Tamanna (1942 film)

Tamanna is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1942. The film was directed by Phani Majumdar, who also wrote the screenplay, for Laxmi Productions Ltd. banner. This was the first film from Laxmi banner, which had been started by Chimanlal Trivedi who earlier headed Circo Productions. Tamanna was also the renowned dancer, Leela Desais, first film in Bombay. The main cast included Leela Desai, P. Jairaj, Karan Dewan, Jagdish Sethi and K. C. Dey, who besides acting, composed the music. S. K. Kalla wrote the dialogue and lyrics.

Ramesh P. Jairaj is a straightforward young man with a desire to help mankind. He works as an engineer in a mill, and is interested in inventive research. Half his income is spent on that, and the rest on the betterment of the villagers. Uma Leela Desai, is a wealthy young girl and lives with her brother, who is a Professor. She can not avail of money entitled to her till she gets married. Uma and Ramesh meet when they share a taxi. They soon fall in love but Rameshs ideals come in the way. Uma marries someone else in order to procure the money for Ramesh to fulfill his mission.In his review of Tamanna, Baburao Patel, editor of the cinemagazine Filmindia of August 1948, commented, The fundamental defect in the picture is the poor story, poorly presented. He put the blame of this on director Phani Majumdar. He praised Leela Desai, Jairaj, and Jagdish, with a special mention for K. C. Deys acting K. C. Dey attracts attention with his emotional work in certain tense moments. ........

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