FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDI A It is an old Victorian courtesy which even women don't appreciate these days. Many women wear trousers these days and would prefer to be addressed as gentlemen. Generally politicians do not act in films. Why? Films have a happy ending which politicians dread. They need chaos and tragedy to be natural. U hen politicians stage their acts, people pay with their lives. BULO T. HARISINGANEY (Thana) What prefix do you prefer before your name — Mr. or Shri? "Shri" smells of our white-cap democracy. I like "Mr." as there are more blood-sucking bugs in the white caps of the day. Your November issue was out on the 30th October. How did it happen ? Once in a while my partner goes crazy and prints "filmindia" in time. He, however, repents immediately. You have made us tools to pay the monthly bills of your grocer, milkman, washerman etc. Is it worthy of you? Do you take me for a charitable institution? For two rupees I bring sunshine in your life and how can 1 do it unless I pay all these beggars in time? From which school of dancing has our popular Cuckoo learnt her art? Cuckoo is born a graceful dancer. She has a kick in every curve. It is a pity, producers abuse her art. KANHAIYA WAS (Jodhpur) When Jayaprakash Xarain, socialist leader, delivers his speech he keeps his left hand in the left pocket of his jacket. Vi hy ? He probably has his trump card in there. You knoa the 1942 revolution. WADHIO J. BIJLANI (Thana) Is it sinful to love money? Sot at all! Wrongful acquisition or its misuse is a crime. It goes without saying that Mahatma Gandhi was a true patriot. Was Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah also a true patriot? Of Pakistan, of course. Is fame a food that dead men eat? Dead men digest it better than the living. IUSHI KESH MATHL'R (Kasauli) How is 'goondaism' related to politics? Politics is licensed goondaism. Cigarette smoking is described as 'a small quantity of tobacco wrapped in a piece of paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other"? And the devil of a Congress minister in between. At times I am so fed up with my life that I wish to put an end to it. But suicide is a crime — both moral and penal. What should I do? February, ll See Indian pictures thrice every day and will pass out of this world gradually. What is the difference between nature and God? Nature is the halo of God. Even God ne glamour. P. VENUGOPAL (Tellicherry) Are you fond of reading autobiographies of pro nent leaders like Gandhi ji and Xehru? The biographies of millions are their at biographies. W hat's new in that to read? D. WILLIAM MOSES (Tanjore) Are you aware of the fact that a journalist in Mad is trving his best to become Baburao Patel of So India? That is where journalists and magazines fai, in trying to imitate me. While there is alway place for a new person with a new approach, co, ing another merely helps to advertise the origina Suppose Director Badami produces a better picti than "Emile Zola" what will you do? I'll become a Muslim and rush to Pakistan. Badami does that India would be too good a pit for me to live in. What do your neighbours think of you? They have stopped thinking as I do all I thinking for them. MISS GOLRI DASS (Ahmedabad) Which is the most intoxicating thing in this worB Flattery. It gives a swollen head which dec Kanwal Kapoor and Raj Rani face an exciting situation i Ranjit's "Pardesi Maheman".