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	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alam Ara (played by Zubeida) is brought up among gypsies, but a chance visit to the palace allows cupid to strike as the young prince (Master Vithal) falls in love with her.
		The film had taken months to complete (as opposed to the normal one month period required to finish a silent film) because of the technical difficulties of recording sound and also because of the secrecy with which the project was surrounded.
		As a film Alam Ara had few technical or artistic qualities, but as a pioneering venture its centrality is undeniable.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/caalamara.htm (907 words)

	First Indian talkie 'Alam Ara' turns 75
		Mumbai, March 11 (IANS) Seventy-five years after "Alam Ara", the first Indian talkie, ushered in an entertainment revolution in the country, the Indian film industry has grown in volume and is riding on a technology wave.
		"Alam Ara", which literally means Light of The World, was produced by Ardeshir Irani under the banner of Imperial Film Company of Mumbai, then Bombay.
		Caste and class based fl and white "socials" of the 1930s, 40s and 50s gave way to glamour, colour and generous doses of romance by the 1960s and then to a period of tumult and anger in the 1970s.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?it=6010 (642 words)

	Talkies
		'Alam Ara' came at a time when its predecessor, the silent film, was at the zenith of its popularity.
		'Alam Ara' was just the first among 24 Hindustani 'talkie'films to mount the silver screen in 1931 as against 207 silent movies released that year.
		'Alam Ara' brought the sound of music to the screen as Wazir Mohammed Khan becomes an March 14 1931, India's first exponent of the film song with 'De de Khuda ke naam pe pyare taaqat ho gar dene ki/Kuchch chahe agar to maang le mujse himmat ho gar lene ki'.
	members.tripod.com /pbhooshan/talkies.htm (608 words)

	ALAM ARA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As a film, Alam Ara had few technical and artistic qualities but it was pioneering effort.
		Alam Ara's rather predicatable story line managed to string together the numerous song and dance numbers.
		Producers enticed actors from the stage as voice was the chief criterion and not all actors of the silent era could adapt to sound.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/madhuri/alamara.htm (1832 words)

	Pre Independence Period
		On that day Alam Ara, the first full length locally-produced talkie film, was released at the Majestic Cinema, in Bombay.
		Though it was another five years before the era of silent films ended, the song, as a new element in the cinema of the subcontinent, had come to stay.
		Alam Ara was closely followed by yet another talkie, Shirin Farhad, produced by Madan Theatres of Calcutta.
	members.tripod.com /pakistani_films/pre_independence_period.htm (1638 words)

	What a wonderful world! : Bollywood Classics - 1930s and 40s, tilakrishi blogs on sulekha, Movies blogs, tilakrishi ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since the release of the first 'talkie', Alam Ara, Bollywood has produced the largest number of films in the world, including great classics that compare with the greatest in the world.
		Alam Ara (Ardeshir Irani, 1931): The first Indian 'talkie', a period fantasy starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Master Vithal and Zubeda.
		Alam Ara will always be remembered as the film that ushered in the era of sound films in India.
	www.sulekha.com /blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=43336 (2806 words)

	'Alam Ara' set off Bollywood's musical odyssey
		Mumbai, March 12 (IANS) "Alam Ara", the first Indian talkie that completes 75 years this week, was the harbinger of a new art form - film music.
		The popularity of "Alam Ara's" songs led moviemakers to drastically increase the number of songs in their movies - the 1932 film "Indrasabha" had a staggering 71 songs.
		The biggest thrust to film music came a year after "Alam Ara", with the debut in 1934 of perhaps the biggest figure in film music history - Kundan Lal Saigal (1904-1947) - with a movie for the Calcutta-based New Theatres.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?it=6021 (773 words)

	Lost in time: Alam Ara is 75 today but NFAI has no print
		India’s first talkie Alam Ara was released and a new era was born.
		Alam Ara is a revolutionary film in many ways.
		So, even as Alam Ara celebrates its 75th birthday, the search for the precious print goes on in the nation and beyond.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=173720 (612 words)

	75 years of song & dance - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The year was 1931, the film was Alam Ara opening on March 14 in the Majestic cinema house in Bombay and three months later in the Elgin in Bangalore, the only cinema house built in the year Lumiere Brothers brought cinema to India in 1896.
		Alam Ara based on a successful Parsi theatre play written by Joseph David was a typical raja-rani story.
		Alam Ara triggered off the opening of studios in Calcutta serving Bengali, and Madras serving all the South Indian languages.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun252006/sundayherald104932006623.asp (1146 words)

