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April 1938
FILM INDIA
the Bombay Talkies studio as a possible place of your employment, but your being a graduate of the Punjab University rather comes in the way of your prospects. Try the Sagar Movietone. They are iooking out for a hero, failing which General Films Ltd., will certainly take you up because you come from a noble family of Ambala.
From: R. P. Kuthotiar (Patna).
Flabby Gohar has absconded from the screen. Has she escaped into the region ot retirement. While weeping and smiling simultaneously she was the solitary artiste ot her kind. Would it be surprising if 1 love her for that?
It would be surprising if you didn't. But now you can take off that weight from your mind. Gohar has slimmed so much that no one can dare call her fat. And she is coming again in "Achhoot", the new story of Chandulal Shah.
From: Krishna Kant Prasad (Gaya).
To be serious, marriage is a long stayed problem with me, but for a bird of my choice, Vasanti. I consider to be the best to aim at. I would be fortunate to correspond with her. Can you arrange for the same?
Frankly, I am no good at this trade. Approach
a priest.
From: A. M. Kapur (Amritsar).
Who sings better? (a) Saigal or Pankaj MuJlick. (b) Shanta Apte or Kanan Bala.
(a) Pankaj Mullick. (b) Kanan Bala.
Who is the better producer? Prabhat or Bombay Talkies?
Prabhat.
From: "Nahom'' (Vizagapatam).
I am thinking of directing a Telugu picture in Prabhat Film Co., Poona. How shall I proceed?
In your case there are two routes: one by the M. <S S.M. Railway and the other by the B. N. Railway. Take whichever is quicker.
From: A. V. Raghavendra Rao (Bangalore).
Referring to your article "India Has No Stars", in my honest opinion, there is at least one star in India and that is the inimitable and glorious Shanta Apte — the Queen of the Indian films and the mainstay of Prabhat.
You are welcome to your honest opinion, but don't be too sure about the main-stay part of it. Prabhat doesn't believe in 'astrology' and has little faith in 'stars'.
From: M. V. Dikshitulu (Cocanada).
Does Director Shantaram read your "filmindia"? That is the only magazine he reads, because in "filmindia" there are no "open letters" addressed to him.
From: J. P. Sequeira (Bandra).
Will you be good enough to tell me which Indian film star has the longest hair?
Ratan Bai. By the way are you experimenting with any depilatories?
From: S. M. Bathija (Bombay).
Who is the best singer from the following: Shanta Apte, Durga Khote, Sabita Devi, Ratnaprabha, and Bibbo?
Shanta Apte.
Maya and Surendra in "Dynamite" a Sagar picture coming to the Imperial Cinema, Bombay.
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