Irani was inspired to make Alam Ara, after watching the 1929 American part-talkie Show Boat.
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10 Facts About Alam Ara
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Alam Ara was released on 14 March 1931 and performed well at the box office.
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Therefore, the king arrests him and evicts his pregnant wife, Mehar Nigar, from the palace; Nigar gives birth to Alam Ara and dies when a shikari tells her about her husband.
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Apart from that, Ara knows about her innocent father's suffering, vowing to release him from jail.
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The project was titled Alam Ara and produced by Irani for Imperial Film Company, an entertainment studio he co-founded with the tent showman Abdulally Esoofally in 1926.
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Alam Ara, which was funded by the business tycoon Seth Badriprasad Dube, cost 40,000.
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Exact figures for the box-office earnings of Alam Ara are not available, but many historians believed that the film performed well.
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Critics were generally positive of Alam Ara, praising the performance of the cast but some of whom criticising the sound recording; they have noted that it has "shared many of the common defects of Indian productions" and ended a trend where the previous Indian films always promoting social values in their plot.
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Alam Ara added the fire only destroyed mostly the nitrate negatives of Prabhat Film Company, and confirmed that he had received several photographs of the film from Irani and his son Shapoorji.
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