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October 1940
FILMIXDIA
he finds that some of the writers whom he once embraced as clean and honest men now hit him below the belt on personal grounds. Chandulal doesn't mind a most trenchant criticism of his productions. He says that the pictures are put up for either public approval or censure, but he does pity the writer who unreasonably flings himself at him in a mean and dirty way, simply to give a push to a cheap film actress who happens to be tied with the writer emotionally. Chandulal is a capitalist today and knows well the chink in the armour of the newspapers. He fully realizes his power of controlling the policy of papers through the instrument of the advertising revenue. But he still remembers the day when he was himself a struggling writer and doesn't forget the old tie of comradeship. This is what our writers should remember while writing against one of our few pillars of the industry. I would myself mercilessly criticize Chandulal if I am convinced that doing so is in the interest of the industry, but hitting below the belt is not my job. And Chandulal knows that. My friendship with Chandulal is founded on mutual respect and each of us admits the right of the other to conscientiously pursue his ideals. Chandulal is prepared to shake hands with every film journalist on the same ground but when writers indulge in dirty favouritism smelling of personal motives it is a bit too much for him. And when those who brag of "principles" and "honesty" do this dirty work, it is really a height of ingratitude.
K. Mohammed Ebrahim (Balehonnur)
I am told that India Artists has been closed as Mr. Kishore Sahu has left the concern?
India Artists has not been closed but Kishore Sahu has left to become an actor in Bombay Talkies.
Why has your Hollywood representative Ram Bagai come to India for?
To shoot some scenes of local colour for an American institute, to take back some Indian stories and pictures to America and to see for the first time the land he was born in. He is going back this month if the Japanese don't stop him in the China Seas.
Massand J. G. (Karachi)
I don't think as much of Sabita's acting as I think of Padma's. Do you?
What an unnecessary question! Let us wait to check up notes till we see Padma again in "Hindustan Hamara." By the way, next time you write to me don't use different names from different places. Be honest. You are fooling yourself and not me.
P. M. C. Thangal (Calicut)
Is Devika Rani likely to act in more films?
Oh, yes! She will be seen in a couple of pictures in 1941.
M. S. Narsimhachari (Bangalore)
Of late I find that there are not more than two or three art plates in 'filmindia." And I feel that you are not justified in charging eight annas per copy.
Surely, you are not a frame maker! If you have been buying "filmindia" for the art plates, stop buying it and spend the money on picture post cards. You get some good ones from France.
Ajit R. Merchant (Bombay)
Our film actresses often appear in scanty costumes (e.g. Meenaxee in "Brahmachari") displaying their limbs. Don't you think that scenes like this tone down all sense of decency and morality and that they are a disservice to our society?
Face to face and so beautifully! Motilal and Madhuri make merry in "Diwali" a Ranjit picture.
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