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OUR REVIEW
'Ranee' Prouides Another Disappointment !
When Will Barua Stop Acting ?
Jamuna Provides Saving Grace I
This is another Barua picture. It is certainly better than 'Jawab', because it has a better story and a better theme.
But as the story unfolds itself on the screen, one feels like pitying Producer-director-actor Barua who makes a complete fool of himself in whatever capacity one looks at him.
Barua's work as a director has degenerated beyond recognition Through both the pictures, 'Jawab' and 'Ranee', we fail to find any traces of the old-time genius of Barua which gave us startlingly great pictures like 'Devdas', 'Adhikar' etc. Unless Barua reclaims himself, and quickly, he will soon join the ranks of the tin-pot thirdrate directors whom we find in such large numbers in our film industry.
That will be a bad day for our film industry, which, as it is, claims very few intellectuals on the production side.
The story, as we have said before is basically good. It could have made a forceful motion picture with a more imaginative film script. But
RANEE
Producers: Barua Productions Language: Hindustani Scenario and Photography:
P. C Barua Audiography: J. D. Irani
Music: Kamal Das Gupta
Songs: Pandit Madhur
Cast: P. C. Barua, Jamuna, Jahar Ganguly, Kalavati, etc.
Released At: Super, Bombay. Date of Release: 4th June 1943
Director: P. C. BARUA
he script seems to have been writen by the present-day Barua and he story development has become
Motilal seems to be an inquisitive fellow the way he annoys sweet Anjali Devi in "Age Kadam" a social story of Acharya Art Productioyis.
This is "young and handsome" Barua, the hero of "Ranee".
erratic, illogical and unemotional at several places.
VICTIM OF GOSSIP
Malti, a village maiden, on the eve of her wedding becomes the victim of vile gossip-mongers. She is called unchaste and other names and is consequently ostracized by her society. She runs away giving the impression of having committed suicide and reappears as Ranee, a maid servant in a city hotel.
At this city hotel arrives Raj, described in the film booklet as 'the young and handsome brother of the village Zamindar'. When you look at Barua in this role with his bloated face, broad ugly nostrils, tiny blinking eyes, frail and rickety figure crowned with a silly cap, the 'young and handsome' description helps to create a downright derision in the mind of the spectators.
Barua seems to be a living negation of all our ideals in motion picture heroes.
Does Barua think himself to be so handsome that picture after picture he can intrude on us as the hero of his stories? And are we to take it that all sweet maidens in the story fall headlong in love with him because he is 'young and handsome' according to his strictly own private standards?
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