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FILM INDIA
September 1940
a better and more sincere man than him. And he knows his job. He'll be ten times better than the others to whom an accent of a word is more important than the meaning of what they speak.
COLOURS STILL FLYING
"Bandhan" is not merely a good picture of Bombay Talkies. It is a lot more than that. It is the most convincing evidence of what good training, correct discipline and institutional loyalty can achieve in the film production field.
Its thundering success restores the people's faith in the Bombay Talkies, — faith which for some time the late Himansu Rai had taken away with him. So great was the death of one man, that it had not only shaken the present but shadowed the future with an anxiety too acute to be expressed.
Trade rivals indulged in rash speculations about the future of this concern and rumours of all sorts were set afloat.
The undoubted success of "Bandhan" silenced all and to-day other producers have come to realize that there was method in the madness of the late Mr. Rai when he kept himself scrupulously away from his trade rivals, their associations and petty intrigues and pursued a lone path of silent progress.
His 'boys' in the studio are faithfully following In the footprints of the dead pioneer and it remains to be seen whether Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall will pursue the same old and well tried policy with the trade in general.
Whatever the future, the present is too brilliant not to dazzle the world and the people who represent Bombay Talkies to-day deserve every praise.
WEDDING BELLS!
It is reliably understood that Film-actress Snehaprabha Pradhan will marry Actor-producer Kishore Sahu very shortly. At present both of them are working in the next social picture of Bombay Talkies — probably in the hero-heroine roles.
This must be called a lightning romance seeing that Film-critic Ahmad Abbas, a respected friend of the Pradhan family, introduced Kishore Sahu to Miss Pradhan only a month back.
What a speed! The news, when it came to me, took my breath away. Are we after all going Hollywood? In any case, all the parties concerned deserve congratulations for sheer speed.
I hope Miss Pradhan won't contradict this news
also.
FAILURE OF STARS
The miserable failure of "Chingari" and "Sajni" two Sudama pictures knock the bottom out of the star system of the film business. Sudama Productions seemed to rely a lot on the "star-value" of Sabita Devi and in trying to feature her overwhelmingly in the publicity campaign made the people forget the pictures about which the whole row was.
Sabita's name appeared in bold headlines, while the names of the two pictures were too inconspicuously displayed to catch the eye.
The net result of this stupid publicity campaign was that both the star and the pictures failed and the pathos of both the pictures being transferred to the producers brought tears to their eyes.
Even now, it is not too late for the producers to realize that stars don't pay. There is not one star in India to-day who can be relied upon to pull a weak