FilmIndia (1940)

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FILMlNDIA October 1940 Durga Khote and Vishnupant Pagnis carry "Narsi Bhagat" to success on their shoulders. PRABHAT FILM CO. All eyes on "Padosi". That is the anxious desire of the million Prabhat fans. And realising this, everyone in the studio is all there on the picture. "Padosi" will not be ready for the Diwali but it will come imme 5 diately after, bringing another festival in the city. The constant trips of the writers of "Omar Khayyam" to Poona and their long discussions with Shantaram suggest a final polishing up of the story. The man very busy on this picture at present is Syed Fatehlal the famous art-director of Prabhat whose thousand and one sketches are a marvel to see. In wealth of colour "Omar Khayyam" is certainly going to be a picture India has not produced so far. WADIA MOVIETONE Jamshed Wadia, Madhu Bose and even Sadhona Bose and Surendra Desai have been busy concentrating on "Raj Nartaki" the three-language picture of this studio, which is expected to be released in Bombay during the X'mas Holidays. Sadhona, the heroine of the story is reputed to have given a beautiful Radha-Krishna dance, one which tcok the studio fifteen days to shoot. It is a Manipuri version of the famous mythical love-dance and Madhav Menon, Sadhona's partner, is reputed to have taken days to come back to this sordid world of ours — so much was he lost in the supreme ecstasy of the rhythm. A girl who will shoot up to stardom in this picture is a new comer called Protima Das Gupta, who costars with Sadhona in this great picture. She is reported to have eyes that magnetize and grace to rival the hitherto unrivalled grace of Sadhona. But Sadhona. polished and artistic to the finger nail, is a terrific competition to any new comer and every one feels like wishing young Protima every success. PRAKASH PICTURES "Narsi Bhagat" the miracle picture of the year is reported to have achieved a miraculous success at the Krishna Cinema in Bombay. It is drawing stupendous crowds every day and is certainly going to provide a lot of encouragement to its producers for their future production programme. At the studios, with Rose in the lead they are shooting a social Prithviraj and Sadhona Bose create an emotional drama in "Raj Nartaki' a Wadia picture. 56