FilmIndia (1946)

OUR REVIEW "Tadbir", in dayant-Daue Jumble! Mubarak Gives An Excellent Performance ! Last Days Of Saigal Long before anything else can happen to you in this picture, the tragedy of Saigal comes home. Years ago when the New Theatres discovered Saigal, the Indian screen secured overnight its most emotional singer with the proverbial golden voice. Saigal soon became the ambition of every musician in the country Every young man and woman in the country crooned Saigal's famous songs and within a year over a million throats sung Saigal's popular hits in every nook and corner of India. Saigal has never been a big musician. He had only the divine gift of a glorious voice the like of which has not yet been heard on the Indian screen. We doubt whether the ever genial Saigal ever had any enemies, but if he had some, even they could not have wished any ill to his unique voice. Saigal's voice was considered to be a nation's pride. And justly so. For years he thrilled millions and brought new music into a country that was just becoming unmusical. Saigal must have inspired thousands to learn music and no single person has contributed more to the popularity of Indian music than Saigal has done during the last 10 years. But the man whom Divinity had blessed with such a rare gift proved a Producers: TADBIR Jayant Desai Productions. Language: • Hindustani Story: Mohanlal Dave Songs: Swami Ramanand Dialogues: Munshi Sagar Hussein Photographv: Dronacharya Sound: M. C. Bhalchandra Music: Lai Mohamed Cast: Saigal. Suraiya, Salvi, Mubarak, etc. Released at: Krishna. Bombay. Date of Release: 16th November I94S Director: JAYANT DESAI bad artist with his own life. He does not seem to have realized yet that life's greatest art is life itself. Today he croaks like a sick frog when once his incomparable melody would fill the theatre with thrilling subdeties of human emotions. Though Saigal still stumbles through a weary existence, he is really dead. No longer do we see in him that little spark of Divinity which had given this man a glorious oppor tunity to entertain a willing nation of millions. Saigal is dead. But his song In "Tadbir", a social story produced by Jayant Desai, Mubarak seems to have £<mic blind. And that is n pity seeing that he has done good work after a long time. That's a woman and a dancer. She is called Rufi and we shall see those 'curves' in action in "Rehana" a picture of Girdhar Bahar Productions. will live for many more years till we get another Saigal. Coming to the picture, we find that this fellow. Jayant Desai, seems to be a very unreliable guy. In "Chandragupta" he had shown definite signs of improvement not only in the technique of production but also in harnessing the motion picture" for some purpose. In "Tadbir", he seems to have gone back to his old game of cheap, incon sequential stuff to woo the masses. STORY AGAINST FATALISM "Tadbir" is a story in which there is enough material for 50 more stories. In almost every reel there are at least four such situations on which a full-length screen-play can be easily written. Logic and reason usually never strike Jayant Desai and such a possibility is very remote when Mohanlal Dave conspires with Jayant to give us a picture. It is no wonder therefore that "Tadbir" is a huge jumble of ideas revolving round a fast moving tempo. The Jayant-Dave team does not need pictorial sequences to introduce characters or sequences in a pic lure. In this picture they have given a sister to the heroine, made her widow and dropped a child in her arms, all in fi7