FilmIndia (1946)

January, 1946 riLMINDIA The advantage is a good living. The disadvantage is a good round of abuse. SATISH CHANDRA VARMA (Amroha) What happens to these glamour boys and girls when they grow old ? Do they starve ? Good artistes need not starve at all. There is work for all at all ages in the film industry. Wc have on the screen artistes over the age of fifty earning a good living. AMAR SINGH (Amritsar) When is a wife a wife and when is she not? A wife is a wife when you are away from the hou?e. She is not much of a wife when you arc in the house. PRITHVI PAUL BINDRA (Lahore) If an innocent fellow falls in love with Durga Khotc after seeing "Veer Kunal", what kind of love would yon call that 5 Filial. K C MIRCHANDANI (Karachi) Can you tell me the difference between a male pro ducer and a female producer ? Sardar Chandulal Shah is a male producer, who produces a dozen pictures a year, with the help of some directors. Protima Das Gupta is a female producer, who, like a woman, produces only one picture a year. When Protima starts multiplying she will change the sex of her profession. May I know how will you vote in the forthcoming elections: Congress, Mahasabha or Muslim League ? I shall vote for Freedom. And though I am not a Congressman, the Congress gets my votes be cause it stands for Freedom. I don't like com munal bodies. V. K. BHATNAGAR (Delhi) Why are our pictures devoid of humour ; That is an unfounded charge. When I saw "Mumtaz Mahal" produced by Ranjit, I laughed to the point of tears. G. R S. YADHAV (Fategarh) Have the Paramount Pictures of America paid any thing to the families of those who lost their lives in the film fire 5 I don't think so and I find that this American firm hasn't got the common courtesy of replying to my two letters of enquiry about this matter. This firm must be marked for special treatment in Free India. MRS. MRUDULA PATEL (Jamnagar) What is the best preparation for tomorrow ? A good smiling time today. ZAFAR ALI SHAH (New Delhi) Can you please select a pet name for my wife ? If she is one-eyed, call her Zabak. That name fits any sex. Can you please tell me how one can find out the most beautiful woman in the world ? By looking into your own heart. That is where the most beautiful women of the world live. B. V. K. NAIK (Bangalore) The word 'PateF means the man at the head of a village. Do you happen to be one ? I am, unfortunately, of a place called Boisar. As such my salary is Rs. ^oj a year. I can arrest a man and put him in the lock-up for a night and catch hold of stray cattle and put them in a cattle-pond without their consent and all this under the benign authority of the British Government. I don't know how my ancestors got into this racket but my family has been in it, goodness knows how many years. It must have been the price for the betrayal of some good cause in olden times by some treacherous ancestor of mine. R KRISHNAMURTI (Ahmedabad) "Every man over forty is a scoundrel", says Bernard Shaw. Do you agree with this ? I don't know whether G. B. S. ever said this, because it is not an intelligent observation. Probably he told this to you personally. To be a scoundrel, one has to be intelligent and you can't wait forty years to be discovered as intelligent. P. I KRUPA VARMA (Vizagapatam) T want vour photo in my album. Would you mind sending one ? I do mind because the only photo that is left with me now is the one that was taken when I was two years old sitting on my mother's lap. As a lot of me is seen in this photograph, it would not be in keeping with the present standards of morality to circulate the same. M K. SEN GUPTA (Lucknow) Who is really more happy: A man who marries a film actress, or a man whose wife becomes a film actress after marriage ? The man who marries a film actress inherits a crowd of rivals. While the man whose wife becomes a film actress purchases new rivals. S. CHANDRA JAIN (New Delhi) How will you define 'friend'5 It is an old word out of fashion these days. Britain and Russia are friends today. But what were they yesterday and what will they be tomorrow? 'Friend' is a wrong word to be used in the 20th century. At its best, it has only a seasonal meaning of sympathy and companionship. JOHN G. SOANS (Bangalore) Why do boys run after girls ? Because girls run away from them. If the girls stop in their place, the boys will be stuck in their own. Let the girls try this and report to me. V. N. KULKARNI (Deolali) Due to your caustic criticism, if some sensitive film actress commits suicide, will you be held responsible for That will be a crown on my criticism. But I am not so lucky. We don't have sensitive film 31