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FILMINDIA
November, 1940
The first picture was at last on the screen and it became a thundering success.
On the premiere day Sudhir had to stay at home with Arun, as the little boy was a bit unwell. But Bapurao Kapalik chaperoned Surekha through the premiere. The crowds, the applause, the press photographs all seemed to conspire in dubbing Surekha as the star of the year.
She was supremely happy. And during the screening when she saw her scenes with Bapurao, she pressed his hand with a silent understanding.
They shared a sin but how glamorous it was. Surekha was now a real film star.
Bapurao Kapalik was a good businessman. He didn't give Surekha any rest. He started another picture immediately. Surekha was again thrown into a whirl of work. The evenings, of course, were spent with Bapurao himself. Every one
When Motilal wants something, especially from girls, he makes that face. Madhuri knows it too well in "Diwali" a Ran jit picture.
in the world knew it except Sudhir
Patankar.
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Little Arun now became more sick. Surekha couldn't look after him. She
Gee! look at Harold Dunn looking? And Priacilla Lane knows she has hit it with the Far East Executive of Warners. Harold Dunn doesn t seem to remember having met a girl like that in the Far East, far and
wide though it is.
had work in the studio. She asked Sudhir to keep a nurse. But the child remembered the mother. Unfortunately as Surekha thought, she couldn't spare the time. The studio had put up one big setting after another and how could she put Bapurao Kapalik into a loss. Bapurao would lose five hundred rupees a day. Doctors and nurses were summoned. All the help that money
could buy was given. But the child becams worse. He developed doublepneumonia. He cried for his mother, he wanted his mother. Perhaps she wculd have saved him. Faith and love have saved many a human being.
Sudhir insisted, as sternly as he could, on Surekha staying at home one day when the child was in a critical state. But Bapurao Kapalik had constructed the most spectacular setting of the picture in which Surekha had to dance that day. It
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