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Film india
April 1934
producers must perjure on the silver screen, why not depict some such nonsense as to blow up all the enemies with dynamite or gun-powder; open fire with a machine gun; jump down from a flying machine and not from earth to an impossible height unaided or some such nonsense but logical at that.
Then again, we come across sometimes in an otherwise good picture, lots of absurd stuffing and padding. It was some ingenuous director in the past who introduced in the early talkies something like a band of undesirables flocking somehow and dressed anyhow, arranged in a weird complete or semi-circle, standing or squatting and singing what to them appeared "Qawali". Well, it was good then (though I have my doubts) but with the advance of time this sort of thing has been extremely disgusting and it is good for everyone concerned if this sort of nonsense which has no connection with either the hero or the heroine or the theme of the story generally is not indulged in any more. There are hundreds of good stories in the market and when a story does not come up to the required length of celluloid without padding, it is better to 'eiect it or if padding must be done., then by all means it may be done but logically and reasonably.
The West may he taking large strides towards stripping the fair 40
Gail Goodscn, U.A. Starlet
sex of all colthes by slow but sure degrees but it must be remembered that the West is West
and the East is East. The Sari and the Dhoti of the East, to be exact, of India, has survived the ages and even though poverty disallows a second piece of cloth to be donned in many provinces of India, it is a known fact that the Indian Sari is capable of being called a complete dress including a veil. The East therefore, is net accustomed to dress its daughters in the dress with which they are born, no matter where and how they are: home or stage. Why should the producers therefore, attempt an impropriety in this direction by presenting them before our eyes either semi-naked or with an apologetic dress. Some of them even go to the painful length of hiring out a complete outfit of nudity devoid of artistic taste and present it before the awe-struck audience in the form of sundry acrobatic performance interpreted by them as a dance.
Our dancing girls are probably the best dressed women in the world and even now their professional exhibitions are performed in their traditional best dress. Why strip them semi-naked in the name of Art on the Screen? Neither they are accustomed to do so nor are we accustomed to see them abused thus. Both cut a sorry figure.
Probably some of these inexperienced budding producers think that we sit and admire their efforts when they indulge in this kind of absurdities. We don't. We laugh at their follies. And as long as we laugh at them they will keep on losing good money on their pictures.