FilmIndia (May-Dec 1938)

November 1938 FILMINDIA pointed on the Bombay Board of Film Censors. We understand that the Kinema Renters' Societyhad never even asked for this representation, but the right of representation was practically thrust on it. The Kinema Renters' Society, with the exception of one British member, is entirely composed of American producers, who take millions out of India every year. Its membership is of those Americans who do not even permit us to stay on their soil for more than six months, let alone the question of their giving the Indians any civic rights. And yet our Government constituted of well tried Congressmen fighting for independence, dare to give the Americans a representation on a semi-official body like the Bombay Board of Film Censors. Can slavishness go further? The strangest part of the whole affair is that in confirming the same appointment again this year the government had its hands strengthened by a recommendation to do so from the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association. One cannot understand how the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association could be a party to this act of slavishness, which provides the foreigners an instrument of retaliation and throat-cutting competition. Our demand is clear and it is that the Bombay Board of Film Censors needs a radical overhaul, if India is ever to look the other nations in face. We want members on the Censor Board who are not merely "expected" to look after the national interests of the country but who are sworn to do so — members like the Hon. Mr. Munshi himself. That is what we expect of the Congress Government. Are we asking for much? NOTICE OF REMOVAL As our firm has amalgamated with the firm of Messrs. Bhaishanker Kanga & Girdharlal, attorneys-at-Law from to-day, we have shifted our office from Whiteaway Laidlaw Building to Albert Building (Yokohama Bank Bldg) First Floor, Hornby Road, Fort, Bombay. Dated this 1st day of October 1938. i i i !! NATVERLAL & CO., Attorneys-at-Law. ! ! !