Memorable Movies

he savoured
at Cinema Halls of Bombay (now Mumbai)
Regal Talkies
Colaba
Royal Opera House
Girgaum
Empire Cinema
Bori Bunder
Imperial Cinema
Lamington Road
Edward Theatre
Kalbadevi
Cinema Majestic
Girgaum
 
The mesmerizing movies totally gripped him, so much so that he was restless till he had,
in what may seem to b a reverse process, recast these into Gujarati short stories.
  
Later published as two unusual books --- Pratimaao  (The Images) and Palakaaraa (The Blinks)

The publication of these signaled the rise of a new genre in Gujarati Literature.

 

Meghani explains


Pratimaao
1934
 

જનેતાનું પાપ

The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
74 minutes
Director    Edgar Selwyn
Drama
A wrongly imprisoned woman
turns to theft and prostitution
in order to support her son.

આખરે

Seed
1931
96 minutes
Director    John M. Stahl
Drama
A man, 
his family,
his former girlfreind ...

પુત્રનો ખૂની

The Man I Killed
1932
77 minutes
Director   Ernst Lubitsch
Drama
A French soldier travelling, out of guilt,
to Germany to meet the family of
a German solder he killed in war.

પાછલી ગલી

Back Street
1932
89 minutes
Director   John M. Stahl
Drama
A woman's
love for and devotion to
a married man 

આત્માનો અસુર

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
98 minutes
Director     Rouben Mamoulin
Horror
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences
when he lets his dark side run wild,
changing himself into the animalistic Mr. Hyde

એ આવશે !

Madame Butterfly
1932
88 minutes
Director     Marion Gering
Drama
Glimpses of a Japanese Geisha as she
swings between joys and sorrows,
laughter and tears.

હાસ્ય : પહેલું અને છેલ્લું

The Crowd
1928
104 minutes
Director   King Vidor
Drama
The life of a man and woman together in a
large, impersonal metropolis through
their hopes, struggles and downfalls.

જીવન-પ્રદીપ

City Lights
1931
87 minutes
Director   Charlie Chaplin
Comedy
The Tramp struggles to help
a blind flower girl
he has fallen in love with.

મવાલી

20,000 years in Sing Sing
1932
78 minutes
Director   Michael Curtiz
Crime
Set in Sing Sing,
the notorious maximum-security prison,
in New York State

Palakaaraa
1935
 

માસ્તર સાહેબ

Topaze
1933
80 minutes
Director    Marry D'abbadie D'arrast
Comedy
An honest and naive school-teacher
gets a lesson in how the world works
outside the classroom.

દીક્ષા

Cradle Song
1933
78 minutes
Director    Mitchell Leisen
Drama
A delicate emotional drama unfolds
within the precincts of a
Spanish convent.

હિમસાગરનાં બાળ

Eskimo
1933
120 minutes
Director    W. S. Van Dyke 
Drama
The happy life of an Eskimo
is disastrously changed  when he mingles
with an unscrupulous white trader

બદનામ

Dishonoured
1931
91 minutes
Director   Josef von Sternberg
Spy
A war widow
recruited by the Austrian Secret Service
to serve as Agent X27 --- a female spy

જલ્લાદનું હ્રદય

The Hatchet Man
1932
74 minutes
Director   William A. Wellman
Drama
An incident of sacrifice of love
picked up from the cruel quarreling life of the
Chinese in America

ધરતીનો સાદ

Viva Villa
1934
115 minutes
Director     Jack Conway
Drama
Biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa.
Though ruthless in his treatment of the rich,
Pancho is a hero to the poor


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