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January. 1948
FILM INDIA
ti huine to thrive and those who need a home know how to build one.
NDRA DEVI (Cawnpore)
If I hear Amir Karnataki's ghost voice again in the screen. I will throw my 'chappals'? At her?
What do you think when you see aged stars ike Nur Jehan playing the role of a college student i "Jugnu"?
That the college students are made of straw. They can't even stop a slander of their own alma mater.
;. L. SIVAMURTHY (Secunderabad)
What is the difference between a prostitute and wife?
Ask your mother, she will tell you.
V. R. SWAMY (Negapatam)
What opinion have you formed in general about outh Indian people?
Nice people at thousand miles.
. M. BALACHANDRAN (Perundurai)
Why is India music mad?
With too many crying cradles in the home, one needs music to grease the ears.
ARAIN S. SAWANT (Bombay)
Why is the Metro Cinema not changed into an idian picture house even with the achievement of dependence?
Metro is not a citadel of British imperialism. It is an American counting house where silver rupees change into gold dollars.
Actor Shyam says, "Film stars lead a dog's life", o you think he is correct?
There are dogs and dogs. The life of a lap dog should be pretty comfortable though its biscuit is not salted with sweat.
How do the married female stars feel when ey have to act with strangers?
Married stars have their edges blunted atid strangers can't sharpen them easily. Those who overeat never wake up with an appetite. Why don't you act in a picture. Mr. Patel?
/ entertain some respect for my face.
(I AM LAL (Indargarh)
Since I have seen the picture of Begum Para on e cover page of "filmindia". I have lost my sen5 and fallen terribly in love with her. Would you ease arrange a meeting at Bombay on my telegraic information to you?
Most willingly but uith her you will have to meet Protima Das Gupta. She is the one who hit the huge Himalayairalla and gave him a life-time mark on the face. People who usually fall in love with Para fall out of it quickly no sooner they see Protima. Don't waste money on
a telegram, a postcard will do. We shall all receive you at the Bombcy Central.
KABIRDIN S. DAMJI (Mombasa)
Why don't the parents permit even their grownup children to read books on sex?
They don't want the children to know what they have been about till the children themselves become sex criminals.
B. K. R SHARMA (Bombay)
Will you please question Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah, the Governor General of Pakistan as to what are the fundamental activities of their National Guards?
He thinks they are there for saluting him whenever he passes with his new plumage but we know some of these National Guards to be blackguards who relieve people of their belongings and rape and convert Hindu women.
K. S. MENON (New Delhi)
Have you any faith in the U.N.O.?
Full faith in its failure. Are there any Communistic activities in our film industry &Jso as they are in Hollywood?
In Hollywood. Communism is politics. In India, it is hunger.
MISS FAIZ JEHAN (Madras)
W bo is the greater pest to society between an astrologer and an insurance agent?
Does be look a gangster? This is Ashok Kumar in ' Sajani". a Filmistan picture.
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