FilmIndia (1939)

7L EDITOR'S IMIIb 1 • ! Headers "when you are worried " write to me. I will do my best j in serving you. Serious matters ivill be treated seriously, wliile i tiijijiant letters will receive Mice replies. — The Editor. 'rom: Bipin B. (Baroda). I am starting on a foreign tour this year. Will ananbala accompany me if I pay all her expenses? Why do you particularly insist on Kanan. She gets plenty of fun and excitement here without having to go to any foreign country. Why. I will accompany you, if you pay for all the expenses. But if you insist on taking a film artiste, then why don't you submit your proposal to Shanta Apte? She has been thinking, loudly enough, of going across and might accept your offer. ^rom: C. L. Victor Lazarus (Bangalore). How many Indian film actresses have been to lollywood? None so far, but one can never say. So many of them are nowadays threatening to visit Hollywood. I think Hollywood should be warned. ''rom: R. Ramana Murthy (Vizagapatam). Why did Nitin Bose introduce only two girls in ,'Dharatimata"? Because he hadn't more stuff on hand just then. Is Pankaj Mullick superior to Saigal in singing? Yes! Miles superior. ?rom: S. Karecm (Nellore). On the screen we see our Anglo-Indian screen |?ir!s in saries. Do they wear the same dress in real life? Yes, sometimes when they go out with the Indian directors. At ether times, the sari is an obstacle especially in motor cars. From: R. Dookie (Durban). If I become an actor in one of our film companies what shall I do? Everything else but act. You will begin by dressing well, swank and looking wise. And with this the average career of an actor begins and ends. From: Nanoobhai B. Patcl (Bombay). I saw the December issue of your paper very carefully but I could not find any advertisement from Prabhat. What has happened to these Prabhat people? If you miss the Prabhat advertisement in "filmindia", you will find it in another Anglo-Indian film magazine, with a message from Shantaram thrown in for grace. And after all done and said. Prabhat proprietors are pro ducers, and as such they must maintain the traditions of their competitors in the country. Several people are in the habit of singing film songs in their bath. Why do they do so? Why don't they sing these songs in the open? If they dare to sing them in the open, our producers would chase them and rush them into their films. Some of these amateurs sing better than our film stars and naturally enough, they must take precautions against our enterprising producers, by straining their vocal muscles in the confines of a bath. There is however another side to this problem. Most of these bathroom singers are nervous people, who unconsciously burst out into a song thinking that they are alone in the world. They hardly have any consideration for those outside. From: Barindra Krishna (Chupra). Please let me know why Mr. Shantaram or the authorities concerned at the Prabhat Film Co., do not allow their employees to let the public know their respective salaries? There is probably not much to know. It is a well known fact that Prabhat does not believe in big salaries as producers in Bombay and in Calcutta do. From: K. Krishnamurty (Tenali). My friends tell me that Mr. Shantaram directs all Prabhat pictures but puts other names like Damle, Fatehlal and Kale for a change? I don't think so. though Mr. Shantaram is reported to be helping his colleagues rather generously. After all Mr. Shantaram is the senior director and if he places his services at the disposal of his other directors to express his sympathy in their work, he is merely improving the pictures of his own company. Several common friends however state that Mr. Shantaram was largely responsible for the unique success of "Tukaram". What has become of "The Unexpected" which was sent to the International Exhibition in Venice? The picture was very well received by the judges and even Czechoslovakia offered to buy it, but Prabhat didn't fancy exploiting the foreign field just yet. 15