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F I L
X D I A
March 1938
the grip on the devotional people to be relaxed. Time and again pictures like this have been verysuccessful in different parts of India and even after exploiting the early runs they keep on drawing crowds seasonally. To that extent "Kanhopatra" will have a permanent appeal.
Publicity: Half hearted publicity was given to the picture at the time of its release. In floating a picture of this nature it was necessary to tell the world of its theme and contrast the same with existing conditions in modern life.
Box-ottice Value: The picture will run well in all Hindu localities, and can be booked safely with some minimum guarantee.
"GENTLEMAN DAKU"
Produced by: Daryani Productions.
Released at: Pathe Cinema.
Date ot Release: 12th February 1938.
Bombay Circuit Distributors: Royal Film Circuit.
Casf: Leela Chitnis, Kokila, Yusuf Effendi, Omkar, Gope, etc.
Screen Play: (By Dwarka Khosla).
It is rather strange for Mr. Khosla to write a screen story. The result is that there is nothing original or novel in the entire story. When people try to take up wrong jobs, they come to grief and this is exactly what has happened in this case. The story of the picture begins with a tame and stolen romance between the son of a family and the ward. There is a secret marriage which as usual is not allowed by the parent who has his own ideas of getting the son married for money. Very soon the girl becomes an outcast and takes to a life of crime in rather a fashionable way and from now onwards the screen play becomes an ordinary detective yarn with a hundred time-worn situations playing their turn faithfully. The whole affair is too tame to deserve special mention.
Language: (Hindi) (By M. R. Kapur).
The dialogues happen to be good in certain situations and not too forcible in others. The songs are silly.
Music: (By Anil Biswas).
The tunes of song No. 1 and 6 are good. The rest are apologetic. The background music is foolish and unsuitable.
Photography: (By Gordhanbhai Patel).
It is surprising to find this clever cameraman giving rather indifferent work for some time past. The photography in this picture is far from enterprising. Some of the outdoors are over exposed. The laboratory work has not at all helped the cameraman. The angles and composition of shots which we found in this picture have been seen before a number of times. The camera work is more disappointing because something big is expected from this cameraman everytime.
Beautiful settings provide an attractive background to a modern story in "300 Days and After" a Sagar
picture now running at the West End Cinema, Bombay.