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FILM INDIA
June, 1946
Central Pictures
Presents
The Gem of the Box-office
1. SHAMI KHAZANA
Starring : Sardar Mansur Madhurika Violet M. Elizar Garib Khan Ahmed Director: S. USMAN
★
Sensational Box-office Miracle of the Year
2. (UAIMATI BIJU
Featuring : Sulochana E. Billimoria
and
an all star cast
Story and Dialogue : MUNSHI SAGAR
(OF " TULSIDAS " &■ "CHANDRAGUPTA" )
Direction : HOMI MASTER
Fop Territorial Riqhfs Apply :
CENTRAL PICTURES,
75, Dadar Main Road, DADAR, BOMBAY.
Studio: Kurla Road, ANDHERI.
director or producer has planted his or her money in a few buildings here and there.
The income-tax department is evidently constituted of simple, innocent folks who could, with benefit, learn a trick or two from our film people. In any case let us congratulate the film folks on stabilizing their future with bricks and mortar.
If Kapurchands can build palaces, why not our dainty stars!
STILL MORE DHOBIE GHATS !
Because Shiraz AH Hakim made a fortune by running a processing plant, every one in India is now anxious to build a laboratory for developing and printing films.
Usually our processing laboratories are only a shade better than our Municipal Dhobie Ghats where all kinds of dirty linen is washed. There is hardly a laboratory in the country worth being called a scientific processing plant where the film is given its correct processing and care.
During the war we had precious few laboratories and ten times more work to do with the different Government production units raping the virginity of the raw stocks with consistent stupidity. Add to this official crime the trade contribution of over 160 rotten pictures annually and you can well imagine the huge profits a coupLe of leading laboratories must have made during the war with the least anxiety to give any quality in their work.
These profits have become the eyesore of others who have a lot of blackmarket money to circulate and all these guys are now planning to build laboratories without even one of them knowing the primary alphabet of film processing. We got a shock of our life the other day when we learnt that a man who was selling rice and wheat flour six years ago had ordered a processing plant and was building a place to house it. In his Gujarati language he told us: "Washing the film is the easiest way to make money." Yes, it has been just "washing" that our labs have been doing and it is some more "washing*' that our future labs hope to do.
At least a dozen more laboratories will be working before the end of this year and at this rate we shall have more labs than pictures or rather more Dhobie Ghats than dirty linen.
Not that some of our present lab people don't know how to process a film correctly. They do but they just don't care to do the job carefully. They have more work than they can handle and they rush through the work to collect the profits hurriedly.
Both the leading labs in the country, the Famous Cine Lab. and the Bombay Film Lab., did good work in the beginning of their careers but today either ot them can't give a single print with uniform density and processing. Both these labs lack strict personal supervision and it is no wonder that both of them have left quality work far behind. Both the labhave been veritable gold mines and their BUCC ss lias
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