I want to highlight the reason why in that period of Cinema, actors used to act like that.
The reason is: They were primarily trained to perform the Theater.
And we have to be louder in our expression while performing on the stage
Exaggerated expression?
Yes!
Exaggerated! Because your verbal, facial and physical expressions should be equally comprehensible.
for the spectator who's sitting in the front row of the hall, and for the one who's sitting in the last.
Actors of that era brought that very training of theater along with them to firstly Cinema Screen and then to TV drama.
Those actors had a different style of delivering the dialogues even.
They, even our legend Sultan Rahi too, used to speak very loudly
When we teach our students about ACTING, we clearly tell them that
it is extremely vital to learn the methods of acting on the stage
That is, in order to learn the basics of acting, it is extremely important to learn the methods of acting on the stage.
However, when you are preparing to act on the screen, just UNLEARN the methods of stage.
Raju (a senior actor): "Yes! you can't introduce variation without unlearning."
Unlearn not only the way of delivering the dialogues Sir!
But you'll have to unlearn the entire pack of gestures, more accurately, the nuances.
The nuances of the Theater are different from the nuances of Cinema
For instance; you blink your eye, whip the eyelash in a close-up, the whip will become a blast.
You cannot do it loudly in a close up for the cinema unless it is needed.
Whereas, this very whip, if intended to be performed by an actor on stage,
showing to the last man sitting in the hall is a primary requirement.
How'd you show your blink of eye, the tear coming down to the last man?
Of course, by a louder expression!
The training we get for the stage is extremely useful; yet, we have to unlearn it before appearing on screen.
I present an example (of a confused actor who acted on screen as if he were performing on stage)
A film, "Mah e Meer" got released a few months ago, though we, the students of cinema don't call it a film.
Raju: " Yeah, it's not a film. It is a collection of the episode of a drama serial"
Exactly! If you notice, there's a very interesting event in the film.
Manzar Sehbai when enters the room, is drunk thus falls on the ground like a lifeless plank
I told my fellow cinegoer sitting with me that it was an exhibition of the training of acting on stage.
The actor could not switch himself over to the screen mode from the stage mode.
For the theater, his acting was okay. But for the sliver screen, it was a glimpse of over-acting.
On the stage, producing the sound of the blast of the man collapsing like a plank was a must.
In spite of having applied the formulae of Acoustics, exaggeration of the expression was still required
A noteworthy point of the Films of that era is...
that the Pakistani society was evolving. We entered the 50s right after 3 years of the independence.
The Filmmakers of that era therefore tried to fulfill their passion instead of responding to the public demand.
They made films on the folk tales they had read of both the East and the West.
Be that the Shakespearean tale or the indigenous one; they brought it on the silver screen.
The literate people of the industry were experimenting fusion in that era as well.
The local filmmakers wanted to make the tales of Heer Ranjha, Sassi Punnhu and the likes a basis for their ventures.
In the British India, films based on the Hindu Mythology were being made.
Since the people of the subcontinent are very religious in general.
Therefore, making films on mythologies or their characters was an automatic choice.
Raju: "Like Mahabharata?"
Yes!
Dada Saheb Phalke did it in the beginning.
Raju: "That is why Dada Saheb Phalke Award is given to the best filmmakers in India".
This is why Dada Saheb Phalke is known as the father of Indian Cinema.
Adeel Barki (a singer): "The films of that era hosted the everlasting music".
Sundus (the anchor of the show): in terms of the variation in voice...
the presenters of the shows of TV of that era used to speak differently. Isn't it?
Yes. Because the Radio trained them of speaking in a peculiar style.
The personality of Radio, as we teach our students, consists of three ingredients...
1. Voice 2. Sound 3. Music...
Our vocal box produces Voice, the sound is produced by the nonliving things. And audio is the recorded sounds.
By recording the voice and the sounds of musical instruments and foley apparatus; The audio comes into being.
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