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October 1938
FILM INDIA
Direction: (By Sohrab Modyi. Considerable improvement has been made by the director in this effort of his. Sheila's direction is praiseworthy. Some of the situations, particularly between himself and Leela Chitnis are powerfully portrayed. Mody's directorial effort in this picture should be a forerunner of better pictures in future.
Performances: Sheila gave a pathetic and affectionate performance and incidentally the best one. Her music was sweet while her expression was eloquent and appealing. It was pleasant to find Sohrab restraining himself from his stage habits and giving a natural performance. His performance in this picture was far improved. Leela Chitnis did not make much of an impression. She gave stereotyped actions and did not show any enterprise. Her dialogues sound very affected and are delivered with a 'catch' in the throat. An intelligent artiste. Leela should improve fast.
Publicity: Rather poor and unsuitable.
Box-office Value: Quite good as a problem picture though the scenes of the maimed beggars become slightly depressing. Being rather an unusual picture, it may be booked by the exhibitors.
RAJA GOPICHAND
Produced by: Saraswati Cinetone. Bombay.
Released at: Royal Opera House, Bombay.
Date of Release: 30th July 1938.
Cast: Chandrakant, Londhe, Ratnaprabha. Leela. Usha and Others.
Screen Play: (By Bhal G. Pendharkar). This is an old story which has become popular as a legend all over India. The present screen version is presented in rather a stagy style and more reliance seems to have been placed on the element of melodrama.
Language: (Marathi). The dialogues are beautifully written and immediately attract attention.
Music : (By C. Balaji). Good
and well chosen tunes prove pleasing in the picture.
Photography: (By Purohit and S. P. Shinde^. Quite good throughout and exceptionally good in several shots.
Art Direction (By Bal Gajban. Very clever and beautifully done. Some of the settings and the lighting in the picture could be called admirable work.
Reccrding:
Quite suitable.
(By
Ahluwalia).
Direction: (By Bhal G. Pendharkar). There is not much of a cinematic or pictorial direction in this picture. Actions have been throughout taken in a stagy way, sometimes stressing them to the point of artificiality. The material in the story being small the director has directed a big footage in taking "passings". Couple of scenes, howeve^ are well directed.
Performances: Usha as Ratankunwar has given the best performance backed by superb grace and poise. Ratnaprabha comes off second best, with a sympathetic "portrayal of the queen mother. Leela has surpassed Ratnaprabha
Here is a good shot from "My Son" the next Prabhat picture under production.
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