FilmIndia (1946)

OUR REVIEW 'Din Raat' Slanders Our Film Industry Good Theme Poisoned By Rotten Interludes I The box-office success which NavLug Chitrapat achieved in "Panna" t-ecently seems to have gone to their liead, seeing that they have thrown fcood taste and discieUoil to the winds fin their recent production "'Din IRaat". I "Din Raat" had a good theme for L motion picture in so far as it related to the natural conflict between la married couple arising out of their pursuit of different vocation-, in life, pn this aspect of the story ' Din Raat" Is quite a good picture and breaks Inew ground in its screen treatment leven though certain punches in the Ipicturc arc unblushingly borrowed ifrom a couple of foreign stories. I What is however dirty in the story are the sequences between a film producer and the female star of his istudio. After seeing these sequences, lone wonders whether our film indusItry is really constituted of such film [producers as shown in "Din Raat". [These sequences constitute a damn "DIN RAAT" Producers: Navayug Chitrapat Ltd. Hindustani Language: Story & Screenplay: Dialogue: Songs: Music: Rov Kinikar Producer W. Z. Ahmed is one of our very few cultured film craftsmen, whose work commands respect from all. Ahmed has a versatile production programme in hand for the year 1946 Abdul Baqui Santokh Nadeem Dada Chandekar Photography: Balwant Dhavale Audiograph): Bal Chavan Cast: Snehaprabha Pradhan, Paresh Banerjee, Sulochana Chatterjee, Vasant Thcngdi, etc. Released At: Krishna, Bombay. Date of Release: 8th Feb. 1946 Directed By: SHOREY DAULTALVI able slander on the Indian film industry which keeps on inviting society girls to take up the film career in larger numbers. After seeing "Din Raat ' no decent girl will be induced to take up the screen as a career because in this picture, produced by a fi'm producer, the most slandered person is the film produce! himsclt who is shown as a drunkard and debauch, taking immoral liberties uuh his main star. Apart from being untrue, these sequences are portrayed in a filthy and malicious manner and do not reflect happily on the business morality of the producers. GOOD BASIC THEME Apart from this dirty stuff, the story of "Din Raat" is quite engaging. Kamala and Lccla arc two educated girls economically independent in life. Kamala. the elder sister, is shown as a practising doctor attached to a hospital while Lccla, the younger one, is shown as a phlegmatic artiste doing film work. Recruit Prem Suman of Lahore has forgotten to give his address. He should have unless he is a postman. He has five years stage experience, stands 5' 8" and is 25 years old. Kamala meets Paresh, the hero, accidentally and both fall in love with each other. Paresh is from the villages where his father Bikram Pandit has already arranged a village girl as his lilc partner. The story now lakes the usual turn in which Paresh objects to his father's arrangement and leaves the village to marry Dr. Kamala. The father excites the hostility of the man whose daughter was engaged to Paresh and in consequence becomes miserable and unhappy. Paresh and Dr. Kamala live as husband and wife each doing different work. Dr. kamala goes to thc hospital, sometimes during thc day and sometimes at night and Paresh goes to an office always during thc day and stays at home during nights. There arc days when the husband and wife miss each other terribly due to thc duties of their different vocations. These interludes of absence put a strain on the love between thc two and ultimately lead to a terrificquarrel and misunderstanding. Dr. Kamala who works with noble ideals in view finds her husband unsympathetic anil becomes miserable. The climax is soon reached when Paresh walks out of the home calling his wife numerous names. As film coincidence would have it, Kamala has just performed an operation on Bikram Pandit, the father of her husband and saved his life without knowing that the man saved was her 69