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January, 1948
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As a motion picture "Meera" :s a musical entertainment with S'ibbulakshmi singing gloriously >nng after song mixing Carnatie ragas with popular Hindustani airs. The mixture is quite pleasant to the ears, particularly the ^nft notes which Subbulakshmi -ings with plenty of bright facial expression behind them. In fact, 3ubbulakshmi'8 face lights up only whilst singing but at other times it seems as if the mind is switched off and the face remains deadly rigid. Subbulakshmi will take perhaps ten years more to rid her Hindustani phonetics of its present Tamil dressing. Quite a lot of fast dialogue Subbulakshmi has vomitted in such right royal Tamil style that one wonders whether a few dubbings were missed. Subbulakshmi is too tiny a woman for motion pictures, though she has an excellent voice for music. As Meera she is far, far away from the supposed reincarnation of the original. Neither the white director, Ellis Dungan, nor the musical Subbulakshmi seems to have realised the spiritual stature of Meera, the devotee of Lord Krishna. Subbulakahmi's Meera becomes only a songstress of Lord Krishna
not the devotee whose spirit fotind its unity with the Lord.
ONLY A MUSICAL
Xagiah who plays the Maharana, looks a round shouldered potato whose very attempt to register an expression on the face creates laughter. Xagiah seems to have lost both his art and figure of old. What a pity !
As the story is completely dominated by Subbukishmi, no one else has a dog's chance to do anything. The others rush about in a hurry, making broad faces all the while and occasionally spit out a dialogue in some set or street corner to break the silent monotony of the rush performances.
Ellis Dungan's direction can only be considered from a technical angle. Tt is quite good technically, but Dungan has completely missed the emotional part of the story.
To conclude there is nothing much of Meera in "Meera", not even her original songs but the picture provides quite a delightful concert of Subbulakshmi's music under the auspices of ,:Meera". And Subbidakshmi sings beautifully.
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