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March 1942
FILMINDIA
Here is a beautiful situation from "Masoom". With all that before her Anis
can't eat.
One, however, misses .the resolve of Bharat to enter the fire if Shri Ram fails to return on the appointed day. The popular story is that on the last day, in his unbearable impatience and agony for meeting Shri Ram. Bharat decides to enter fire and destroy himself and when he is on the point of doing so, Shri Ram appears.
This incident has some rare drama in it and it would have become a fitting ending to the present picture.
And yet inspite of some extraneous matter, which has been allowed to creep into the story and which only tends to make some parts move more slowly than expected, the film story, becomes a vivid document of praiseworthy emotions and as such provides a beaconlight of philosophic guidance to the devotionaily minded millions in India.
MATURE DIRECTION
The direction of Mr. Vijay Bhatt is more mature in this picture than in the previous one. Though several climaxes are treated in rather a sketchy way, particularly those scenes of intense emotions between Dasharath and Kaikayee and between Kaikayee and Bharat. yet, viewed as a whole, the picture could
be said tc have received suitable direction, considering the mythological limitations of the subject.
In future, however, this director would do well to visualise his scenes
in a more imaginative and elaborate way in tune with the psychological demands of the different situations. It would be a good plan to get the shooting script thoroughly criticised in advance by eminent persons before departing on a lavish production.
"Bharat Milap" is an expensive production and luxuriously so, seeing the eye-full settings which form a resplendent background for the numerous characters in the story.
The entire show is rich in the extreme and it just escapes being magnificently spectacular.
The huge artistic settings however, keep crying for more background lighting. In several long shots, the details of the architectural beauty are completely lost for want of sufficient lighting. Barring this, the entire photography is quite in keeping with the demands of the picture. ,
DURGA SMASHES THROUGH
Coming to the performances, Durga Khote steals the picture without the slightest opposition from anyone. In her portrayal of Kaika
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The two ends of 'Roti". the primitive and the sophisticated. Chandramohan hasn't called Sheikh Mukhtar for leg massage, we must therefor? take this as an emotional situation oj Director Mehboob.
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