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FILMINDIA
August 1940
"Oh, go on, get off" says MEENAXI to WINAYAK in "Lapandav". WINAYAK seems to be used to getting what he wants
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and no story can hp complete without it. No amount of 'histrionic display will put a picture through if it lacks the essentials of the true drama — no amount of stage dialogue will carry the audience if it does not help in the development of the plot based again on proper dramatic lines. In every successful motion picture therefore it is safe to assume that there is always some sort of drama that has helped it through. If then the drama is so essential to success is it not the duty of every one engaged upon the picture to give his best towards the development of this important feature.
GOOD TECHNIQUE CONTRIBUTES TO THE DRAMA
And here we come to the second most important contribution of technique to the success of the motion picture. We hold that u dramatically photographed production in the appropriate settings and with the proper sound effects will definitely enhance the value of any picture. Besides its original purpose of mere reproduction, technique must and often does help the director in the development of his drama. If he fails to take advantage of these aids, this particular di' ector has failed to play his
hand to its best advantage, and tn stress the analogy further, he has allowed his aces to lie idle while he has been wasting his time with inferior cards. Can we blame anyone else for the failure of this director or his producer?
But there will always remain the one undisputed argument that in
spite of what we may have to say. there have been pictures with a very low standard of technical quality that have been great successes at the box-office. Our contention is that these only help to strengthen our argument instead of weakening it. We have always stressed the importance of drama and how every individual effort must be directed towards its development. It is possible that in these pictures the dramatic values have been inherently extremely strong, helped bv factors such as an unusually powerful story, the dialogues, or probably the performances, and these have together contributed the sum total of dramatic requirement for a perfect success.
The amount that could have been contributed technically became therefore superfluous and was therefore not missed. It is possible (and there have been such pictures) where instead of this position being occupied by technique, it has been the performances that have fallen short, and still so great were the contributions by other matters that the pictures became outstanding successes and the weak performances were never missed. But, as we have said before, the perfect motion picture must still require the best of everything including intelligent technique. And that is saying a lot.
VANMALA and BABURAO PANDHARKAR have a moment of worry in "Lapandav" a Navayug picture
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