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FILM INDIA
December, 1943
on, the director, having forgotten everything about this vice of the King, shows him as a perfectly sober villain, with not a liquor glass in sight.
Not to be beaten by others, Kusum Deshpdhde, playing the role of Azabella, the vamp, gives her loud sexy stuff with some peculiar Urdu both of which keep tickling our ribs vigorously.
Likewise all the scenes in which M. Ismail appears, fcuvarnala.a weeps, iNazir smgs or tome prominent character uies provide their own humorous moments though all these sequences were original ly intended to oe grave and pauieuc.
The only sad sequences are those of the court jester, though actually these sequences were designed to be humorous.
With the sentiments of the drama thus reversed, ttie picture impresses one more as a hilarious comedy rather than as a stark tragedy in which the heroine final y jumps to death.
"Wanciq Azra" is a phantastic yarn of lorgoUen times and of a lorgotten country, it is therefore not surprising to sec the writer misusing his imagination whereever he got an opportunity. The story is the usual one of great frustrativc love which end nusual in tragedy, it is built on the time-worn plan of LeilaMajnu, Shirin-Farhad etc., lover* who sighed ami died and never did anything. WASTE OF MONKEY ENERGY
The production values of the picture are ad badly mixed up The photography is smart in parts and indifferent at places. The recording is not satisfactory. The dialogue is pretiy good in parts but utterly inappropriate in many places. The song compositions are quite good but the tunes remain borii:g and unattractive. Some sets look quite good but one gets a shock to see the chariot from "Taramati" in a picture of this type. The outdoors had some modern buildings to emphasize the stubborn stupidity of the director. The direction of the picture proves so much waste of monkey energy. There is nothing intelligent or artistic about the dine tor's work.
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From the players, Suvarnalata, in spite of her sour looks and Xazirian mimicry, gives a pretty good performance though at places she becomes intensely artificial and stagy. Nazir plays the hero but doesn't look it nor does he act the role. In the villain's role, M. Ismail gives a comic performance. He plays the prize idiot of the show, with an oily face and showing his teeth like a chimpanzee with every word he spits out.
Kusum Deshpande gives an )bvious demonstration of her up
t>er half and becomes revoking. Her loud acting makes her performance ridiculously vulgar. W. M. Khan has never acted i:i his entire career and was not expected to improve here. He remains true to his previous reputation in the role of Tughral. The comedian, the court jester, is perhaps the most tragic failure.
Well, "Wamiq Azra" is at best a stupid and boring picture :<nd as such richly deserves to be missed by all people with some horse-sense.
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With Hundreds of Unknown Stars
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY UDAY SHANKAR. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR: VISHNUDAS SHIRALL ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: P. Y. ALTEKAR. PHOTOGRAPHY: K. RAMNOTH. SOUND AND AUDIOGRAPHY: C. E. BIGGS. ART DIRECTION: A. K. SEKHAR.
Stage Si Screen Presentations, Studio Gemini, Madras.