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OUR REVIEW
Kardar Produces The Best Picture Of Ihe year
"Puja" Becomes A Thundering Success ! Sitara's Sparkling Performance Moves Audiences
With ''Puja", Director A. R. Kardar enters the exclusive coterie of the great directors of India.
As a picture "Puja" is a lovely idyll. Kardar's masterly direction has given this social subject a lyric rhythm which tunes excellently with the emotional design inlaid in the theme.
Though the picture has been i eleased at the tail-end of the year, it is certainly a picture worth waiting a year to see and considering the high standard cf technical efhciency and other production values attained, "Puja" easily becomes the Best Picture of 1940.
In a story, very simple to understand and inspired by "The Old Maid", a Warner picture, Director Kardar has instilled his masterly art with such a deft skill that almost every situation becomes an artistic cameo of transcendent beauty of emotion and execution. Any other ordinary director would have failed ingloriously to give the poetic rhythm which Kardar has given to this otherwise thin story and has made it not only interesting but gripping till the end.
STORY OF TWO SISTERS
Rama and Lachhi are two young sisters. Rama, the elder sister, is in love with Darpan, a young man from the neighbouring village. They m-eet secretly and have many a rtimantic interlude, known only to the younger Lachhi.
The wedding of Darpan and Rama is soon arranged, but in the joy of the settlement Darpan rides back dangerously and meets with a severe accident which gets him bed-ridden. Darpan's father disapproves of the
marriage and intercepts the messages which the boy sends to Rama. With broken bones Darpan is lying at home, unable to do anything about the wedding. On the wedding day the bridegroom is not there and in desperation Rama's mother gets her daughter married to Thakur Balwant Rai who had always been keen on the union. Rama had agreed to the marriage, believing
PUJA
I Producers: National Studios Story and Dialogues: M. Sadiq Songs: K. Shatir Guznavi
Photography: P. G. Kukde Sound: Arora Music: Anil Biswas
Cast: Sardar Akhtar, Sitara, Jyoti, Zahur Raja, Satish, Sankatha etc. Released At: Pathe Cinema Date of Release: 28th Dec. '40
I Director: A. R. KARDAR i
Director A. R. Kardar enters the exclusive coterie of the great directors of India.
Darpan to be a trickster and liar. Darpan, however, manages to reach there on the wedding day and feels that Rama had let him down by outraging his love and trust. He swears a dire vengeance and makes a tryst with Lachhi. Next day m the neighbouring jungle, Darpan outrages the chastity of Lachhi and leaves her, laughing, to face the world.
It is a picture of the four fathers of a new company called "Nishat Productions" at present intended mainly for pictures in Punjabi. From left to right: Mr. A. R. Kardar (producer), Mr. J. K. Nanda (Director), Mr. Babuseth Mamooji (Distributor) and Mr. K. H. Kazi (Distributor).
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