Albela (1951 film)
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Duration Music director C. Ramchandra Language Hindi | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Musical Running time 2h 38m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1951 Writer Master Bhagwan (scenario), Master Bhagwan (story), Rajendra Krishan (lyrics), Ehsan Rizvi (dialogue) Cast Bhagwan Dada (Pyarelal), (Asha), Badri Prasad (Pyarelals Father), Pratima Devi (Pyarelals Mother), Bimla Kumari (Bimla)Similar movies C Ramchandra composed the music for Albela and Azaad, Pyar Ki Jeet (1987), Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976), Do Phool (1973), Joru Ka Ghulam (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albela is a 1951 Bollywood musical comedy film directed by and starring Bhagwan Dada and Geeta Bali. A Hindi classic, it was the third highest grossing film at the Indian Box Office in 1951 and its soundtrack by C. Ramchandra was acclaimed.
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The film was later dubbed in Tamil as Nalla Pillai (Tamil: நல்லப் பிள்ளை) in 1953.
Cast
Music
The music director of the film was C. Ramchandra and the soundtrack was acclaimed, cited as a "classic". The film features several westerinized songs such as Sholajo badhke and Ye deewana, ye parwana which are said to have "employed cabaret type dance/choruses featuring bongo drums, oboes,, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones, etc." C.Ramachandra as Chitalkar himself sang most of the male songs in the movie while Lata Mangeshkar sang all the female songs. Apart from the highly popular Western style songs, the movie also had classic melodies like "Dheere se aaja re ankhiyan me", "Balama bada nadan re" etc...
Soundtrack
The music was composed by C. Ramchandra.
Hindi Songs
Tamil Songs
References
Albela (1951 film) WikipediaAlbela (1951 film) IMDb