FilmIndia (1948)

FILMINDI A Once on the bike, the stranger bursts into a suggestive love song straightaway. Sheela takes up the refrain and both of them, like intimate friends of old, sing all the way. The girl wants to be dropped outside the village as she doesn't want to be seen with the stranger by the village people. She is thus already conscious of her wrong act in chumming up with a stranger so fast. The man is Mohan Chandra, an R.I.A.F. officer on leave. Next day Sheela is taken to the town by Girdhar to a fair where Mohan Chandra performs some acrobatics— the only thing we see in the fair! The demonstration over. Girdhar. a guileless and simple-hearted man. introduces Sheela to Mohan Chandra but both pretend to be strangers in the presence of Girdhar. Sharar-like. Girdhar soon slips away obviously to meet some relative leaving Sheela and Mohan alone. Mohan advises Sheela to fabricate a lie to avoid Girdhar and meet him at a rendezvous on the pretext of meeting her aunt in the town. The tryst is kept and Girdhar is shown as boozing his heart out at a "bhang" shop waiting for Sheela to return. Later in the evening, to lend an opportunity to the base sin in view, the writer puts Girdhar's car out of repair and puts Sheela once again on the pillion of Mohan's motor bike to sing another duet of suggestive love. This homeward journey is lighted up by a full moon, the ever-smiling incentive of all lovers and Sheela asks Mohan to stop the bike near a bush on the deserted country field. And here what Dewan Sharar calls Sheela's mistake, but what actually is her sin, is committed without even the slightest resistance from her. aye, even with her absolute consent. Behind a technical film dissolve is hidden the world's greatest sin and we soon see Sheela with dishevelled hair brushing off the dry leaves of the field with langour on her face suggesting a long and exhausting sexact. They mutter a few words of repentance but soon get on the bike again. The scene reminds one of a similar incident in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", but Dewan Sharar s Sheela sinks into unspeakable contempt when compared with Hardy's Tess. Tess had persistently 46 rejected all advances from Alec. She, in fact, hated him and it was only because she had lost her way back home from the fair that she accepts his offer for a ride on his horse. The evil-minded Alec then purposely goes December, 1948 the wrong way, thus exhausting th< girl physically and rapes her in ai almost unconscious condition. Whili in "BhooF" Sheela gives herself up tc Mohan like a low woman itching fo men's company and sexual intimacy International Sewly Arrived... accuracy is essential in any watch — and "International" watches have always led in this respect' — but to combine it with elegance of design, takes the life-long experience of skilled craftsmanship. That is why you wifl always be glad you chose an International Watch. Stylish design for all occasions in 18-carat solid gold case, with hands and figures raised in gold. No. 7697. Rs. 678. Similar model with plaindial Rs. 616. Popular size man's watch m stainless steel case. No. 7433. Rs. 282. Sturdily built watch in stainless steel case. No. 7443. Rs. 300. FA VRE-LEUBA FAVRE LEUBA & CO., LTD. BOMBAYCALC UTTA