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His earliest photo in my collection. filmindia 1936.
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This is from a PhD dissertation in Hindi, submitted to a university from Jhansi in 1989.
In Hindi, Rupak Alankar is a figure of speech where the "subject" is directly identified as the "comparison" without using words like "like" or "as."
The English equivalent is metaphor.
A short sample of examples from the dissertation
Rupak
1- Dooba jab dil ka naiyya saamne the kinaare.
2- Karti jyoti amrit se sinchan, mangal ghar ghar ke
jyoti Yashoda, dharti gaiya, neel gagan Gopal
Kanhaiya, shyaamal chhavi halki.
3- Mere praanon ka hee gunjan tum man-mayur ho mere.
4- Preeti-dulhan saji man mein, shehanaai baji hai.
5- Dukh ki nadiya jeevan naiyya, aasha ke patvaar lag.
6- Kaahe chhalke nainon ki gagri kaahe barse jal.
7- Chhand gai jeevan-dhan, praanon ko phir baandh virah ke bandhan me man maavan.
8- Jeevan-nadiya bahti jaaye shaam savere bepahchaana.
9- Chhand jagat ko jogi vanajaa odh ke preeti-dushaala.
10- Haay! toree-nazar ka deewana nishaana hoon main.
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After the recent Musing about him, Pramathanath Sastry expressed puzzlement about how a Gujarati came to be in Lahore. I started to rummage through my collection of books, magazines, newspapers and cuttings. Finally remembered reading about him in the book 'Punjab Kee Filmee Taareekh' by Parvez Rahi published in Lahore.
Here is the relevant Urdu text with my translation.
Gul-e-Bakavali was a clean and a successful Punjabi film. Its dialogues were very interesting. This film was produced at the cost of 60,000 rupees and it made 15 lakhs of rupees. The music director of this film, Ghulam Haider was paid 250 rupees a month. This film was released in Prabhat Cinema Lahore on November 12, 1937.
Seth Dalsukh Pancholi's story of coming into film production goes something like this. He was a distributor of films, owner of Empire Distributors in Lahore. One day producer-director R L Shorey invited him to come to his studio. So Pancholi went to the studio in Muslim Town, where director R L Shorey was busy shooting his film 'Shahar Khamoshan'. On the set were Shyaman and Majanoon. Film director R L Shorey introduced the actors to Pancholi.
A few days after this incident, producer R L Shorey went to Pancholi and asked him to finance his film 'Sohni Mahiwal'. Pancholi agreed to do this but put many conditions before he could finance it. After the release of this film Pancholi made a huge profit. Because of this Pancholi gave away all of his distribution business to his elder brother and he himself started to produce films.
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