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August 1938
FILMINDIA
The continuity is jerky and badly suffers from disharmony of thought. The shots, however, become stale and sketchy. The scenario badly needed a revision by a more experienced person.
Language: (Hindi). The dialogues are pretty good with a couple ot intelligent passages. At places, however, they are suggestive and too light.
Music: (By Anil Biswas). It was a relief to find a picture having less songs. The tunes of songs No. 2 and 4 though light are still popular. The rest of the music is not much to speak of. The composition of the verses is silly and unintelligent.
Photography: (By Faredoon Irani). Quite good. The back projection shots are successful where the hero and his companions are shown motoring. In case of the shots of the waterfalls, the camera seems to have been unsteady and this experiment with back projection is not so successful. All this, however, shows enterprise.
Recording: (By ChandraJcant Pandya). Tolerably good.
Direction: (By Mehboob). Quite enterprising and decent. Mr. Mehboob, however, seems to have missed the spirit of the story and made the whole picture a light affair. Straight shooting has been done throughout by the director, missing the all important psychological angle.
Performance: Motilal has given an excellent performance. His diction, actions and poise are beautiful. He is quite at home through every foot of the picture.
The pity, however, is that this man has lost all his facial charms for picture making and looks definitely ugly. Inspite of previous comments made by me the director has shot him in close-ups and semi-close-ups, thereby adding to
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the ugliness of the features. It is unfortunate that Motilal's inimitable work should be compromised by this aspect. Rose has given a pathetic and exciting perform
anceBarring Motilal, she eclipses everyone, with her good work. Her singing voice is also sweet to hear, though her face and flat nose do not wake up romance in the spectators. Maya was again tiresome, having given her stereotyped performance with jerky actions. Her dialogues have become awful to hear. It is heart rending to find this fire-fly of Sagar not taking pains over her dialogues and diction.
Yakub as Rajgir, is quite good, though he has not much to do. Harish, the new find is utterly hopeless. He has neither the face nor the voice to become a screen actor. His appearance on the screen is most revolting and remains one of someone-else working in the Bombay Talkies.
Sankata is stagy and crude throughout his performance. In a modern suit, he looks like an ancient misfit. Sunalini Devi could not have worked in a better role than in that of a sister of mercy in a mission hospital. She looks a missionary every inch. Her Urdu dialogues were pleasant to hear, being correctly spoken with the exact tone that makes Urdu a pleasant language.
Diamond Newby gave a beautiful Indianized dance, but it was a pity that it was too short. The director should have given it a little more footage.
Box-otlice Value: There is certainly entertainment in the picture for those people who do not demand a big fare in theme and logic. The picture will run well because of the Sagar trade name.
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