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FILMINDIA
VOL. 3 No. 8'
by a weak pen and lack of imagination.
Publicity: Usual Sagar publicity attended this picture with the result that a large crowd was drawn to the theatre in the first week but thereafter
Box Office Value: The picture will pay in places where Sabita is popular.
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"JEEVAN PRABHAT". Producers: Bombay Talkies Ltd.
Released at: Minerva Talkies, Bombay.
Date of Release: 2nd November 1937.
Bombay Circuit Distributors: Ramniklal Mohanlal & Co.
Star Value: Devika Rani.
Other Cast: Maya Devi, Mumtaz Ali, Renuka Devi, Kishore Sahu.
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Screen Play: (By Niranjan Pal.) Pal has at last given a good story with plenty of entertainment. The theme is not much to admire, but the scenario is cleverly prepared. There is hardly a boring moment in the picture. The plot is a social story in which a Brahmin girl from the villages marries another Brahmin boy; but the marriage is denied a child for a time and then there is another wife. The first wife returns to her father's house and there gets a child quite unexpectedly.
Complications step in, because in the village there is a Harijan boy who loves the heroine. The whole muddle is rather interestingly woven out.
Language: (Hind.) (By J. S. Casshyap). Good dialogues as usual are .given by this man. The songs are also well composed.
Music: (By Saraswati Devi): Rather attractive tunes provide a good musical fare which proves very pleasant and entertaining.
Photography: (By Joseph Wirsching) : Quite good. Some outdoor shots are beautiful.
Recording: (By S. Mukerji) : Decent though admitting some defects.
Laboratory & Editing: Both
quite good.
Direction: (By Franz Osten) : Osten has given better work than ever before in giving a harmonious picture.
Performances: Devika-sweet and glamorous — once again scores another triumph. But why paint the lily. She is superb. That new girl Renuka Devi is attractive but she has yet to learn acting. Nazir was once again good in his small part. Pithawalla was not bad. Kishore Sahu was a big disappointment. He was even worse than Ashok Kumar.
Costumes: Quite attractive.
Settings: Appropriate.
Special Effects: Some village scenes and dances are attractive.
General Remarks: I cannot
approve of the poor taste shown by the producers in choosing the men to work with Devika. Kishore Sahu is another 'misfire' as an actor. What a pity that one of the sweetest girls of the screen should not get a suitable hero.
"Let the kiss leave a brighter impression"!! Is that what Kanan wants Barua to do in "Mukti".
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