Albela is a 1951

Bollywood films of 1951

A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1951:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1951:-1951:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 musical comedy film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by and starring Bhagwan Dada

Bhagwan Dada

Bhagwan Dada was an Indian actor and film director. He is best known for his social film Albela.-Early life:...

 and Geeta Bali

Geeta Bali

Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood.-Early life:Bali was born in a Mohyal family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, a Sikh. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.-Career:Bali became a star in the 1950s...

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A Hindi classic, it was the third highest grossing film at the Indian Box Office in 1951 and its soundtrack by C. Ramchandra

C. Ramchandra

Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar was a renowned music composer in the movie industry of India. In the composer's role, he mostly used the name C. Ramachandra, though he also used the names Annasaheb , Ram Chitalkar Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar(Marathi: रामचंद्र नरहर चितळकर /सी.रामचंद्र ) (1918–1982) was...

 was acclaimed.

Cast

• Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood.-Early life:Bali was born in a Mohyal family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, a Sikh. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.-Career:Bali became a star in the 1950s...
  
  ... as Asha
• Bhagwan  as Pyarelal
• Badri Prasad  as Pyarelal's Father
• Sunder
  Sunder
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    as Theatre Owner (as Sundar)
• Pratima Devi as Pyarelal's Mother
• Dulari
  Dulari
  Dulari is a village development committee in Morang District in the Kosi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6860 people living in 1262 individual households....
  
    as Malti

Music

The music director of the film was C. Ramchandra

C. Ramchandra

Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar was a renowned music composer in the movie industry of India. In the composer's role, he mostly used the name C. Ramachandra, though he also used the names Annasaheb , Ram Chitalkar Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar(Marathi: रामचंद्र नरहर चितळकर /सी.रामचंद्र ) (1918–1982) was...

 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."Famous playback singer Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

sang the song Balama bada nadan re.

External links

• Clip of the song Balama bada nadan re