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7/>/.s section is the monopoly of "JUDAS" runt he writes what he
likes oiid about things which he likes. The views expressed here are
not necessarily oars, but still they carry weight because they arc written by a man who Litotes his job.
AD BUT TRUE!
Elsewhere in this issue, my Editor has lade out a very conclusive case against our (tars. The proofs given by him are so conincing that though, I nurse a weakness for ur screen girls, I cannot possibly defend hem for fear that this weakness of mine may •ecome an open secret.
The more I think over this problem, the nore I am inclined to believe what the Editor vrites.
Scanning that formidable list of failures, ven a hardened sceptic will have to go under he weight of the arguments presented.
India has really no stars because almost ill expensive pictures with high paid 'stars' lave failed miserably.
The failure of the stars with such a ragic consistency has created an alarming tate of affairs.
What are the exact essentials of success or our present day pictures? Some one nust answer this question?
ilVE US BETTER DIRECTORS!
In trying to answer this all important luestion, I think, we have very few directors vho are well equipped for their job.
Barring, Shantaram, Barua, Nitin Bose md Devaki Bose, India can hardly claim a
director who knows his job well. True, there are so many others working in our several studios, but almost all of them are merely more or less qualified and generally less so.
Off and on some of them are able to give us pictures which register a fluke success, and due to the paucity of supply, with one such box-office success accidentally achieved, several of these directors are able to maintain themselves for the rest of their lives.
Taking stock of the actual men who work as directors and other human attributes, I must frankly state that with the exception of some well born persons most of our directors come from the scum of society. Several of them are even illiterate and live merely on their native cunning.
The quantity side of our industry is in the hands of such men, unfortunately for every one concerned in the industry.
The producers who otherwise show great courage and enterprise in taking up big productions in hand, somehow fail to muster up enough moral courage to drive out these directors.
India has only four efficient directors, half a dozen half-baked ones and the rest blackmailers who live on sheer wit and cunning. .
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