Rambaan

Rambaan
Directed byVijay Bhatt
Written byMohanlal Dave
Pandit Girish (dialogues)
Produced byVijay Bhatt
Starring
CinematographyG. N. Shirodkar
Music byShankar Rao Vyas
Production
company
Prakash Pictures
Release date
  • 2 December 1948 (1948-12-02)
Running time
155 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Rambaan (transl. Rama's arrow) is a 1948 Indian Hindi-language mythological drama film directed and produced by Vijay Bhatt and written by Mohanlal Dave, with dialogue by Pandit Girish.[1] The film starred Prem Adib as Rama and Shobhana Samarth as Sita, with Chandra Mohan, Umakant, Amirbai Karnataki and Raj Adib in other principal characters.[2] The film's music was composed by Shankar Rao Vyas.[3]

Bhatt has produced several films based on themes from the epic Ramayana.[4] Rambaan is the third film in Bhatt's trilogy of films based on Ramayana with Adib as Rama and Samarth as Sita, after Bharat Milap (1942) and Ram Rajya (1943). Samarth and Adib attained popularity with these films that they were featured as Rama and Sita on calendars, despite Adib being a Muslim.[5]

  1. ^ Patel, Baburao. "Full Text of Filmindia (1949)". archive.org. Internet archive. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Rambaan". Alan Goble. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Rambaan 1948". Gomolo.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. ^ Gulazāra; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 555–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 15 January 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 16 January 2015.