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April 1938
"HIMALAYA-KI-BETI"
Produced by: Bhavnctni Productions.
Released at: Krishna Cinema, Bombay.
Date of Release: 2nd April 1938.
Bombay Circuit Distributors: Evergreen Pictures.
Cast: Enakshi Ramarau, M.A., Ramanand, Puri, Maya Chatterjee, David, Badriprasad, Rai Mohan etc.
Screen Play: (By M. Bhavnani).
This is just another contribution of Mohan Bhavnani to his pyre of art, imagination and hopes. At best it is a stupid story. Its very conception is unconvincing. It is a pity that Bhavnani with all his past experience should still be ignorant of the fundamental essentials of a screen play. Several beautiful scenes of nature are relentlessly debauched amidst
numerous situations betraying utter impotence of thought and imagination. The whole affair is too boring and rotten for words.
Dialogues: Hindi. (By Narottam Vyas). The dialogues are generally good and some are really beautiful. But the artistes hardly accentuate the inherent beauty of these dialogues by correct diction. The songs are well composed.
Photography: (By Dara R. Mistry). Amateurish ! Night scenes are too bright. "R" film with the red filter is not used to advantage. The additional use of Schieb's Fog Filter would have given the required effect. Photography is not at all enterprising.
.Recording: (By Minoo Cooper). Too poor. High frequencies in the music are lost.
Music: (By Badri Prasad). The tunes are classic, but only one song is well sung, viz., song No. 5 in "Gunkali".
FILMINDIA
Pertormances: I have rarely seen so many ugly artistes in a single picture. There is not a single face with any pictorial value, lending any relief to the eye. Everyone of them has a repulsive face, unsuitable for the films. Their performances can therefore never be sympathetically viewed by the audience. Enakshi Ramarau has given one good dance in accompaniment with the song in "Gunkali". This is really a beautiful effort. Barring this solitary piece of performance, her entire work is too bad. Her diction of the Hindi language is European and it is almost perfect at that. Maya Chatterjee has sincerely tired to do something, but her face is so much against her that every sympathetic action looks a grimace. Ramanand and Puri cannot act. They should leave the screen alone.
Costumes have no school.
Special Effects: Nil, barring some good shots of the snow-clad
An interesting shot from "Nirmala" a Bombay Talkies production.
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