Influences
The film was inspired by the first movie version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat (1929), released by there is no trace of the film today. Even the National Archives of India says that the last known prints, in Pune’s film archives, were damaged by a fire in 2003. However, according to P.K. Nair, founder director of the National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune, “The report that Alam Ara print was destroyed at the NFAI is incorrect.].
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