FilmIndia (1948)

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FILMIND1 A An astrologer is a criminal who cashes on your credulity while an insurance agent is a social worker who wants you to be sensible abend your future. If marriages are performed in heaven, what is the significance of their performance on earth? They are evidently arranged in heaven but performed on earth, otherwise the priests would be unemployed. SHARIF A L. DESAI (Johannesburg) I am a beautiful matriculate girl of 18. I have a burning desire to be married, but unfortunately I cannot find a suitable husband. What shall I do? Allow yourself to be found. It is not fashionable yet to search a husband. If you are all that you say. you are not living in a land of blind men. What is sex? Physical expression of mental desire. MISS GUL H. GURBAXANI (Bangalore) When do men blush? When they are caught bluffing. J. D. KOLI (Wanlesswadi) In tragic circumstances, who is the pillar of strength — man or woman? Man is physical support, woman is moral support. RAJENDRA SINGH (Mearut) Some say with obvious truth that "filmindia" is the autobiography of Mr. Patel. Do you agree? Must be some life which takes fourteen years to write and still seems endless. PRITHI PAUL SINGH (Simla) Congress ministers usually come to office in a loose shirt and parachute like dhoti. Don't they feel sleepy in this dress? Many of them do with the residt that our destiny is a'so sleeping. K L. DUTT (Madras) What is the psychology of an actor sitting in & picture house and seeing a picture in which he has acted? He feeh he is before a magnifying mirror which makes the little worm look like an elephant. After seeing Shantaram's "Jeevan Yatra" I was terribly disgusted with Hindi pictures? We have aH to build a new nation and we canno* afford to get disqusted so soon. Let us all whip the producers in?o action but not be lickrd oursPlv°B. The dm victnregoers are licked, there Will be no film industry. IRFAN AHMAD (Lucknow) Will Gandhism survive after Mahatma Gandhi? Only on his anniversary days, we shall 28 January, 1948 hear of the Prophet of Peace and of his sermoti in bhangi colonies. K. K. GOPAL RAO (Mysore) Can "Ramrajya" be established in India i Gandhiji's life time? / think it has already been established witi thousands of Seetas entering fire to save then honour. MISS NARGIS MEDAPA (Mercara) Are you the type who fusses a lot about his ap pearance? Had I, I wouldn't have weighed 200 an odd pounds. SAVITRI DEVI (Cavvnpore) Diwali and Independence numbers of "filmindia were as thin as usual whereas other journals ha nearly doubled their bulk. Why so? Do you xvant bulk or brain? S. P. VASUDEV RAO (Bangalore) How to console an angry dame? I Show her your back. What do you think of the present Kashral situation? An interlude of ideological cheating befon tlie Kashmiris cross the Rubicon. Something is worrying Para, the magic doll of million in 'Suhagi". produced by Blue Art Pictures.