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JR REVIEW
Ranjit Shows Monkey Tricks On The Screen
Jai Hanuman" Becomes Popular Draw!
oardar Chandulal Shah, on his ren from Geneva where he repreted the Indian film industry at International Conference on the kedom of Information, talked a id deal ahout the pictures he had In in some European towns and lared. for the umpteenth time, his n intention of producing progressand purposeful pictures. YA hat 1 has really produced, however, jr all this tall talk is a mythololal picture from the "Ramayana". |i treasure house which has supled innumerahle themes to Indian Iducers all along the thirty-five Irs that they have been making picles. So many stories from this epic me been j)resented on the screen It one exj>ects all the human diapers in it to ha\e been exhausted. Idit is. therefore, due to ChanduI Shah for choosing a subject with |ionkev as the hero of his new picIt may. perhaps, be an indica1 of the progressive and purposepictures that are to come from Ranjit studios in future.
"he novelty of Han jit's "Jai Hanan" lies in the fact that while far in many of the Kan jit pictures
"J AI HANUMAN"
Producers: Shree Ranjit Movietone
Hindi
Language: Story, Dialogue
and Songs: Screenplay:
Pandit Indra
Ramchandra Thakur
Bulo C Rani
Photography: D. K. Ambre
Sound: Mohan Dadheech
( ;i~t: Nirupa Roy, P. Kaila-.
Ke-hav Puroliit. >. \. Tripathi. Babu Raje. etc.
Released At: Majestic, Bombay Date of Release: 18th September, 1948
Directed Bv : i: KMCB V\DR \ THAKUR
human beings acted like monkeys, in this one we find monkeys acting like human beings. They, of course, have the monkey s face and the tail, but otherwise they are perfectly hu
dini Jaywanl and Nargis Beem i<> be in l<ยป\c with the same hoy in "Anokha Pyar", produced by Ambica Film-.
Ramchandra Thakur, an M.A. of Pali and Sanskrit, is one of the few intellectuals found in the Indian film industry. Hi approach to work is as thorough a hi scholastic attainment-. He make even "Jai Hanuman", a picture worth seeing.
man in their behaviour, but because of the mask the men behind do not get a chance to maintain Ran jit's usual traditions in acting.
RAM AY AN A RETOLD
Pandit Indra deserves credit for being admirably loyal to the original epic of Yalmiki which he had only to copv but we are grateful to him for not changing our monkey-god into a king-kong.
In Valmiki's "Ramayana", An j ana, the mother of Hanuman. is described as the w ife of Kesari. a great and powerful monkey-king. Vi bile strolling about in human form. Vayu. the god of air. fell in love with her. Driven by passion. Vayu planted his seed in one of the ears of Anjana. says the epic, and the result was Hanuman. a monkey with the stren gth and valour of a giant unequalled by any other creation of nature.
The little Hanuman seeing the rising sun. one day. mistook it for a fruit and rushed to swallow it. He could not reach the sun. however, and w as throw n dow n by Indra I not the present story writer, but the King of gods I and in that fall he broke his chin which gave him the name of Hanuman (one with a broken chin).
In the present film story Anjana is shown as a princess of some unknown kingdom, playing in a garden with her maids and singing a suggestive love song. A strong breeze of
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