FilmIndia (May-Dec 1938)

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FILMINDIA December 1988 look like an unwilling martyr even in a few romantic interludes between the heroine and himself. Kamlesh Kumari as Asha looks hideous. The cameramen have not been kind to her. The personality which she had acquired at the New Theatres has been entirely dissipated. She has however tried her best to act well under the circumstances. Purna Chowdhury as Jairaj, the pilot is not bad. Deb Bala as the mother is good. R. P. Kapoor does not convince. Aruna Devi as Prabha the wife of Jairaj is good in parts. The less said about the rest, the better. Production: The continuity Is amateurish. The treatment is puerile. And the story lacks a motive. The direction is too poor to deserve any mention. Photography and recording are careless and indifferent. The music is a farce. The dialogues are unnecessarily awkward. The songs are badly composed. The only relieving features in the whole mess are some aeroplane sequences. One would like to know what were Messrs. Parry-Davies and Brierly brought to India for if they didn't know their job. It is obvious that what they know is hardly worth knowing. Even a third rate Indian director or a cameraman would have given better results. In 'Hari Kirtan" a supplementary feature with the main picture, the producers have again given an exhibition of their mistake in estimating the public demand. "Hari Kirtan" sounds like an "AlkaSeltzer" advertisement of the Almighty. Points of Appeal: Those rich young men who entertain ambitions in film production should see this picture to know what a mess money can buy without the requisite practical training in picture production. As an entertainment, the whole affair is disgustingly amusing. "POSTMAN" Producers: Sagar Movietone — Directors: Mahendra Thakore and Zia Sarhady — Photography: Rajnikant Pandya — Recording: Patil — Story, Dialogue and Songs: Zia Sarhady — Music: Anil Biswas — Cast: Kumar, Bibbo, Maya, Yakub, Sankatha and others. Released at: Imperial Cinema, Bombay. Date of Release: 5th Nov. 1938. Stretched and slapstick in parts, this picture is nevertheless a good entertainment for everyone. The subject of the story being a bit unusual, it supplies that element of novelty which contributes to the box office. Story: Next time you look at a postman — a good looking one — don't forget that even to him romance can't be denied. Shishir the only son of a once-rich father has to take up work as a postman to meet the necessities of life. This he does under persuasion of his mother and of a friend, but not without expressing his burning desire to possess a motor car of his own someday. The motor car has become the ruling obsession of his life — and even in his rounds as a postman, any street motor car would help him to deliver the letters to the wrong people, till one day he loses an expensive insured letter and finds himself doing a term in jail. And there he meets Vinod the son of a rich father, paying off his own debt to society for kidnapping a girl. With Vinod Glaring at each other like—! Well, well, they are stars! Bibbo and Sabita in "Ladies Only" a Sagar picture. 40