Alam Ara Celebrated by a Google Doodle

Google Doodle celebrates 80 years of Alam Ara.

Alam Ara - First Indian movie with Sound!



Alam Ara {Urdu: عالم آراء}{Hindi: आलमआरा} (The Light of the World; 1931), directed by Ardeshir Irani, was the first Indian sound film.

Both the movie and its music were widely successful[5], including the hit song De de khuda ke naam per, which was also the first song of the Indian cinema, and was sung by actor Wazir Mohammed Khan who played a fakir in the film.

The tragedy, however, is that the film may be lost forever. In 2008, an Information and Broadcasting ministry official revealed that no prints are now available with the National Archives of India. The last existing prints were destroyed in a fire at Pune's National Film Archives in 2003. A search was conducted across the country but no print of Alam Ara could be found.

Today’s Google Doodle was a real surprise to me, as I did not expect Google to celebrate an event which probably, even lot of Indians have forgotten about.