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FILMIKDIA
August 1938
I hope that the personnel of the Committee would be soon overhauled and better men with greater artistic leanings appointed if the awards are ever to get a national status. Why not appoint a committee of leading citizens and judge the awards by the process of elimination.
If Gohar's glorious reputation as an artiste is to be perpetuated let it be done intelligently by men who are qualified to do so.
The present method is merely slipshod and produces results that make people laugh.
A STORM IN THE TEA CUP!
One of those unfortunate incidents which leave behind a bad odour has been the small quarrel between the Prabhat Film Company and the General Films Ltd. The pity of it is that it was all over an actor who only a few months back was an unknown quantity.
To recite the facts in brief, let us remember the hero of "Amar Jyoti": Babasaheb Nandrekar. Prabhat claimed a three years' contract on him and objected to his working with the General Films in "Baghban". In "Chandrarao More" he was however allowed to work with the consent of Prabhat. But not so in "Baghban".
From sighs and whispers, affairs developed into threats and war, till matters reached a conclusion in the High Court of Bombay on the 14th July 1938.
Prabhat's as plaintiffs prayed for an injunction against General Films as defendants to restrain the defendants from releasing "Baghban" on the 16th July at the Imperial
After three days' heartburning and talk by counsels and others of both the sides, the Hon. Justice Engineer refused injunction and dismissed the notice of motion with costs. It was one of the most impartial and conclusive judgments I had ever heard.
From the very beginning the whole affair was silly, looking at it from a strictly commercial point of view.
Imagine two good producers quarrelling like school boys for the possession of an actor whose presence or absence would not make any difference in a picture.
Puerile! I should call it. If both the parties did want a fight why didn't they fight it out on the bigger field of competition in quality and production of pictures? That would have been something praiseworthy.
T. P. Rajalaxmi and Master Mahalingam in "Nandkumar" a Tamil picture produced by Pragati Pictures Ltd.
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