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FILMINDI A
October 1940
Tell me^ what are your reactions when you see an European girl in miserly shorts covering the city promenade with tiny steps? Tell me, how do you feel when some Hollywood pictures fling a row of bare legs in your face. Tell me, also, what happened when an array of legs got in the eye in the Marcus show sometime back in Bombay. You didn't mind them because those limbs belong to another country. There is nothing vulgar in nudity. I have seen Eve in Paris as God made her and all I felt was an admiration for His handiwork. But if you approach the problem with a preconceived mental reservation, you feel that society is getting a set back. It is the mind that chooses to wander beyond prescribed limits and find vulgarity. I think Meenaxee looked better with the swimming costume than with her nine-yard long sari. Why not visit our popular city swimming baths and get your eye used to seeing the future belle of India. What you need is a tearing of the traditional veil from your eye. Don't look at new things with an old eye. Your education should give you a more progressive outlook than your father had.
R. L. Bhargava (Delhi)
"Dipali" of Calcutta says that Padma Devi is very fond of dogs and has a bull-dog at Bombay. Will you kindly tell me to whom does this refer?
Probably to me because I am Padmadevi's friend. And I have no objection to accept this professional courtesy as I feel that a bull-dog is a better thing than a lap-dog especially from the "Dipali" province.
Were you "Pagal" before "Pagal" or have become "Pagal" after "Pagal?"
A little before and more so after. How about you? Let us have your health report.
M. M. Singh (Cawnpore)
I consider Leela Desai as the best actress of India. Do you?
No, I don't.
K. G. Vasanth (Secunderabad)
In the Prabhat and Huns pictures I find the technique to be good but their Hindi diction awful. Can this not be remedied?
Prabhat is remedying this and in "Dnyaneshwar" there was a marked improvement. "Padosi" will be better in diction. As regards Huns} