दौलत का नशा

A social drama from Imperial Movietone — Ardeshir Irani's studio that had just made history with Alam Ara — built around the intoxication of wealth and its corrupting influence on human relationships. The film explored class division, the arrogance of money, and the moral cost of material ambition, themes that would recur throughout early Hindi social cinema. Director Pesi Karani brought to the project the studio experience he had developed under Imperial's umbrella.

Individual song titles for this film are not documented in currently available filmographic sources and are pending identification from HFGK (Hindi Film Geet Kosh) or equivalent archival material. Song list will be updated when documentation becomes available.

Ferozshah Mistri — who co-composed Alam Ara the same year — shared music direction with Mohammed Hadi, himself an actor-musician with roots in the Parsi theatre tradition. The dual music-direction arrangement was common at Imperial, reflecting the ensemble approach of early talkie production where stage musicians and film technicians worked side by side.

Imperial Movietone — the studio that produced Alam Ara — demonstrated with Daulat Ka Nasha that it was equally comfortable in the social genre. The casting of Master Vithal, one of early Hindi cinema's most bankable action and social heroes, signals this was a commercially ambitious production within the studio's 1931 output.

No print of Daulat Ka Nasha is known to survive, and its song list remains undocumented — a double archival loss typical of 1931 social films that lacked the mythological prestige that sometimes motivated better preservation. The film survives in name in film histories as part of Imperial Movietone's 1931 output.