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January 1943
FILMINDIA
Baburao Pendharkar doesn't mind being alone with that sweet charmer — knowing that the dog can't tell others — in "Nagad Narayan" a social
comedy oj New Huns.
wered after a long look into the future — as if that question would some day come out of the past again and haunt the future. Ratan Bai was therefore very reserved when I prodded her to secure a personal story for this interview. Those lips of hers were sealed hiding her usual spontaneous smile. My attempt therefore to find the skeletons in the family cupboard was foiled.
In other respects Ratan is a bold woman. When I asked her, if she liked any director in particular she replied quickly, "Nowadays it has become a fashion to praise Shantaram. 'filmindia' began it and others have turned it into an epidemic. Of course, I do like his pictures because they are good."
Amongst the stars, she loves Devika Rani and Durga Khote, these two she thinks are as good as Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo of Hollywood .
FOND OF A CAT
With Ratan Bai, everything seems to be methodical like her talk. She does not go to the races, does not smoke, does not drink, does not overeat, learns something new every time, keeps slimming every minute
and thinks every half-a-minute. She has a good bank account, has purchased property, invested in life insurance, and yet she earns nearly Rs. 3000| a month.
Her favourite hobby is, according to her, "thinking deeply", for a cou
ple of hours . I wonder about whom — and about what. She likes pets very much and introduced "Lallu" to me — a pretty cat I thought — I think she considers these pets to be more reliable than men, though I wonder why a sweet woman like Ratan should display such a distinctive liking for cats, leaving dogs and the men severely alone.
There is no nonsense about this woman and she seems to be having a pretty well-balanced mind. In her casual talk, she uses all the histrionics she is capable of and there is more drama in her conversation than is found in half a dozen Indian pictures .
Full of energy and optimism, versatile every minute, charming at will, coy under necessity, and firm without provocation, Ratan provides a wonderful example of a self-made woman — out to conquer the world with her two little hands.
Incidentally she is the only woman producer that we have producing a picture with her own resources and brain and telling us in addition that she has already earned forty thousand rupees, as net profits in her very first picture.
Is that not something for the bragging men to think about?
Pathan and Punjabi dresses are coming into vogue and Ashok Kumar becomes a sweet Pathan in "Kismet". Mumtaz Shanti, ofcourse, hopes for the
best from this screen Pathan.
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