For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Before I met Jowshan Ara Rahman as poet Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury's wife, I had known her chiefly as involved with the publication ...

I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who wrote the first poem on Ekushey. I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I ...

Later Amitabh Bachchan told the history of Zubeida. He said that Zubeida had acted in India's first talking film Alam Ara and inspired by her, the Bollywood film Zubeida was made starring Karisma ...

New York Times bestselling author Rumaan Alam sits down with Hoda and Jenna to share the inspiration behind his new book “Entitlement” and how the book aims to question readers’ attitudes ...

Prithviraj’s first claim to fame was playing the villain in India’s first talkie-Alam Ara (1931) but it was with the 1993 hit Rajrani Meera, that he rose to stardom. Later on, he went on to ...

Bachchan then shared additional details, explaining that Zubeida starred in Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, and that her life inspired the Bollywood film Zubeidaa, which starred Karisma ...

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This was the first time an actor had played multiple roles in an Indian film. Alam Ara also featured the first recorded song for an Indian film. It was called “De De Khuda Ke Naam Pe Pyaare ...

From India's first talkie film, Alam Ara, to colour cinema classics like Mughal-E-Azam, Maganlal Dresswalla has dressed generations of stars and characters in unforgettable garb. Creating costumes for ...

While Kapoor quelled him with a spirited riposte, his career also showcased his prowess as he shuttled from films -- appearing in the first Indian talkie 'Alam Ara' (1931) -- to theatre ...