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October 1942
FILMINDIA
crazy angles used to accentuate effects. This technique is now obsolete and is not found even in Russian pictures where it originated. These crazy shots divorce reality from the drama and the audience suddenly becomes camera conscious. The best camera work is the one that is not felt by the audience and a cameraman should never permit himself to use these technical jerks which take the audience away from the story — be it even for a moment.
The scund recording is far from satisfactory and at places the shrill, metallic sounds contribute to the morbid atmosphere of the story.
I would not like to see "Roti" again, nor pictures like "Roti" on the Indian screen.
And yet my heart goes out in brotherly sympathy to Mehboob who had given us brilliant pictures like "Woman", "Watan" and "JaPramilla is fast improving and she reaches the top in "Basant", a picture of girdar" in the past and I hope he
will make up for this lapse by giving us seme brilliant work in future. One failure does not necessarily condemn a good director. The defects of "Roti ' are principally due to the writers round Mehboob who could have made the picture more logical and human, had they only strived.
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unconvincing and bitter experiences Balam and Kinari escape from the city with their buffaloes.
Laxmidas, on the other hand, fails to land the goods in a speculation and escapes with his gold and Darling in a motor car.
Both the parties meet on a sand desert, which comes into the picture for the first time, and there, though Balam is prepared to share his water-bag with Laxmidas, it is refused and both Laxmidas and Darling die in the desert. Though, I can't understand why Darling should be made to pay the extreme penalty when all throughout the story she keeps on being good.
Does the story suggest that we should all go to Hcodooland and live like Balam and Kinari? Tf not, then why was Darling killed?
Seeing "Roti". one is forced to the unpleasant conclusion that Mehboob has bungled badly as a director. He is generally good for action pictures in costumes, but he shouldn't pretend to handle themes which demand philosophical flights and psychological subtleties for proper interpretation on the screen.
No one gives a really gcod performance in the picture including
the great Chandramohan. Sitara strikes some pleasant spots a couple of times when dancing. And that is all the entertainment the picture has pretensions to.
The photography is quite good throughout, but for some of the
Protima always liked little trinkets and she is quite thrilled when Kishore presents one to her in "Kunwara Bap", an Acharya Art picture.
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