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FILM INDIA
VOL. 3 No. 9
lack the voice that is necessary for good music. They attempt to sing some classic tunes, but all of them practically fail to please. Looking at their faces is a job by itself and the music coming out of their mouths does not leave a good impression. Background music is silly.
Photography: (By Sazu Naik) Is good in parts.
Recording: (By C. K. Trivedi) Quite decent.
Performances: Madhuri as Bansari, the sister of a racketeer has gone back a lot in her performance. She is just no good in this picture. The cameraman has not been kind to her and at places she looks rather bad. Her dialogues have not improved at all, on the contrary, they sound ridiculous in view of the progress that other artistes have made with their dialogues. E. Billimoria is looking definitely old and weak, es
pecially so when he removes his coat and moves about in shirt. The half-starved look about him does not contribute to the fanciful worship of a hero. To give him hero roles in future v/ill be a risk. Ishwarlal is quite good, but he indulges in plenty of erratic and stagy actions. Dixit has given some good work in places, but at places he is stupid. Ghory is silly. Ram Apte is tiresome. Bhupatrai is monotonous. Khatoon is no good. Her singing fails to impress.
Direction: (By Jayant Desai) If Jayant Desai stops directing future pictures we shall be much obliged. What he has done in this picture is just not direction — admitting though that there was not much to direct in the story itself. The whole affair is too slap stick and silly enough to call for the services of any good director.
Costumes: Suitable.
Settings: Couple of them are quite good, but they were not taken nicely by the director.
Special Effects: Nil.
General Remarks: It is a pity that Mr. Chandulal Shah who is credited with an unusual amount of commonsense and business acumen should indulge in producing such silly pictures from month to month and spoil the public taste in addition to trading away his own interest. It is high time that he puts a stop to the slap stick production and takes up some more serious subjects in hand. We expect this from a man of Chandulal Shah's calibre and intelligence.
Publicity: Entirely useless and not such as to draw any crowd.
Box-Office Value: As a short change programme the picture may be booked but under no circumstances by giving a minimum guarantee.
Produced by
BOMBAY TALKIES LIMITED
MALAD
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