyed the last surviving prints of several

    classics such as Raja Harishchandra and Achhut Kanya,


    this film is no longer available in its original format.[4]
    Production
    Ardeshir Irani handled the sound recording department,
    using the Tanar Sound System. It was shot with the Tanar
    single-system camera, which recorded sound directly onto
    the film. Since there were no soundproof studios available
    at the time, the shooting was done mostly at night, to avoid
    daytime noises, with microphones hidden near the actors.[5]
    Soundtrack

    Ardeshir Irani recording Alam Ara, 1931


    The film had music by Ferozshah M. Mistri and B. Irani,
    and had seven songs:

    De de khuda ke naam pe: Wazir Mohammed Khan


    Badla Dilwayega Ya Rabb: Zubeida[8]
    Rutha Hai Asman gum ho gaya mahatab: Jillu
    Teri Kaatil nigahon ne mara
    De dil ko aaram aye saki gulfam
    Bhar bhar ke jam pila ja sagar ke chalane bala
    Daras bina mare hai tarse naina pyare

    Zubeida
    Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (Urdu: ( ) 19881911) was
    an Indian film actress. She acted in the first Indian talkie
    movie Alam Ara (1931).[1] Her credits include early hits
    Devdas (1937), and Sagar Movietone's first talkie, Meri
    Jaan.

    Originally from Surat, she was the daughter of Fatma


    Begum. She became a notable film actress and India's first
    woman film director and was the sister of actressess
    Shahzadi and Sultana. In the presence of seasoned actors
    like Prithviraj Kapoor and Master Vithal, Zubeida
    blossomed and wowed everyone with her singing, dancing
    and her speech.
    Zubeida was one of Indian cinema's earliest superstars and
    among the few girls who entered films at a time when it
    wasn't considered an appropriate profession for girls from
    respectable families, let alone Royalty. Born in Surat,
    Zubeida was a stunningly beautiful princess, the daughter
    of the Nawab of Sachin and Fatima Begum. Zubeida and

    her two sisters, Sultana and Shehzadi, egged on by their


    actress mother who was to become India's first woman
    director, entered films at a very young age.
    Biography
    Zubeida was only 12 when she made her debut in
    Kohinoor. Through the 20s she made infrequent
    appearances on screen along with Sultana who by then
    had become one of Indian cinema's loveliest leading ladies.
    One of the films to star the two sisters was Kalyan Khajina
    in 1924. They had also shared the screen in Zubeida's first
    blockbuster, Veer Abhimanyu released two years earlier,
    that also had their mother, Fatima Begum playing an
    important role.
    In 1925 Zubeida had nine releases, amongst them Kala
    Chor, Devdasi and Desh Ka Dushman. A year later she
    starred in her mother's film, Bulbul-e-Parista. 1927 was
    memorable for her with movies Laila Majnu, Nanand Bhojai
    and Naval Gandhi's Sacrifice which were very successful
    movies at this time.
    The latter, based on Rabindranath Tagore's 'Balidaan', also
    starred Sulochana, Master Vithal and Jal Khambatta. It
    condemned the age-old custom of animal sacrifice in
    certain Kali temples in Bengal. The Members of the Indian
    Cinematograph Committee were wowed by this "excellent
    and truly Indian film". Its European members
    recommended that it be sent abroad for screening.

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