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FILM INDIA
February 1938
result that theatre-goers are still blackmailed outside the gates by the ticket hawkers.
Someone must do something about this if our theatres are to give better service to their patrons.
A RETIRED' MAN'S TRICK:
Sometime back when Chandulal Shah, the male partner of Ranjit Movietone was talking of stopping production and retiring from the film industry, we knew he was pulling our leg. But to show him courtesy we all pretended to believe him.
But we all knew this old campaigner too well. He is not the one to allow grass to grow under his feet.
All on the quiet, he went out and built a large and beautiful sound proof studio and the other day, I think on Sunday the 30th January,
Kumari Saroj and Nagraj Kumari in "Bal Yogini" being produced by Mahalaxmi Studios, Madras.
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he invited nearly a thousand people perhaps to convince them with the news that he had been bluffing all of them all along.
Once again, we all swallowed the stuff to save old Chandulal from certain discomfiture if we had told him that we had known of this new outburst of activity all along.
Ah, the new studio — the new Ranjit studio! It is big and beautiful with such perfect accoustics that even if the director tried a tete-a-tete in whispers with the heroine it would all come out on the sound track as distinct as a song of the lark.
And Chandulal received all with a triumphant air while Gohar looked on with modest approval. It was a triumph for all, including Chaturbhuj Doshi who tried his hand at looking important.
The first picture that is going into the new studio for production is "Bharathi Maiya" starring Gohar and it is going to be a real quality picture. Bravo, Chandulal!
THE MEN WHO BUILT IT!
By the way we mustn't forget to tell you who built this beautiful studio, which as a construction, is almost perfect.
Messrs. Bhagat & Sons, our local Engineers so well known for the big jobs they have handled in the past, were responsible for the entire steel construction, which to say the least, needs correct precision in the case of such a big studio.
The Electric equipment and fittings were the responsibility of the Crown Electric Stores, Government Contractors and seeing what they have done we think they have done their best.
And we now come to the most important part of the film studio — construction. The Acoustics! Always a ticklish question with studio owners, Chandulal Shah went out and got rid of the worry by adopting "Heraklith" and giving the contract to the Asbestos and Belting Co., Ltd., to fit the same. And now "Heraklith" has secured a standard of acoustics which will for the first time make whispers sound like whispers on the Indian Screen.
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