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OUR REVIEW
Chowdhary's Brilliant Gome-Back !
"Ankh Michowli" Draws Huge Crowds !
Nalini Slaps Baburao Patel !
It was a thrilling experience to see Director Chowdhary's picture after a very long time. This excellent director, who had once shadowed the Indian film industry so completely, was going through a long spell of bad luck and we had not the good fortune to get any pictures from him.
To Seth Chimanlal Desai, the Amar Chief, we owe our thanks for providing the old master with one more opportunity to prove once again to the world that an old, experienced director is still a better investment than the crowd of amateur directors who are at present undermining the stability of our industry by turning out half-baked sausages, which some weekly film rags insist on calling pictures.
"Ankh Michowli", the first of Chowdhary after his long penance.
ANKH MICHOWLI
Producers: Amar Pictures Language: Hindusthani Story, scenario and
dialogues: Chowdhari Songs: Pandit Indra
Cinematography: Rajnikant Pandya Chandrakant Pandya Jnan Dutt Nalini Jaywant, Sulochana, Jilloo. A. P. Kapar, Satish Nagendra Mujumdar, etc. Released At: Imperial
Cinema. Bombay. Date of Release: 4th July 1942 Director CHOWDHARY
Recorded on R.C.A. Sound System
Audiography:
Music: Cast:
Seems to be a touching situation from "Ek-Raat" the maiden social of
Shalimar Pictures.
Pandit Ramashankar Chowdhary who comes back with a triumph in "Ankh Michowli".
has become an excellent picture for many reasons.
THEME OF PARENTAL LOVE
The story, which is rather too elaborately portrayed, has a popular theme of parental love.
Radha, the dutiful wife of Sir Chuni Lall Sinha, a wealthy Zamindar, is estranged from her husband, because Sir Chuni Lall is involved in an affair with Sona, a singing girl.
Radha leaves for her native village taking with her little Ekadashi. Years pass and Sir Chuni Lall is full of remorse and is making an attempt to trace his daughter Ekadashi.
While Radha, nursing her secret of estrangement from her husband, earns a living by sewing and stitching and manages to bring up Ekadashi to beautiful maidenhood.
And here Chowdhary starts his story by introducing a number of typical characters who would most naturally be interested in the orphan beauty of Ekadashi. The point which the writer tries to bring home with great pains is the utter helplessness of those who have to live on the goodwill of others and in doing so keep their head above the sinking level in shark infested waters.
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