Director: Mohan Sinha; Writer: Mohan Sinha; Cinematographer: Haribhai K. Patel, Sadashiv J. Vyas; Cast: Pushpa, R.D. Shukla, O.K. Dhar (aka Jeevan), Wadilal, B.L. Ganju, Badriprasad, Bhusharan Sharma, Dhanjit Shah
Summary: Big-budget drama with 'special photographic tricks, story, dialogues, songs and the entire production idealised' by the director. The idealistic Kusum (Pushpa) believes in the 'fashionable way of modern civilisation' and writes a play extolling the virtues of modernisation. It is produced by her lover and fellow university student, Ramesh (Shukla), bringing him into conflict with the villainous Madhav (Dhar). The other major character is a olcal Raja (Wadilal) who also loves Kusum and plans to marry her by settling her father's debts. This leads to kidnappings and murders before the happy end. Known mainly as a musical spectacular containing English ditties like
Daisy, Daisy and
Jolly Good Fellow and the film that sank the Krishna Film Studio. Well-known Hindi screen villain Jeevan acts under the name O.K. Dhar, retaining the name for the sequel,
Romantic India (1936).
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