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FILMINDI A
Dixit, with his brilliant performance, makes " Pugree "a rare entertainer.
It is a novel type of a story 'which though thin in places is yet sufficient lv enterprising to deserve special praise.
TECHNICALLY POOR
Technically the picture is a hit poor, the photography being indiflerent and the recording of dialogue pretty careless. Even the hack projection work is very clumsily done. Quite a few songs are tuned attractively but the words are not very happy. In the first half we find a few unnecessary songs and dances, probably to give Shashikala an extra break. The Shashikala appearances, however, prove a drag on an otherwise bright story. The dialogue is good and with a bit more of imagination the screenplay could have been packed with more situations.
Anant Thakur's direction must be rated as good and enterprising considering the fact that this is his maiden effort.
DIXIT BRILLIANT
From the players. Dixit, our fat and philosophic comedian, swallows the entire crowd of artistes by his brilliant performance as Kamu Chacha. He lives the role and the way he does it, the others look amateurish. Dixit is at once great and brilliant.
Kamini Kau-hal struggles bravely before this mountain of an actor and wins second honours in the role of Koopa. Gope is completely outclas
sed by Dixit though Cope does his best. Wasti looks crude as an educated architect while Shashikala still remains a poor artiste with a smile that looks like a grimace.
April, 1949
And yet after all said and done " Pugree " is one of the best enter tainers we have had recently and al praise to Producer Arora for havin< produced it.
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