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September 1938
FILM INDIA
From: M. V. Dikshitulu (Cocanada).
Among the following directors whom do you place on the top: Kardar, Badami, Dhaibar, Hemchunder and Narayan Kale?
On the top of what? If talents for direction are to be considered, then Kale will be on the top of others. Kardar and Badami tie up for second place. Hemchunder may rank third. Dhaiber— I don't know where to place him.
From: S. D. Singh (Bombay).
Why does D. Billimoria always park his car in the evening at a particular spot near the Taj?
To save petrol and perhaps to earn distinction by being noticed. He also stands near enough the car so that people may know whose car it is. Well, why do you grudge him that little vanity?
From: N. H. Sindhia (Bangalore).
Please let me know what you think of the stories of the following pictures and which of them is the best story? "Devdas" (N.T.) "Dalit Kusum'' (Adarsh Chitra), "Unexpected*' (Prabhat) and "Chhaya" (Huns).
"Devdas" was the best story, in so far as it appealed to the sentiment. It was a love yarn and presented aspects more abstract than practical. However, it had enough melodrama to become a good screen story.
"The Unexpected" ranks second. The theme of this story was thin, but its cinematic treatment made the small germ of the theme provocative in
a peculiarly sympathetic way. The rest was completed by excellent direction.
"Dalit Kusum" advocated widow re-marriage with a vengeance. The picture had powerful situations, though some of them too grim, to propagate social reform. I place it third in importance.
"Chhaya", known in English as "Holy Crime" was a crime in the world of entertainment. Though the picture had a provocative theme, it was too morbid for a picture. The picture script was in the hands of inexperienced people who developed situations in a wrong light, and turned an otherwise pathetic theme into a monstrous mess warped by grim emotion and cheap vulgarity. "Chhaya" was an odious entertainment wherein realism had assumed a hideous shape.
From: S. R. Chandrakavi (Matunga).
Why don't the old actresses like Durga Khote, Enakshi Ramrao, Sulochana retire from filmdom or take elderly roles? It is so clumsy to see these "grand mas" make love on the screen to equally old "grand pas". Don't you think so?
I think so, but do you think that these girls will admit the march cf time even if it leaves on their face milestones of ugly wrinkles? Producers who give them juvenile roles are following a suicidal policy and will end by mortgaging all their assets.
What are these rumours about "New Theatres"" going through bad times and borrowing money in the market?
Success often makes more enemies than friends. No producer would turn out great pictures like
Ila Devi seems to be worried with the old man's talk in "The Cat" a Ranjit picture coming to the
screen very shortly.
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