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October 1942
FILMINDIA
Gulam Mahomed and Ibrahim create thrilling melcdrcma in "Khan Daan",
a Pancholi picture.
destiny, manages to stray into the in the direction of the sound given pala~e gardens. The gardens were by Meera. Meera still does no. not guarded and evidently any one realise that the Prince is blind becould enter them without a challenge.
True to expectation, and that is one thing about Kedar Sharma who never lets you down, being a very reliable person, the blind Prince is standing in the garden fully-dressed for dinner and, for a moment, every one takes him for one of the marble statues which one so often sees in our city parks.
One canno: understand why in his own garden, the Prince and a blind person at that, should be dinnerdraped. Don't we go into a garden to relax?
Here is the moment where the blind hero meets his beautiful heroine for the first time. A beautiful conception no doubt — But how is it expressed in the picture?
The heroine had previously seen her hero with his sigh intact. She is already deeply in love with him. When she enters the garden she still thinks that he is perfectly normal. [She tries to attract his attention. He is attracted and turns his face
cause for all photographic purposes his eyes look perfect. A moment later the Prince drcps his stick and begins to grope for it. And now Meera realises that the Prince is blind. She restores the stick and looks at him sweetly and tenderly, as if blindness is a boon to a human being.
May we know whether our near ones would react so mildly if one of their beloved suddenly lost sight? Kedar Sharma has exercised a to* of mental restraint in spots where the human mind should have burst out into a torrent of emotions.
However, the heroine is quickly reconciled to the fact of her hero being a blind man and now begins a rcmantic interlude between the blind hero, who, though he can't see, yet feels the beauty of Meera. and the heroine.
The romance progresses much to the dislike of the villainous Dewan who teases the old king into separating the lovers. The Prince is packed off and Meera is heartbroken.
THE SADHU EPISODE
Meera's condition makes her father desperate and he raves and
At the "Muhurat ' ceremony of "Ishara", the maiden production of D. R. D. Productions, they all obliged us with a photograph. From left to right: Prithviraj, Director Nanda. Producer D. R. D. Wad:a, Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall, Jagdish Sethi. In the foregrou id is Suraiya the heroine of the story.
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