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FILMINDIA
May 1942
Scene after scene, the director has failed to provide even the slightest intellectual relief and therefore the picture becomes an utterly stupid affair.
The photography of the picture is good in parts, particularly the outdoors, while the sound recording of the songs is utterly amateurish. Music is unenterprising, both sung and background, and does not please at any stage, while the song compositions while betraying a lack of phonetic words, provide poor evidence of poetry.
HOPELESS PERFORMANCES
Among the artistes, the only other person, besides Kanaiyalal who could be said to have given a tolerably good performance, is Satish in the role of Gopal, the pal of the hero. In a light-hearted portrayal, he excites some laughter which partially compensates for the utter boredom which the picture inflicts on the audience.
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Kaniz and Umakant in "Adhar" a social story of Gita Pictures.
Nalini Jaywant as the Cindrella heroine shows a very slight improvement on her previous failures. But her romantic interludes with the hero remain unconvincing throughout.
Mukesh, a new youngster, makes his bow before the public as Narendra, the hero. After seeing what he has done throughout the picture, one wishes he had not come to the screen. I would advise the young man to go back to the college.
Mrs. Marathe as "Chanchala", a society butterfly in love with the hero, is another rank failure. What is she doing on the Indian screen? She is another one who should go back to home-keeping.
Nilkanth Tewari, the song writer, acts a poet in the picture and in doing so gives some disgusting farce. Had he acted the madman, his present performance could have been more suitable.
That leaves Kanaiyalal in the role of Shadilal, the Government pensioner. Whatever Kanaiyalal does has "excellent" stamped on it and so is his performance in "Nirdosh". The inclusion of Kanaiyalal in an useless story like this constitutes an insult not only to that incomparable artiste but also to his fans.
That is "Nirdosh" in short, a picture not worth the trouble of production or for that matter of seeing.
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