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Who says
"LIFE S FOR LIVING" ?
THE OTHER SIDE OF PRABHAT'S "ADMI
A POSER FOR DIRECTOR SHANTARAM By Miss Sharda Ramkrishna
The reader may think me to be a little crazy to fling such a straight question in the face of one of India's greatest film producers. But with due regard for Mr. Shantaram's talent and genius, I must confess that I have failed to understand him in respect of his "Admi". I have seen the picture over and over again, and still Mr. Shantaram's philosophy is a closed box to me. Why does he term it. ."Life's for Living''? Would it not have been more appropriate to entitle it as.. "Life is not for Living?", .or perhaps. ."Life is for Dying"; or at least something like "LIFE IS FOR ENJOYING ON A WOMAN'S SACRIFICE"?. .And if Mr. Shantaram still persists in holding that.. "Life is for Living", then at any rate it seems, "Life is for Living a COWARDLY Life"...
WEAK CHARACTERS OF "ADMI"
Ganpat, the Policeman No. 255 and the harlot Maina are both weak characters who lack self-determina
Ganpat offering Maina some money but. ...
tion and are unsettled about their conduct of life. Maina, due to circumstances we are not told has fallen into the trade of a prostitute. . o harlot. And she carries out her profession of constant sin against society with that comfort and ease which smack of professional efficiency. But deep within the folds of her woman's heart are laid the ideals of a decent life. These ideals spring into hopes, and by a strange trick of fate she meets Ganpat, the policeman who offers to take her away with him. Maina who has been waiting for a chance bids 'adieu' to her trade and takes up her lodgings in a room hired by Ganpat.
POLICEMAN NO. 255
The weakness of policeman No. 255 begins to be conspicuous right from here. He feels ashamed to come to the chawl during daytime and then he avoids coming there altogether for a few days just be
cause his uncle happens to live in the same chawl. His weakness unnerves Maina and the hotelboy suggests a return to her former trade. But she refuses
Vishnupant Pagnis plays yet another role of a saint in "Narsi Bhagaf a Prakash picture.
However sinful her trade might b*1. Maina was as happy as a lark. She sang and she danced and she lived on hopes and ideals. And if Ganpat drew her out of it, he should have stood by her regardless of the fear of social censure. That Maina was a prostitute was no news to him.... he was quite aware of her profession, and mindful of it he pulls her out. And still he displays a height of cowardice when he not only refuses to take Maina away with him to the fields but says that "I am a man (Manoos) what will the people say.'' If he had to mind what the "people would say", he should not have undertaken to reform a lady of the type of Maina.
THE HOTEL-BOY S TRAGEDY
Perhaps the only person who saw deep into the lives of both. Maim and Ganpat, is the Hotel-boy the popular "bahar-walla". He saw at
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