Prem Adib

Prem Adib (10 August 1917 – 25 December 1959) was an Indian actor. He was acclaimed as one of the top Bollywood actors of the 1940s, along with the likes of Pahari Sanyal, Ashok Kumar, P. C. Barua and Master Vinayak. Adib is best remembered for his roles as Lord Rama in Bharat Milap (1942) and Ram Rajya (1943). These films had him paired with Shobhana Samarth as Sita, and the duo came to be celebrated as an embodiment of chaste love and "traditional Indian values". Adib and Samarth continued as the holy Rama-Sita pair in another Ramayana-based film, Rambaan (1948). From 1943 to 1950, the Adib-Samarth screen pair became popular enough to be featured on covers of religious publications and on thousands of calendars, which would be placed in Hindu temples as objects of worship.

Prem Adib
Prem Adib in Darshan (1941)
Born
Prem Narayan

(1917-08-10)10 August 1917
Sultanpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died25 December 1959(1959-12-25) (aged 42)
Bombay, Bombay State, India
OccupationActor
Years active1936–1959
SpouseKrishna Kumari (alias Pratima)

Ram Rajya (1943) also has the distinction of being the only film ever viewed by Mahatma Gandhi.

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