While many will recognise the song, Shola Jo Bhadke, from the film, few know about the drama that ensued. But his slap was so strong that she underwent treatment for next three years and one of her eyes became defective as well. Bhagwan Dada's Albela went on to become one of the costliest Bollywood films of its time.

In 1942, while picturing a scene, he had to slap actress Lalita Pawar. He was the owner of Jagriti Studios in the late 1940’s. He entered production field in the early 1940’s. He gave importance to action and his movies appealed middle class a lot. Then for about one decade, till 1949 he made low budget movies. He also assigned many of the tasks himself so that he can reduce overall budget.īahadur Kisan in 1938 marked his debut as a film director. He also worked in studios as assistant and later started making movies of low budget. His love to movies prompted him to work in silent movies in bit roles and slowly he learnt the art of film making. Dada got attracted to movies at a younger age and started dreaming about movies. His real name is Bhagwan Abhaji Palav and he was born in Mumbai in the year 1913, August 1 in a poor family. Ramchandra, who composed the music of all songs of Albela as well. All the songs pictured on him were sung by renowned music composer C.

His facial expressions and body language made both these songs so popular and even adored today. He was the film director and lead hero of the movie too. Albela – released in 1951 is mostly remembered for the hit songs pictured on Dada, particularly, 'Shola Jo Bhadke' and “Bholi surat hai dil ke khote”. He was one among the first Bollywood actors who established himself as a comedian and later, many actors stepped into his shoes and followed him as their role model. Bhagwan Dada was an ace comedian of Bollywood yesterdays.

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