	Moneycontrol India > News > > > >
		'Alam Ara', is India's first talkie film made in 1931, and it turns 75 today.
		It was filmed in studios mostly in the night to a capturing the noise of the day, 'Alam Ara' was made using microphones that had to be hidden out of the camera's range.
		While on the one hand 'Alam Ara' is credited to have ushered in the new talkie era in Indian cinema, it is also the movie that rang the death knell for silent films.
	news.moneycontrol.com /india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?autono=206139 (671 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		Mumbai: Seventy-five years after “Alam Ara”, the first Indian talkie, ushered in an entertainment revolution in the country, the Indian film industry has grown in volume and is riding on a technology wave.
		I was already into acting by the time,” said veteran theatre and cine actor A K Hangal, most memorable for his role as the blind muezzin in Sholay (1976).
		Although by 1920 there was a regular industry bringing out films — starting with 27 films a year — by the time “Alam Ara” was released in 1931 there were more than 200 films being released every year.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=March2006&file=World_News2006031214818.xml (349 words)

	SmashAwards.com
		Alam Ara (1931) was the genesis of the talkie feature films.
		The film's popular Hindustani dialogues and seven songs made it a big hit which resulted in other filmmakers to raise the number of songs in their films till it reached a whooping 71 in "Indrasabha".
		The first Indian talkie Alam Ara produced by the Imperial film company and directed by Ardershir Irani was released on March 14, 1931 at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay; the talkie had brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry.
	www.smashawards.com /index.cfm?Page=CinemaHistory (291 words)

	Bollywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 1930s, the industry was producing over 200 films per annum.
		The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931), was a super hit.
		There was clearly a huge market for talkies and musicals; Bollywood and all the regional film industries quickly switched to sound filming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bollywood (3452 words)

	Jahan Ara Mp3 Songs Music Review Indian Movies
		With Alam Ara's phenomenon success other 'All Talking All Singing All Dancing' productions were hurriedly put into production.
		Alam Ara was followed by Jamai Sashti, the first Bengali Talkie and then by Shirin Farhad featuring the most popular singing pair of the Urdu Stage - Jahan Ara Kajjan and Master Nissar.
		Recorded on RCA photophone sound system, the film was not only technically superior to Alam Ara but also contained three times as many songs.
	www.mag4you.com /music/j/jahan-ara.asp?bhjs=0 (163 words)

	Naachgaana.com » Very well summed up - 75 years of cinema .
		Alam Ara, India’s first talkie made by Ardeshir M. Irani, exhibitor—turned-filmmaker under the banner of Imperial Movietone, was released on March 14, 1931 at Majestic cinema in Bombay.
		Mehar gives birth to a daughter who is named Alam Ara and dies after telling a shikari everything about her husband.
		On the other end, when Alam Ara comes to know from the shikari about the agony of her innocent father, she vows to secure his release from the jail.
	www.naachgaana.com /index.php?itemid=2085 (2789 words)

	The Culture-specific use of sound in india cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Bombay producer who made the first talking feature, Alam Ara in the Hindi language was Ardeshir M Irani.
		Alam Ara has never been described as an artistic triumph and no one seems to have preserved even a fragment of it.
		Alam Ara was made on the Tanar single system camera, recording image and sound simultaneously, which was difficult especially for the songs which were the film's highlights.
	www.filmsound.org /india (9213 words)

	Down Melody Lane..::..Silent Era.::.Ardeshir Irani
		Ardeshir Irani became the father of talkie films with the release of Alam Ara on 14 th March, 1931.
		He produced Kalidas in Tamil on the sets of Alam Ara with songs in Telugu.
		Irani went to London alongwith Bharucha to learn sound recording for 15 days and recorded sounds and voice for Alam Ara on the basis of this knowledge.
	www.downmelodylane.com /irani.html (385 words)

	India's first talkie Alam Ara turns 75 : bollywood, alamara, movie : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		TALKIE TELL: Alam Ara was first premiered in 1931.
		The unavailability of even a single print of Alam Ara sheds much light on the urgent attention that needs to be paid to the restoration of Indian classics.
		Its a realy pathetic situation when our movie culture is compared to dat of the rest of d wrld.
	www.ibnlive.com /article.php?id=6795§ion_id=8 (238 words)

	Down Melody Lane..::..Down The years..::..1931
		Vitthal was the hero of the first talkie film Alam Ara.
		With the release of Alam Ara, talkie films came into existence.
		W M Khan played a begger in Alam Ara and he got the chance of being the first film song singer of Indian cinema.
	www.downmelodylane.com /dty1931.html (288 words)

	The Bollywood Blog: First Indian talkie 'Alam Ara' turns 75 ...
		The Bollywood Blog: First Indian talkie 'Alam Ara' turns 75...
		Mumbai, (IANS) Seventy-five years after "Alam Ara", the first Indian talkie, ushered in an entertainment revolution in the country, the Indian film industry has grown in volume and is riding on a technology wave.
		Story: 'Alam Ara' set off Bollywood's musical odyssey...
	www.bollywood.com /archives/2006/03/first_indian_ta.html (756 words)

