Filmindia (1941)

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FILMINDIA September 194 Beauty Maya meets Booby Risya, and the lad, taking her at her word for a visitor from Vaikunta, and instinctively reacting to her heady lure, follows her but too willingly. Rains pour down in Risya's train, bringing relief to the stricken country and the grateful king gives his daughter in marriage to Risya, putting him wise to the worldly state of things. The heart-broken Vibhandaka finally reconciles himself to the situation, realising the folly of bringing up a boy under over much restraint. THE TAMIL 'OOMPH' It can be easily seen that the roles of Vibhandaka, Risya and Maya had to be played with the greatest skill and delicacy to put across the story effectively. And the artistes assigned to these main roles have given them distinctive individuality. Vasundhara's portrait of the seductive and decoying Maya does not reveal much hislrionic talent and her accent is simply terrible, but the blitzkrieg of lier body appeal and the broadsides of her eyes, her swaying lips and sex-dripping gestures carry the day. So far as 'Oomph' goes among Tamil stars, she certainly is the goods. IT WILL RAIN MONEY Direction is imaginaiive but uneven, skilful but careless. The director has steered the "sex-plosive" sequences clear of the rocks of obscenity or salaciousness. While he has let in anachronisms by the cartload and fobbed off crude mistakes for grand drama (as where he makes Vibhandaka look from the roadside into the princely riuptial chamber, which is improbable), he doesn't rouse critical hostility, because his direction is unpretentious. The very crude comedy he provides by making a fellow swallow a frog is in very poor form. But he has his eye on the story development most of the time and that is what counts. Like Risya Sringar in the story, the picture "Risya Sringar", inspite of serious and many flaws, will bring rains in its wake — rains of gold, for it has the "chakra" of mass enter-, tainment. From times immemorial almonds are known to contain perfect hairtonic. This essence is now available in its most useful form in NAILA ALMONDOL HAIR OIL Delicately perfumed. NAILA ALMONDOL HAIR OIL will impart fresh loveliness to your hair and will make it long and soft. Its regular use has an extremely cooling effect on the brain — and induces natural sleep when used before retiring. A/so use NAILA Eau-de-Quinine — It penetrates the hair roots, stops falling hair and checks hair turning grey. ''AZALBHOY'S BOMBAY LABORATnoiFS A division of Fazalbhoy Limited 37 Sole D/sir/tutors:— MERCANTILE AGENCY, 16, Apollo Street, BOMBAY. (Agents iianted for unrepresented areas). 5§