FilmIndia (1939)

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TElili US FRHNKliU: (Mainly intended for the intelligent Readers) Come on, readers, here is your chance to criticize us. We are giving below some questions and request you to answer them frankly and intelligently. All the replies will be very carefully gone through and some of them will find a place in the Silver Jubilee Number of "filmindia", provided these replies reach us before the 15th of March. Remember, that on your opinion, will depend the excellence of the future issues. We are anxious to give what the readers want, but they must tell us what they want.— (The Editor). Q. 1. What do you think of the general get-up of "filmindia"? Q. 2. What do you think of the pictorial or illustrated aspect of the magazine? Do you like the colour plates? Q. 3. What do you think of the writings and the journalistic standard attained? Q. 4. Which particular sections do you like and why? Q. 5. Why do you buy "filmindia"? Q. 6. How many friends of yours, or people in your family read your copy? Q. 7. Are people anxious to read "filmindia"? And why? Q. 8. Do you approve of the intense propaganda carried on by "filmindia" against anti-Indian pictures? Are you aware of the fact that "The Drum" was banned in several provinces solely due to the agitation of "filmindia". Q. 9. Do you frankly think that "filmindia" is easily the best film magazine in India? And why? Q. 10. In your travels, have you missed "filmindia" at any station where there is some sort of a bookstall? Q. 11. Do you feel that "filmindia" is doing splendid service to our film industry in several ways? Q. 12. Do you believe that "filmindia" has created more cinema fans in the country? Q. 13. What do you frankly think of "filmindia's" criticism on pictures and other matters of the industry? Q. 14. As a reader, what suggestions have you to offer to improve "filmindia"? And now mark your envelopes "Criticism" and post them to the Editor, "filmindia", 104, Apollo Street, Fort, Bombay.