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F I .ill N D I A
March 193
,jrding: (By Khandubhai Desai)
Very unsatisfactory. Sheer negligence is responsible for absolute bad recording in several scenes.
Editing: (By R. G. Gore).
Quite common place. The first song betrays very bad editing.
Direction: (By Ram Daryani).
Some of the scenes are well directed particularly those in which Leela Chitnis appears. The rest is carelessly done. Trifling but significant mistakes have been committed throughout the picture. To quote one, Leela Chitnis fires two revolver shots at the mirror and the mirror remains untouched till she throws the revolver at it. Admitting that film people use blanks in the revolvers, considering that Leela plays the role of a dacoit and as such is supposed to aim correctly with real bullets, something should have happened to the mirror. That, nothing happens is rather strange.
Performances: Leela Chitnis is easily the best. She gives a very good performance but the diction of her dialogues is not very happy. Omkar and Gope are good in their usual slapstick way. Kokila's performance is satisfactory but her dialogues are far from being so. Ramlal and Manek fail to convince. Effendi is tolerable. Majid is rotten. Amir Karnatki's songs are both useless and un necessary.
Publicity: The publicity of the picture was quite good more because it was in the right hands rather than in the wrong ones.
Box-office value: Quite a good picture for bi-weekly change and may appeal particularly to school boys. A minimum guarantee will be a risk.
"300 DAYS & AFTER"
Produced by: Sagar Movietone, Bombay.
Released at: West End Talkies.
Date of Release: 12th March 193E Bombay Circuit Distributors Supreme Film Distributors.
Cast: Sabita Devi, Motilal, Bibbc Yakub, Gulzar, Sankathc Pande and others.
Screen Play: (By Babubhai A Mehta).
This is a story of a young mil lionaire who gets disgusted anc feels out of sorts because of hi: immense wealth and because he has nothing to do. He takes up c bet with his doctor and goes ou into the world for three hundrec days to earn a living without c copper in his pocket. He meets with numerous adventures, some of them very enterprising and ultimately meets his partner of life to whom he gets married after one great climax of interesting situations.
The story is cleverly written and though it does not boast of any particular theme or moral it is nevertheless entertaining enough at every stage.
This solicitor (Sankatha) seems to specialise in a good secretary and a better client. An interesting situation in Sagar's "300 Days and After" starring Sabita Devi (standing). The picture is drawing
crowds at the West End Cinema.