“Rudolph Valentino of India”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20721, 7 May 1937, Page 14

“Rudolph Valentino of India”

There stepped Into a murky, rainsodden London one day recently a young Hindu actor who is destined to become the Rudolph Valentino of India, says a London writer. Twenty-one-year-old V. V. Satagopan has come to play fast and loose as a man-about-town, but only for film purposes. He Is cast for the hero in “Modern Youth,” a production by Assandra Classical Talkies, of Madras, and for the first time in Indian film history scenes are being shot in England to get the right atmosphere for the story. Satagopan”s teeth are a gleaming white, his hair is wavy and Jet black and he wears Western clothes. Describinlg the film plot, he said: “I travel to London to be educated for the Indian Civil Service. “I leave behind the girl to whom I am engaged, and in England T go wrong with wine and women. I go 'on the fast and loose,’ as you say, so that when I return I am not good enough ; for the 1.C.5., and become a barrister.” His manager, Gobindram, said: “I hope to make Satagopan into a screen i lover like Valentino, and from what I have seen of his acting so far he has every chance of making himself r hit with the film fans of India.”