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September 1940
FILMINDIA
Between Sardar Akhtar and Sitara a lot of drama is made in "Pooja" a National Studios picture.
pected to be complete in the month of Octobr.
SARASWATI CINE TONE
Dadasaheb Torney has just completed "Devi Devyani" a mythological melodrama with Padma Shahgram in the lead.
Miss Shaligram is returning to the screen after a very long time and her lilting music will definitely be the main attraction of the picture.
The next picture to go into shooting is a social comedy called ' The Bridegroom."
PRABHAT FILM CO.
"Padosi" is on the sets with Director Shantaram shooting every day. This picture, probably, has the best story Prabhat has ever produced and with Jaishree, Anis, Mazhar Khan and Jagirdar fitting the roles like good gloves the picture is destined to reach great heights of success.
In between the sets of "Padosi", the shooting of "Sant Sakhu" is going on. This time Prabhat has gone to a woman saint of Maharashtra and let us wait and see whether she also goes to heaven like the others that went before but after giving millions to Prabhat.
"Omar Khayyam" is now an established fact on the production schedule. The story of this Persian subject has been written by Messrs. Baburao Patel and Ahmad Abbas
after an extensive research into the times when the poet-philosopher of Persia lived.
A small unit of cameramen accompanied by two artists has already left for Persia to obtain authentic photographs of old ruins and other archaelogical relics to enable the studio to revive old life as vividly as possible.
It is reported that the dialogues of the picture will be written by a committee of prominent Urdu writers under the supervision of Dr. Syed Abid Husein M.A., Ph.D., the eminent scholar of Urdu who translated the autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Syed Fatehlal, Prabhat's famous art director is busy designing the costumes of the times of Omar Khayyam. Immediately these preparations are over, the picture will go into shooting after "Padosi". Shantaram will direct it.
WADIA MOVIETONE
"Diamond Queen" with Nadia, the fearless, is drawing good houses at the Lamington Talkies, Bombay. The picture has proved a treat to entertainment hunters.
In "Mala", a Prakash picture, Rose is reported to have given a good performance.
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