FilmIndia (1945)

OUR REVIEW mr. And Mrs. J. B. H. meet To Produce "Piya Milan" \ All -Round Rotten and Boring Show Now. don't get us wrong. We are telling von an industrial secret. It is that Mr. J. 1!. H. Wadia and Mrs. Hilla Wadia are perhaps the most sincere and the most hard-working people in the world. In addition they are serious people whose approach to work is never frivolous. In tact, they are so grave and methodical in their work that friends think that they have no sense of humour even by way of slight relaxation. This serious married couple is now producing motion pictures with the best of pious intentions. They give everything to their motion picture production but in their religious earnestness they forget to put into it intelligence and common sense. Don't get us wrong. We warn you again. The Wadias are very serious people. The only thing that is wrong with them is that they have been suffering from a long delusion that they are intelligent in addition. We have not yet seen a single intelligent picture coming from Jamshec! Wadia. In the past when 'gentle' PIYA MILAN Producers: Wadia Movietone Language: Hindustani Story: Munshi Sham Jilani Screenplay & Dialogue: M. Naseem Lyrics: T. Naqvi, M. Naseem & M. S. Jilani. Photography: A. K. Kadam Audiography: Minoo Tampa! Music: Feroze Nizami Cast: Motilal, Nirmala, Najma etc. Released At: Krishna. Bombay. Date of Release: 22nd Sept. 1945 Director: S. M. Yusuf Produced By: Jamshed B. H. and Mrs. Hilla Wadia Jamsu used to produce Nadia thrillers, no one expected Jamsu s screen to reflect intelligence. But one day Wadia s trademark-ship brought to the screen a different cargo and the film industry was shocked to discover that gentle Jamsu had turned a new Recruit Mazhar Ali Sheriff c o Hyderabad Co-op. Central Trading Society, Hyderabad, Deccan, is just 22 and stands over 5"-7i". He knows Urdu well and wants to try his talent on the screen. Saigat, our singing idol, becomes a doctor in "Tadbeer" directed by Jayant Desai. a social subject leaf and had started chasing quality and purpose in motion picture production. M.A., LL.B., M.B.E., with files of Documentary News Letter. ex-Chairman of the F.A.B., ex-President of the Producers' Association, friend of M. N. Roy and what not, gentle Jamsu with more gentle Hilla, together gave a splendid promise of becoming future pillars of our industry. The last picture we remember of these intellectuals was "Bhakta Bodana", the story of a dacoit who went goofy over a god. The picture not only broke gentle Jamsu's bank but also broke the hearts of all his friends. The spectators went away in desperate disappointment from the dacoit and devotee that was presented on the screen. Hopes now were centred in "Piya Milan", a beautiful name for the most rotten story ever presented on the Indian screen. Never before in the history of motion pictures in India has such bankruptcy of brain been shown as stands revealed in the 11 thousand feet of 'Piya Milan", perhaps the most putrid picture, a producer ever had the courage to project on the screen "Piya Milan" is the most unpardonable waste of good celluloid by a man, who as an important executive of the film industry, should have realised the stern necessity of conserving the raw stocks of the country during the war years. "Piya Milan" defies the English language. It is a picture that gives constant physical pain from the head 71