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OUR REVIEW
"Kurukshetra" Prouides Splitting Headache !
A Disgustingly Stupid Film Concoction !
Sham ii Makes A Good Impression !
Producer-director Rameshwar Sharma has produced some good pictures in the past. His ""Kabir" was an impressive motion picture, while his '"Kurukshetra'' is just the other way about.
In "Kurukshetra" Sharmaji has Hed to be intellectual and original but has ended by being stupid and boring. He wanted to harness the teachings of the Bhagwad Gita and turn them into a message for the present times. And while doing this he tries to ventilate his socialism, his ideas of well-applied patriotism and his notions about the obligations of a film producer.
With so many aims in view, the ideals get badly mixed up and "Kurukshetra"' bci o m e s another battlefield with the corpses of ambitions and intentions lying scattered all over the field.
As seen on the screen, Rameshwar Sharma's picture provides a splitting headache to one even with a bullet-proof skull. '"Kurukshetra" is perhaps the most stupid film concoction of the past ancl the present ever seen on the Indian screen and as such becomes a dangerous 'entertainment' to people with tired nerves. If not warned, in time, the extreme boredom of the picture is likely to prove fatal in case of hypersensitive people.
A STUPID CONCOCTION
The story, which is a stupid concoction from the banning to the end. opens with a film director persuading a social worker, Suvarnarekha, to work in his film, "Kurukshetra", which is planned to remove the curse of ignorance from the world and thereby provide a new design for living to the masses.
The film director Yeshwant Sinha, betrays missionary zeal for
KURUKSHETRA Producers: Unity Productions. Language: Hindi. Story ^ Dialogue: Kamala Kant Varma Lyrics: Jamil Mazhari
Photography: G. K. Mehta Audiography: Mannalal Ladia Music: Pt. Ganpat Rao.
Art: Charu Roy
Cast: Saigal, Nawab Kashmiri, Agha Muhamad Kashmiri. Shamli, Udwadia. Biman Bannerjee etc.
Released At: New West End,
Bombay. Date of Release: 17th May '48
Directed By: RAMESHWAR SHARMA
his purposeful pursuit and often behaves like a crank and sometimes even sheds a tear or two.
Xow we see incidents from the Mahabharata beginning from the Draupadi Swayamwar. While many kings, looking kingly at least, fail to win the prize, the effeminate looking Arjun fBiman Bannerjeel comes along with delicate grace and a peculiar bedside manner and lifting the supposedly heavy bow, strings it and shoots through the dangling fish. It was supposed to be a test of strength and skill. With the help of Rameshwar Sharma, however, 'Arjun' wins 'Draupadi'.
Here we see "Lord Krishna", the human god who is supposed to have preached the Bhagwad Gita. We don't know who the guy is, but the way he looks we must admit that divinity in those days had an ugly face and so had the devotees, the five Pandavas. Dharmaraj looks like a dissipated eunuch, if a eunuch can be dissipated.
Another incident from the Mahabharata is of the dice-play in which the Pandavas lose everything including Draupadi. The picturization of this incident and its grim sequel is perhaps the most ludicrous attempt ever made on the screen. Draupadi is supplied with saris of different colours and Dusshasan pulls them out in
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