FilmIndia (May-Dec 1938)

Record Details:

Title:
FilmIndia
Date:
May-Dec 1938
Publisher:
Bombay
Volume:
FilmIndia (1938)
Leaf #:
000339
Language:
English
Collection:
India and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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Sui icriplion : Inland Rs. 5/Burma & Foreign Rs. 8/Single Copy As. 6/ Proprietors : Filmindia Publications Ltd., 104, Apollo Street, Fort, BOMBAY. Editor: BABURAO PATEL Pol. 4 DECEMBER 1938 No. 8 STOP THIS SLANDER OF INDIA "The Drum" provoked the nation. The British in producing this picture made an abortive attempt to endorse their imperialism as enforced in the Frontier districts at the expense of the brave and chivalrous men of the Frontiers. In launching an intensive agitation, "filmindia" did its duty towards the country and to say that only 83 persons objected to what over 40,000 endorsed, as has been broadcast by an hired editor of an Anglo-Indian film magazine, is to give perversity its full play. If those men who wield the pen lack the requisite moral courage and patriotism to protest when the nation is insulted, they should at least observe a silence, which would be considered golden by those who actually sacrifice their prestige and services. But to take up cudgels for the foreigner and support this dirty insinuating propaganda by trying to justify the production of pictures like "The Drum" is like trading in the soul to secure a crust of bread for the day. In the present days of the national transition of our country, journalists should be more responsible about what they write. As the principal