Prem Adib

Prem Adib
Prem Adib in Actress (1949)
Born
Prem Narayan

(1917-08-10)10 August 1917
Sultanpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died25 December 1959(1959-12-25) (aged 42)
Bombay, Bombay State, India
OccupationActor
Years active1936–1959
SpouseKrishna Kumari (alias Pratima)

Prem Adib (10 August 1917 – 25 December 1959) was an Indian actor.[1] He was acclaimed as one of the top Bollywood actors of the 1940s, along with the likes of Pahari Sanyal, Ashok Kumar, P. C. Barua and Master Vinayak.[2] Adib is best remembered for his roles as Lord Rama in Bharat Milap (1942) and Ram Rajya (1943).[3] These films had him paired with Shobhana Samarth as Sita, and the duo came to be celebrated as an embodiment of chaste love and "traditional Indian values".[4] Adib and Samarth continued as the holy Rama-Sita pair in another Ramayana-based film, Rambaan (1948). From 1943 to 1950, the Adib-Samarth screen pair became popular enough to be featured on covers of religious publications and on thousands of calendars, which would be placed in Hindu temples as objects of worship.[5]

Ram Rajya (1943) also has the distinction of being the only film ever viewed by Mahatma Gandhi.[6]

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  2. ^ J.K. Bajaj (26 March 2014). On & Behind the Indian Cinema. Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. pp. 1943–. ISBN 978-93-5083-621-7. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Prem Adib". Cine Plot. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. ^ Gulazāra; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  5. ^ Heidi R.M. Pauwels (17 December 2007). Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics. Routledge. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-1-134-06255-3. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  6. ^ Tilak Rishi (2012). Bless You Bollywood!: A Tribute to Hindi Cinema on Completing 100 Years. Trafford Publishing. pp. 171–. ISBN 978-1-4669-3963-9. Retrieved 6 September 2015.