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FILMINDIA
October 1942
Motilal goes blind in "Arman", a Ranjit picture, and breaks the heart
of Shamim.
A SCIENTIST PRINCE
Coming to Kanwar Saheb, the princeling is shown as a scientist in search of "a ray that would register photographically the effects of pain and pleasure on the human brain". We hope Kanwar Saheb had invented that ray to enable Kedar Sharma to find out the ratio between the pain and the pleasure the audiences went through during "Arman". However, like all great things this was not destined and Kedar Sharma takes us into a phoney laboratory where we are shown some fantastic light flashes to give evidence of scientific research. We are asked to humour the director by believing this to be the true stuff and as we are ourselves in a good humour, we don't mind doing so. We don't even whisper to the neighbour that the whole thing is a pure humbug and that Indian producers should not really make fools of themselves by rushing into scientific regions.
After some time we discover that the scientific laboratory and the research for the fantastic ray have nothing to do with the story proper, beyond finding a scientific excuse for making the hero blind. In one of the experiments, Kanwar Saheb goes blind. He could have obliged
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us in that way by falling from a horseback and getting a severe shaking in the brain. After all, the evidence of the blindness rests solely on a dialogue by a doctor. And as we believed the rest of the dialogues, why not one more from a medical authority?
With the blindness of Kanwar Saheb all the scientific research ends and in the end when he gets his sight back, through a quack's remedy, he gets the heroine and feels that in her he has got "the ray that would register 'automatically' the effects of pain and pleasure on the human brain." That the "scientific research" has nothing to do with the s'.ory whatsoever is clearly shown, and one wonders how Kedar Sharma, of all people, could have allowed his imagination to run loose without the bridle of common sense.
Before going blind, the Kanwar Saheb had, however, commissioned Vyas, the old artist, to decorate the palace hall with murals. Vyas and his daughter Meera travel a hundred miles in a bullock cart and unaware of their patron's sudden blindness arrive at Baldev Garh.
RATHER MILD STUFF
Within a few minutes of their arrival, in fact, immediately after they get down from their cart, Ihe old artist presents his credentials to the sentry and is admitted into the palace, while Meera, the daughter, as if guided by the hand of
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