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January. 1948
FILM INDIA
Surraiya plays thz lead in ' Kajal". produced and directed by M. Sadiq.
Do you think that the League leaders are in earnest to keep permanent peace in both the dominions? Is there anybody from the League side preaching mutual brotherhood like the father of our mation?
All the Muslim Leaguers believe in and preach brotherhood and in their utter enthusiasm they often press home the argument with a knife. It is of course Islamic brotherhood of "Allah, Insha Allah. Bismdlal,. Mashallah. SubhanaUah"!
What is your opinion about the state of JunaBdh?
The State is not now in a stati of enjoying an opinion.
M. V A SIDE VAN NAIR (Putliyara)
"Knock and the door will be opened". How talis this true of our film Actresses and producer-.'
Doors are old fashioned and many of them hare no doors to their rooms.
What would you prefer: peace in bondage or chaos in freedom?
What is pec.ee under the boot of another — a worm's existence! Let us be roasted in fire to get even a moment?* flush of freedom.
FT SURESH CHANDRA SARMA (Sambhal)
When is democracy undesirable?
When it is doled out by a power-crazy clique, however noble their general ideals.
H. C. KUMAR (Mussoorie)
Will you suggest some respectable way of earning my living?
The more salt you drop from your skin, greater the sugar in your bread. And anything sweet is respectable.
Why are our producers after Xur Jehan?
Most of our producers are barren and they like babies and Xur Jehan came to the screen as a baby.
GOPAL (Mysore)
Why do the boys throw paper balls at girls in colleges when the lecture is going on?
To prove their impotence and bad breeding in case the girls have any doubt.
RAM KUMAR GUPTA (Delhi
What is the future of our film industry?
.1 brilliant future for undeserving people.
R. SHRINIVASAN (New Dalhi)
From the photo of the loth August ceremony in your bungalow, I see Protima Das Gupta with a cigarette and a cigarette tin in her hand. Is this in accordance with your conception of Indian womanhood?
Shi is not my women to live up to my court, ption.
\ VUAYARAJ (Rajahmundry i
How does etiquette differ from culture?
Etiquette is the mask, culture is the face behind.
What is the acid test to catch a man in his true colours?
Ask for a loan and icctch the colour changing.
T P. JHI NJHI NT WALA (Pratapgarh)
Is there any chain smoker among the actresses?
There u-as one. She married a bearded Russian.
ASHRAFUL IMAM (Patna)
Define loyalty?
Ask Chowdhary KhoJtquzaman. lie knows the definition suitable for Muslims.
What do you think Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah should do now thai he has achieved Pakistan?
Count the (/hosts of thousands who were ■ killed.
F K RAVAT (Bombay)
I woman a house builder or a house breaker? A woman is a greenhouse plant. She needs
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