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)UR REVIEW
*Dard" Becomes Complete Washout!
An Idiotic And Boring Picture!
'robably in keeping with the lilently acknowledged policy of the Muslim producers to cash opportunity as fast as possihle and as long is the going is good between India ind Pakistan, this latest picture of <ardar seems to have been produced ivith the least imagination, expense Ind energy.
"Dard" has not even a single hash of the art of Kardar which Ivas so beautifully presented in his 'Shah Jehan". At best "Dard" is cheap picture, produced in a slipshod manner, and has in con-equBnce become intensely boring right jpto the end.
GLIMPSE OF PAKISTAN
The story of the picture is the isual boy-meets-girl love triangle Erich has appeared on the screen Several times.
The opening scene of the picture live a small glimpse of Pakistan With thousands of crescent flags decorating the gathering at a Muslim orphanage. where every orphan wears a Jinnah cap and strangeh Bough claims to be an orphan. How could a Muslim ever be an orphan with the Jinnah cap on his
head? Kardar surely hurts the susceptibilities of the Muslims in insisting on saying so.
A benevolent Nawab Sahib I played by Badri Prasad, strangely enough the only Hindu in the prominent cast I presides over the gathering and picks up Iqbal. an orphan for adoption and takes him home.
[qbal soon grows in the company of Surraiya. the Nawab's only daughter, and becomes a doctor. Surraiya. of course, loves Dr. Iqbal I not the dead poet of Punjabi anci provides Kardar with the first angle of the love triangle. Rut Dr. [qbal is not interested in Surraiya and that completes the second angle in the triangle.
To find the third angle, a plague is created in one of the villages ot Nawab Sahib and a doctor is badly needed for the usually dangerous mission of killing rats and saving human beings. earing Dr. Kotnis's martvr-likc mask lor rather Shantaram s version of it I Dr. Iqbal goes to the village to fall in love with the local village belle (just as Dr. Kotnis did with a Chinese girl I
A genius in hi* field Bismillakhan, India's best slieimai plaver gives a few musical bit in "Kinara" produced by New India Tbeatre*.
DARD
Producers: Kardar Productions Language: Irdu Story: K. A. Jaffri
Sofi2<: Shakil Badayuni
Music: Nan-had Cast: Munawar Sultana, Nusrat Husn Bano, Badri Prasad, Surraiya etc. Released At: Novelty. Bombay Date of Relea.-e: 8th October 1948 Directed By A. R. KARDAR
and saves Hamida's father from the rat.
THE MURDEROUS MUSLIM
Rut Kardar. who was himself an enterprising lover, knows that love must not have a smooth passage even in a rat-infested village. So. one Mr. Dilawar. a local stud bull, is shown in love with Hamida. Dilawar dislikes the doctor taking love treatment from Hamida and he begins to blackmail Iqbal. At this stage Dilawar demands ten thousand rupees from Dr. Iqbal to keep the medico s romance a secret from Nawab Sahib. Dr. Iqbal. who had never shown any guts from childhood and who is always portrayed w ith an orphan's inferiority-complex, gives the diamond ring, which was Surraiva s present, to Dilawar as the price of silence.
Now Dr. Iqbal himself' caiches the rat and is carried back to the fit \ in an ambulance. The lovers are thus torn apart and the usual pathetic opportunity for some sad songs is created. Hamida obliges with a couple of bad and sad songs.
Willi the doctor's horizontal exit from the romantic field. Dilawar plays his cards. He gives Dr. Iqbal's ring to Hamida. saying that the doctor had left it for her but instead of waiting to see the progress of events as a result of this strategy, he takes a knife and buries it deep in the chest of Hamida s father and send him to heaven to feast with the "boors" that are always kept waiting for every dead Muslim.
HULLO. CENSORS! Murder is evidently a Muslim method of prosecuting love, as Kardar tells us. and the murderer does not even get any punishment. The Nawab Sahib seems to accept the murder of a good man as a common event and without even investigating
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