Director: Nandlal Jaswantlal; Writer: Mohanlal G. Dave; Cinematographer: Pandurang Naik; Cast: Shantakumari, D. Bilimoria, Thatte, Putli, Ishwarlal
Summary: Amar (Bilimoria) and Ila's (Shantakumari) love
is disrupteted by the dashing Samar (Ishwarlal).
The rivals get embroiled in the Kashmir war
and Samar dies in Amar's arms. Amar returns to
find that Ila has become an ascetic but they
eventually get married. This is an early
Jaswantlal-Naik collaboration which elaborated
the use of the close-up, esp. in melodramas.
Naik, who had begun his career as a carpenter
at Kohinoor, went on to assist cameramen
Gajanan S. Devare and Dabke and turned
cameraman with
Neera (1926). He later toured
Europe with Jaswantlal (1933). They went on
to make some classic Imperial sound films together.
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