FilmIndia (1948)

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January, 1948 FILM INDIA Meena Kumari looks belter than her sister, Khurshid (Jnr.), in "Piya Ghar Aja", a Kanjit picture. ready got and for once even our puritanic Congress Ministers will know to what depths film producers are prepared to stoop to continue their filthy work of poisoning society and making money for jam. That some sobering elements like Chunilalji of Filmistan are holding up Chhotu's presidential enthusiasm to launch the "pressure" boycott forgetting that filmindia's Patel has seen many presidents before and people who stood straight on two legs and did not limp about with their decisions. That years ago the great S&rdar Chandulal had put his heart, soul, time, energy and money to boycott "filmindia" and wipe it out of existence but Baburao Patel is still living and telling the nation what to see and what not and how to sec it. It is a ten-year old story but it has an ever fresh moral because the Sardar has twice as much brain as the whole industry put together. That people expect a producers' president to give the film industry a good name by popular acts which will benefit both the producers and the people. But here is Chhotu, the man who cannot stand straight on two legs, betraying the producers by involving them into an immoral boycott agitation against the most popular magazine of India and just because its editor is asking the censors to remove filthy, anti-social stuff from our motion pictures. Chhotu seems to be bent on making Baburao Patel another martyr on the Cross. That as a rebuff to the Congress Government in Bombay and a straight slap in Minister Morarji's face for his censorship restrictions, the film producers met and feted Jayaprakash Xarayan. the so cialist and gave him Rs. 33,000 at one tea party with a promise for more money whenever required. That Jayaprakash will in return beat the Congress at the next polls and accept a couple of film producers as ministers who will close down "filmindia", shut off democracy, stop all nonsense about censoring, erect the statue of Chhotu the man who cannot stand straight on two logs, garland Chunilalji the new Socialist minister of all affairs, advance a crore of rupees as loan to Sardar Chandulal and give the all-India theatre monopoly to Keki Modi on little Rustom's birthday. If Morarji Desai speaks a word against all this, he shall be sent to jail from where he came once. That if someone sees Kardar these days he can't help remembering the "Picture of Dorian Grav" that Oscar Wilde story. Too many old thoughts have not only made the wig grey but the face also a network oi wrinkles. Poor Kardar. and he was so happy before Pakistan. That Kardar has purchased a palatial house at Karachi to compete with Mivan Mehboob But so have Xur Jehan. the -baby" star and Khurshid the star with the "Polar Bear" to her siring Hindu houses are so cheap in Pakistan that even *oras R0ad beauties can afford to buy them after a month's practice. Thai film actor Ghujano Mahomed has returned to Bombay to earn his bread bavin placed his family fa, the Pakistan safe deposit. Wonder whe'her the tannly will be safer there than here seeing that Ghulam Mahomed is one of the nicest Muslims who is not vet poisoned with Pakistan politics That the pet stud teaser in the Ranjit yard is ootong out for new pastures in opposite direction h ese days and approaching old assistants with an x a broad smile on an old tooth. But you can t build a new house with old tools! Can you* That there is a report of a new sold mine one S^tS. £anji! SfS th' ^ name0' of hltZ h i, a ,olks .Sta"di^ * « queue with tie ing bra Is. Anyway. ,t does provide free tea £^$3?£T> <™ That even Pandit Indra of "Panihari" fame and Ranj.t trade mark is seen these dav ami " old stones rejected bv his Sardar to a man named Naresh because Naresh means a kin, while " sartar nu-yns u a ardar and there are so man ^f them even the 8 t U lnV° ^ ^ even cne sardar s old saddle some day' That the Indian film industry hasn't much of bSv^h^ T °\ com*e Mo,,!:in Abdulla, Veen hasnH made up her mind yet either way That Ambalal Patel wants to file a suit for damages agamst Sardar Vallabhbhai Pate 2 fE .rounds of seeking to monopolise the sea Lai \1 Pidity we once saw as Information Fil,, f i 1 We wish Ambalal all suec ™ • °! f*** 19