Allauddin Adhbhuta Deepam

Allauddin Adhbhuta Deepam is the Telugu version of Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp, a 1957 fantasy film directed by T. R. Raghunath and produced by M. L. Pathy under Jai Sakthi Pictures, shot simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil (Allavudeenum Arputha Vilakkum) and Hindi (Alladdin Ka Chirag). Adapted from the tale of Aladdin in the One Thousand and One Nights, it stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Aladdin, Anjali Devi as Princess Yasmin and S. V. Ranga Rao as the sorcerer Jaffer, with music by S. Rajeswara Rao and S. Hanumantha Rao. The Telugu version, released on 13 April 1957, was the first Telugu film to include a colour sequence.

What the story is about

Jaffer, a cruel sorcerer bent on ruling the world, learns from his friend Yakub of a magic lamp holding a genie who grants any wish. It lies hidden in the Korakaram caves and can be fetched only by a young man with seven moles on his right hand: Aladdin. Posing as Aladdin’s paternal uncle, Jaffer sends him into the caves for the lamp. Aladdin finds it but refuses to hand it over, and the furious sorcerer seals him inside. Escaping with the help of a magic ring Jaffer had given him, Aladdin returns home, where his frightened mother throws the lamp away, shortly before her son falls in love with Yasmin, the Sultan of Baghdad’s daughter.

Cast

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Aladdin, with Master Anand as the young Aladdin
• Anjali Devi as Yasmin
• S. V. Ranga Rao as Jaffer
• T. S. Balaiah as Yakub
• K. Malathi as Fathima, Aladdin’s mother
• Relangi as Syed (Telugu version)
• Rajasulochana as Sitara and G. Sakunthala as Roshanara

Making the film

Raghunath wrote the screenplay with V. Srinivasan, R. Sampath was the cinematographer and S. A. Murugesan the editor. Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp was used as the English title for all three versions. The song sequence “Seladum Neerodai Meethe” and its Telugu counterpart were shot in Gevacolor, and the film’s censor certificate describes it as partly coloured, which makes the Telugu version the first Telugu film with a colour sequence.

Music and release

S. Rajeswara Rao and S. Hanumantha Rao composed the soundtrack. The Tamil version was released first, on 29 March 1957, followed by the Telugu version on 13 April and the Hindi version later the same year. Wikipedia’s article does not record the film’s reviews or box-office performance, so we do not characterise either.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp; Wikidata; our own cast and crew records.