FilmIndia (1939)
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1939
Mi: Hikmat U. Khan (Gwalior)
During the year, on which Indian picture, has H largest amount of money been spent?
|Dn "Sant Tulsidas" produced by Ranjit Movietone. I The salaries alone amounted to a lakh and twenty b :housand rupees. The picture is a saga of Dej./otion. Don't miss it. Even as a Mahomedan, ■you will learn much from it.
In: S. Ahmed (Baroda)
■I am fond of Saigal but his bald head is the only
Ig I dislike. Can you suggest any remedy? A3 Saigal is not asking the remedy, we can not grow anything on his scalp. In the alternative I suggest that you grow longer eye lashes, which may help you to like Saigal more, n: P. M. Mayan (Cochin) How can the husband of a film star rely upon sincerity of her love towards him while she beis in the very same manner doing anything and ything with her screen lover in the picture?
It is a pity that some of our screen girls do not know the same warmth of affection in real life. Had they done so, the husbands would not have grudged them their screen "affection". At home they become just wives and break the furniture.
m: P. V. Ramana Murthy (Vizagapatam) Is there any picture in which there are no girls?
I know one produced by Americans. It is called "Boys' Town". But in India, even Jaddan Bai disappointed us in this respect. Being a woman we thought that she would keep women out. But she didn't and she was in it too to multiply cur feelings. But keep this wish a secret. If some of our producers hear you, they will stop producing and then we won't get more pictures.
m: Suresh (Ajmer)
Which is the first Indian picture to be produced? who produced it?
The 1st Indian picture was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke who is called the father of the Indian film industry. The picture was called "Harischandra".
•m: M. N. F. Shaikh (Devlali) I Where and what must be the thoughts of Babui Pendharkar when holding Meenakshi, as seen in 1 picture on page 11 of your December issue?
] The same as yours perhaps. But Baburao is not I so sensitive now and he won't allow his thoughts J to wander. By the way, are you a bachelor?
>m: T. K. Pillay (Nagpur)
One of my friends is very anxious to act with •ita. How should he proceed?
FILM INDIA
Sabita is now a producer. So the best approach would be through her mother, who I am told, is managing her business affairs. Badami can also arrange on behalf of your friend. But why all this row! Has your friend any talent for acting?
From: K. K. R. Pillay (Razmak)
I am a soldier in the Indian Signal Corps. I want to join in a film company as an actor?
Better be shot as a soldier than as an actor. There is more glory for the former and more criticism for the latter.
From: Balchand T. Daryanani (Hyderabad)
What is your idea of Sagar's "We Three"? I think it is the worst picture of Mehboob.
Don't rush to conclusions. His next one "The Only Way" is soon coming. My opinion of "We Three" I wrote in the August 1938 issue of "Filmindia".
What is your idea about stunt pictures? The effect of these pictures seems to be bad on weak minded people.
Not only on them but also on the producers themselves. Most of them can be heard giving expression to their weak minds.
From: S. L. D. Roy (Calcutta)
Here, in Calcutta, there is a rumour that all the best artistes of New Theatres are going to be captured by Film Corporation of India?
Even if the rumour had some truth, mere capture would not take the artistes any far. Film Corporation must produce good pictures for these artistes. I however don't think that the Film Corporation can afford this luxury much longer.
From: D. M. Mudbidri (Poona)
Don't you think that our trailers of Indian films are unnecessarily long?
So are the pictures, which these trailers claim to advertise. Our trailers as we find them today convey a warning to the audience of what is in store for them. I think that a large number of people are scared away by these trailers and no wonder the picutres fail. The trailers are sometimes so long that one finds it cheaper to see the trailer than the picture. As a short synopsis of the pictures, the present trailers are good and leave no further desire to see the picture. But as trailers, intended to create a desire, they are just no good. Well, trailers need brains and that is what the producers are searching for.
From: M. S. Ramchandran (Madras)
What is the next picture of Shantaram in which it is reported that Shanta Hublikar is working in preference?
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