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OUR REV7FW
Tamil "Meera" Becomes A Hindi
Musical !
Subbulakshmi9 s Melody Delights Crowds !
This is a praiseworthy attempt by a South Indian producer to introduce a South Indian picture in the all-India field. It should have been done long before but very few producers from the South have either the initiative or the enterprise to step out of their small field into the nation wide arena of commerce and competition. We congratulate Producer T. Sadashivam for his singular enterprise and wish his venture every success.
'Meera" was originally produced in Tamil but in Bombay we are shown the version dubbed in Hindi, with songs specially taken for the Hindi version. From what we saw on the screen it must have been no end of a ticklish job to fit in Hindi words on the Tamil lip movement, especially with the stagy and loud South Indian actors who believe in stretching their mouths in all sorts of ugly formations while spitting their Tamil dialogue. In the matter of word synchronization, this Hindi version could
be said to have been 50% successful. Not at all a bad scoring for the first attempt!
SUBBULAKSHMI'S CONCERT
The story of "Meera" is traditional with a few liberties in the film treatment. In fact Subbulakshmi's oft repeating melody leaves very little scope for the film story to be developed in a dramatic manner. Song is piled on song one after another till we forget Meera completely and go out with the delightful feeling of having attended a concert of Subbulakshmi.
Our grand old lady Sarojini Naidu, in her warm and generous moment, bluffs us all about Subbulakshmi being the very re-incarnation of Meera. Don't believe grandma. She becomes poetic in her most affectionate mood and words which fall from her mouth become beautiful flowers of speech and description. It is enough to know that Grandma loves Subbulakshmi who. as both stood side by side on the
MEERA
Producers: Chandraprabha Cinetone
Language: Hindi (Dubbed version )
Dialogue: Amritlal Nagar
Songs: Narendra Sharma
Music: Venkatram, Ramnath & Bhattacharya
Cast: M. S. Subbulakshmi, Radha, V. Nagiah etc.
Released At: Central, Bombay.
Date of Release: 21st November 1947.
Directed By: ELLIS R DUNGAN
Surraiya is playing the waiting game in "Kajal" a social story produced by Rattan Pictures.
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screen, looked one eighth of Grandma's towering personality.
LILLIPUTIAN RAJPUTS
Meera was a princess of Rajasthan with Rajputs around her. But in this South Indian "Meera", the Rajputs looked puny little fellows with round shoulders, clumsy paunches, shiny cheeks and idiotic eyes. Even the crepe beards seemed to pull them down with weight. The little Tamilians of the South look very poor Rajputs and it is a bit foolhardy for South Indian producers to take up a Rajput subject for production. Even Subbu'akshmi looks so slight and small that one wonders whether the immortal Rajputs of Mewad were a Lilliputian clan. As atmosphere is a vital part of a motion picture story, the Rajput atmosphere in "Meera" is very poor. "Meera" has, however, a few good sets but at places they al?o look crowded and too decorative, proving well the fact that South Indians are good temple builders but with all that not estabhshing the correct architectural atmosphere of Meera's times.
SONGSTRESS OF KRISHNA
The South Indian photngraphv is distinctly better than the song shots taken in Bombay.