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November 1942
FILM INDIA
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quarrel over the child and the w f e leaves home to return to her mother.
Now Gunvantrai opens out another bundle of tricks and Chandni meets her village twin in the train, traveling towards the city. Devi, the village girl, is shown as so much stunned with the finery of Chandni that she agrees to exchange clothes with her on philosophic grounds. And yet Devi is a school teacher, expected to have some balance of mind, and is travelling towards the city all alone.
The change of costumes makes one girl seem like the ether and we are asked to believe that the reactions of the world towards them change w.'th the costumes. Not only that but the waiting husbands at the stations take the wrong women Since "Khazanchi" came to the screen, girls have started beating the drum h°me as their wives, in ail pictures. Here is Vasanti at the game in "Dukh-Sukh", a Ranjit vVe enly hope that some day Gunvantrai does not commit this mistake himself dur ng a period of absent mindedness often associated with writers.
Chandni struggles hard in the grip of Nathu Pate! and after being declared slightly mad agrees to go
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poor section is represented by Devi, an angel, her husband Nathu Patel and Chanchala the widowed sister of Nathu. The husband is unemployed and Devi, the wife, is the village school teacher.
The rich section is represented by Vasant, a rich widower, who walks through fcur large rooms before he turns round once; Baby his motherless child who helplessly cr'es for a mother when a sick situation demands it but dances vigorously to prove herself an art prodigy Rasila. the married sister of Va-ant and Kant lal, her husband.
The rich section is completed by Chandni an educated, sophisticated wealthy girl who believes in the modern girl hav'ng the four freedoms.
THE ROMANTIC MIX-UP
Somehow in the most unconvincing way the writer brings about an alliance between Chandni and Vasant and they are married insp'te of all the conditions imposed by Chandni to maintain her four freedoms.
After marriage Chandni does not allow her husband to come near her for tl t specific purpose for which
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marriages are made, and the hero is shown cooling his ardour on the wet parapet of a fountain in the garden.
Evidently this goes on for days rnd then the husband and the wife
In "Bhakta Surdas", Khurshid brings new charms to the Indian screen. The picture is expected to be a sensational box-office hit.
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