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		3 ALAM ARA CASE: FSL TESTS DETECT HUMAN TISSUES [S:21-JUN-97] --------------------------------------------- Forensic analysis of the soil samples taken from beneath the flooring of quarter number 73 of the Old MLA's Hostel campus by a CBI team earlier this year has yielded traces of necrotic human tissue.
		While the FSL has not been able to conclusively say that the human tissue present in the samples had belonged to Alam Ara, wife of the State Irrigation Minister, Mr Abdul Muhib Mazumdar, they were convinced that they would be able to carry out a DNA fingerprinting on the tissue available with them.
		Alam Ara had gone missing over a decade ago under mysterious circumstances.
	www.cs.uccs.edu /~kalita/assam/news/1997/1997-06-23.html (1286 words)

	oudh17
		Nawab Bazm Ara Begum Sahiba, daughter of his paternal uncle, Prince Qara Shapur Jah, Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Bahadur [Chotey Mirza].
		October 1851, Nawab Musarat Ara Begum Sahiba, daughter of Madar ud-Daula, Nawab Sayyid 'Ali Naqi Khan Bahadur, Suhrab Jang, sometime Chief Minister of Oudh, by his wife, Gowhar Ara Begum Sahiba (d.
		i) Nawab Alam Ara Begum Sahiba [Mahdi Begum].
	4dw.net /royalark/India4/oudh17.htm (1631 words)

	From Alam Ara to Aankhen, he has them all- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From Alam Ara to Aankhen, he has them all
		HYDERABAD: From the first talkie film Alam Ara to recently released Aankhen, the audio cassettes and LPs and EPs of more than 4,000 films are available under one roof.
		For the owner of this collection, Saleem-ul-Haque, music is a passion, which he has nurtured since his school days.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=16407636 (249 words)

	First Indian Talkie completes 75 years : Happenings News : ApunKaChoice.Com
		It was on March 14, 1931, Imperial Movietone released 'Alam Ara', the first full-length Indian talkie film at Majestic cinema in Mumbai (then Bombay), but on Tuesday when it completed 75 years, there was not a single programme in Bollywood to mark the historic occasion.
		‘Alam Ara’, directed by Ardeshir Irani, laid a milestone that marked the stepping into the new talkie era.
		The cast of 'Alam Ara' comprised Master Vithal, Miss Zubeida and Prithviraj Kapoor (in picture) among others.
	www.apunkachoice.com /happenings/20060316-0.html (477 words)

	Screen The Business Of Entertainment-Films-Special Feature
		Released on March 14, 1931, at Bombay’s Majestic Cinema, Alam Ara rewrote history.
		The film was advertised thus: ‘All living, Breathing 100 per cent talking peak drama, Essence of romance, Brains and Talents unheard of under one banner - Imperial Movietone’.
		Alam Ara also saw the first ever film singer in WM Khan and the first hit number ‘De de khuda ke naam pe...’, which became a big favourite with beggars, among the ten odd songs.
	www.screenindia.com /20011221/fspe.html (2326 words)

	The Hindi Film Song
		Thus when the first Indian Talkie Alam Ara was made, it inherited a river of music that had flowed through unbroken millennia of dramatic tradition.
		The Indian Film song was born as along with 'talking' the Indian Film also 'sang', the wafer thin plot merely serving as a rope to string together the dozen or so musical numbers.
		With the advent of the Talkie Film, the Hindi film song gave birth to a whole new song writing and music composing industry.
	www.upperstall.com /hindisong1.html (1609 words)

	Bollywood for you - : Eid Special
		Ardeshir Irani’s Alam Ara told the story about two queens Navbahar and Dilbahar who were childless.
		A fakir predicts that the queen with a good heart would give birth to a son.
		That very day his wife gives birth to Alam Ara who grows up in a gypsy camp.
	www.b4utv.com /specials/eid/glorious.html (477 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		Qamar’s body comes to life every night when Dilbahaar removes her necklace and becomes lifeless again when the queen wears it in the morning.
		Alam Ara, on one of her visits to the palace at night, finds Qamar alive and falls in love with him.
		Adil is released and Qamar and Alam Ara live happily ever after.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060326/spectrum/main1.htm (2449 words)

	The miracle of breaking silence
		Which hosted a select premiere of Alam Ara in 1931.
		Roy reminisces, “I was 15 years old when Ardeshir made Alam Ara.
		immediately catch fire.” Of Alam Ara, Roy adds, there’s only a reel of a song that remains at the Film Archives.
	www.mid-day.com /smd/play/2005/march/106309.htm (1391 words)

	Kids News
		For example, during the silent film period kissing in films was still permitted and Jairaj had the distinction of enacting many a passionate scene with his co-stars!
		In 1931, India's first talkie Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara was released.
		In the same year Jairaj starred in Shikari, his first talkie, in which he was paid the princely sum of Rs 300 (about $7).
	www.pitara.com /news/news_india/online.asp?story=88 (463 words)

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