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{{Short description|Indian actor (1917–1959)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Prem Adib
| image = Prem_Adib_(1941).jpg
| caption = Prem Adib in ''Darshan'' (1941)
| birth_name = Prem Narayan
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1917|8|10}}
| birth_place = [[Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh|Sultanpur]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1959|12|25|1917|8|10}}
| death_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay State]], [[India]]
| death_cause =
| occupation = [[Actor]]
| years_active = 1936–1959
| spouse = Krishna Kumari (alias Pratima)
| children =
}}

'''Prem Adib''' (10 August 1917 – 25 December 1959) was an Indian actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://maitrimanthan.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/prem-adib/|title=Prem Adib|publisher=Maitri Manthan|accessdate=10 April 2015}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="Bajaj2014">{{cite book|author=J.K. Bajaj|title=On & Behind the Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1UqAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1943|accessdate=6 September 2015|date=26 March 2014|publisher=Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-5083-621-7|pages=1943–}}</ref> Adib is best remembered for his roles as Lord [[Rama]] in ''[[Bharat Milap]]'' (1942) and ''[[Ram Rajya (1943 film)|Ram Rajya]]'' (1943).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cineplot.com/encyclopedia/prem-adib-1/|title=Prem Adib|publisher=Cine Plot|accessdate=10 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722180840/http://cineplot.com/encyclopedia/prem-adib-1/|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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".<ref name="GulazāraChatterjee2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulazāra|author2=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT81|accessdate=6 September 2015|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=81–}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Pauwels2007">{{cite book|author=Heidi R.M. Pauwels|title=Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAI0scTDAjIC&pg=PA52|accessdate=6 September 2015|date=17 December 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-06255-3|pages=52–}}</ref>

''[[Ram Rajya (1943 film)|Ram Rajya]]'' (1943) also has the distinction of being the only film ever viewed by [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref name="Rishi2012">{{cite book|author=Tilak Rishi|title=Bless You Bollywood!: A Tribute to Hindi Cinema on Completing 100 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r623sWyGm0sC&pg=PA171|accessdate=6 September 2015|year=2012|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4669-3963-9|pages=171–}}</ref>

==Early life==
Prem Narayan Adib was born into a [[Kashmiri Pandit]] family of [[Oudh]] in 1917. His father Pandit Ram Prasad Adib was a lawyer by profession. The family name ''Adīb'' is a courtly Perso-Arabic reference to "learned, scholarly and culturally refined" persons. It had been bestowed on the family as an [[honorific]] in the 19th century by [[Wajid Ali Shah]], the last [[Nawab of Awadh]].

Prem Adib married Krishna Kumari Kaul (alias Pratima), a sister of [[Sheila Kaul]]. He died aged 42 in Bombay on Christmas Day, 1959. He is survived by a daughter Damini Sohoni and a grandson Ankush Sohoni.

==Lawsuit==
Adib was involved in a controversy when a minor actress, acting through her father, filed a case on him for breach of contract related to work. The case became known in legal literature as ''Raj Rani versus Prem Adib''. Prem Adib, the defendant, won, as the case was void due to the girl's minority, and also because of which she could not contract her father to sign on her behalf.<ref name="Prasad">{{cite book|author=Kishor Prasad|title=Problems & Solutions on Civil Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xy0gpuLkwX0C&pg=PA103|accessdate=6 September 2015|publisher=Universal Law Publishing|isbn=978-81-7534-901-8|pages=103–}}</ref><ref name=indiankanoon>{{cite web|title=Raj Rani vs Prem Adib|url=http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1972437/|website=indiankanoon.org|publisher=IndianKanoon.org|accessdate=6 September 2015|ref=Bombay High Court on 21 July 1948 J. Desai}}</ref>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Angulimaal (film)|Angulimaal]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Bhakt Raj]]'' (1959)
* ''Samarat Prithviraj Chauvan'' (1957)
* ''Chandi Pooja'' (1955)
* ''Ganga Maiyya'' (1955)
* ''Bhagwat Mahima'' (1954)
* ''Maha Puja'' (1952)
* ''Mordhwaj'' (1951)
* ''Lav Kush'' (1949)
* ''Bholi'' (1949)
* ''Maa Ka Pyaar'' (1948)
* ''[[Anokhi Ada (1948 film)|Anokhi Ada]]'' (1948)
* ''[[Rambaan]]'' (1948)
* ''Veerangana'' (1946)
* ''Subhadra'' (1945)
* ''Chand'' (1944)
* ''Amrapali'' (1944)
* ''Police'' (1943)
* ''[[Ram Rajya (1943 film)|Ram Rajya]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Bharat Milap]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Chudiyan]]'' (1942)
* ''Station Master'' (1938)
* ''Nirala Hindustan'' (1938)
* ''[[Talaq (1938 film)|Talaq]]'' (1938)

==References==
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==External links==
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