Jeevan Naiya (1936)

Basic  Information,

Directer                    -     Franz Osten
Producer                  -    Himanshu Rai
Writer                       -    J.S. Kashyap,  Niranjan Pal
cast                            -    Devika Rani,  Ashok Kumar 
Music                       -     Saraswati Devi,  J.S. Kashyap (lyrics)
Cinematography     -        Josef  Wirsching
Release                    -        1936 
Running Time           -     140 min 

Basic information
Jeevan Naiya  famous for being the screen debut early superstar Ashok Kumar. The film is about theostracism of dancing girls. The film was one of several successful Bombay Talkies collaborations between Franz Osten, Himashu Rai, screenwriters J.S. Kashyap and Niranjan Pal, and their leading lady of the time,Devika Rani.

It also featured the famous song Koi Humdum Na Raha sung by Ashok Kumar with music by Saraswati Deviand by Jamuna Swarup Kashyap ( J.S. Kashyap), later sung by Kishore Kumar in the film Jhumroo  (1961).

Story

Lata (Devika Rani), daughter of a dancing girl, is brought up by social worker Mathuradas (Prasad) and is engaged to marry the rich Ranjit (Ashok Kumar) when the villain Chand (S.N. Tripathi) arrives to blackmail her with her undisclosed ancestry. Lata is forced to disclose the truth to Ranjit and the assembled wedding guests. Ranjit disowns her but they are reunited when Ranjit, blinded by an explosion, is nursed back to health by a devoted woman who turns out to be his wife.

Devdas (1936)

 Devdas was released in 1935 this film was based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novella, Devdas. Directed by P.C. Barua, it stars K.L. Saigal as Devdas, Jamuna Barua as Parvati (Paro) and T. R. Rajakumari as Chandramukhi. Of Barua's two versions, this was the popular one throughout India.

Story
Devdas (K. L. Saigal) falls in love with Parvati (Jamuna) with whom he has played since childhood and who is the daughter of a poor neighboring family. Devdas goes away to Calcutta for University studies. Meanwhile, Parvati's father arranges her marriage to a much older man. Though she loves Devdas, she obeys her father to suffer in silence like a dutiful Hindi wife. Devdas as a result takes to drink. Chandramukhi (Rajkumari), a dancing girl or 'prostitute' he has befriended in Calcutta, falls for him and gives up her profession to try to save him. Parvati, hearing of his decline, comes to see him to steer him away from a life of drinking. Devdas sends her back saying in his hour of final need he will come to her. She returns to her life of duty. Realising his end is near, Devdas decides to keep his promise and meet Parvati. He journeys all night, reaches her house and is found dead outside the high walls of her house. Inside Parvati hears that Devdas is dead.

More Information,

Directer                    -     Pramathesh Chandra Barua

Producer                  -     Pramathesh Chandra Barua

Writer                      -    Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay,  Kidar Nath Sharma, Pramathesh Chandra Barua

Based on                  -     Drama with romance 

Music                       -     Rai Chand Boral, Pankaj Mullick, Timir Baran

Cinematography      -        Bimal Roy

Release                    -        1936 

Running Time           -     139 min

Cast,

• Kundan Lal Saigal  .........Devdas
• Jamuna Barua  ...........Parvati / Paro
• Rajkumari   .............Chandramukhi
• Pahadi Sanyal
• A. H. Shore
• Nemo
• Kshetrabala
• K. C. Dey
• Bikram Kapoor
• Kidar Sharma
• P. C. Barua

Achhoot Kanya (1936)

 Achhoot Kanya was released in 1936, the film deals with the social position of Dalit girls and is considered a reformist period-piece.The film was one of several successful Bombay Talkiescollaborations between Franz Osten, Niranjan Pal, Himanshu Rai, and their leading lady, Devika Rani. Music is by Saraswati Devi and lyrics by J.S. Kashyap.

Story
A circular story, told in flashback, in which eternal repetition is only interrupted by death in the form of a relentlessly linear railway engine. The film opens at a railway crossing where a man is about to kill his wife when the narrative spins into the past via a song. The central story is of the unhappy love affair between Kasturi (Devika Rani), the Harijan (Untouchable) daughter of the railway level-crossing guard Dukhia (Prasad), and Pratap (Kumar), the Brahmin son of the grocer Mohan (Pithawala). At first, rumour and mob violence are deployed to lethal effect in order to maintain a 'traditional', oppressive morality. Later, when the main protagonists are about to conform and marry selected partners, rumour and maliciousness again intervene to trigger renewed violence until the on-rushing train of fate stops the strife.

More Information,

Directer                       -     Franz Osten

Producer                     -     Himanshu Rai

Writer                           -    Niranjan Pal

Based on                     -     Drama with romance 

Music                          -      Saraswati Devi,  J.S. Kashyap (lyrics)

Cinematography       -        Josef Wirsching

Release                       -        1936 

Running Time             -     142 min

Cast,

• Devika Rani ..... Kasturi
• Ashok Kumar ..... Pratap
• P.F. Pithawala ..... Mohan
• Kamta Prasad ..... Dukhia
• Kishori Lal .......Babulal
• Kusum Kumari  .......Kalyani
• Pramila  .......Kajri
• Anwari  .......Anweri
• Ishrat  ........Sukhlal

Zarina (1932)

'Zarina' was another creation with sound after 'Alam Ara',  this was directed by Ezra Mir and starred by many stars. 

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Directer                       -      Ezra Mir

Producer                     -     Ezra Mir

Based on                     -      social

cast                              -       Noor Mohammad Charlie, Mehboob Khan, Jal Merchant

Release                       -        1932

Sound Mix             -   Mono

Bharati Balak (1931)

'Bharati Balak'  is another creation of Aga Hashr Kashmiri, it was released after 'Alam Ara', but it was another silent film Patience Cooper and  Mohammad Isaq was famous stars of this film.

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Directer                       -      Aga Hashr Kashmiri

Producer                     -     Aga Hashr Kashmiri

Based on                     -      social

cast                              -       Patience Cooper, Mohammad Isaq, Mohan

Release                       -        1931