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FILMINDI A
September 1946
Chandni. the girl over whom her producer went crazy with superlative adjectives, plays the lead in "Sona Chandi" produced and directed by R. D. Pareenja.
his latest pride, the producer portrays the struggle of Rana Pratap to regain Mewar from the Moghuls Fighting shv of the present-day politically-conscious Muslims he" has quietly avoided all mention of Emperor Akbar. A wise move for a commercial magnate but that is certainly not the correct beginning for a truthful representation of history. If the great producer was scared of the Muslims why bother .at all about a subject like that wherein facts have to be distorted to suit commercial interests?
Kicking Tods and Vincent Smiths aside, he turns the brother of Pratap from a traitor into a misguided patriot and leaving history behind turns the saga of Pratap's chivalry into a romantic interlude between Shaktsingh and his beloved. Pratap is, of course, there as punctuation to remind us of history at regular intervals but by the time we come to the end he takes all our pity for having the most uglylooking unqueenly queen and children that would decorate street beggars as parents and a sword that sticks in the scabbard at the wrong moment and a horse which looks like an overgrown goat and only one dress which he has to wear whilst eating, sitting, fighting and sleeping and last but not the least, some stupid and poor dialogue which he is made to spit out like so much bacteria from a foul mouth. Yes, people pitied Pratap and wept for him silently and
many thought that a Pratap of that sort hardly cle served to win back Mewar. He had not even a deJ cent wife to be placed as a queen on the throne.
The same film centurion also gave us "Shahen shah Babar'. Taking an ugly, barbarian type an> dressing him like an Eskimo, we were presented wit a great Moghul invader. Strangely enough the hug Moghul had a tiny pup as a son whom we were ask ed to identify as Humayun, the warrior. The stor was anything but history and it went the shamefv way of other historical pictures of Indian producer!
The centurion gave us still another in "Mumtai Mahal", the unforgettable romance of Shah Jeha and Mumtaz Mahal. This was supposed to be th story of that immortal mausoleum of love, the Ta Mahal. It turned out to be anything but that.
Then there was still another film from the grea centurion: "Tansen". Millions of Indians have be lieved this man to be the greatest musician of ou country. Our film centurion corrected this belief b; proving conclusively that Tansen was the greater magician and certainly not the greatest musician.
Our tale of woe is endless. We have quoted onli a few examples to show what even a rich, resource
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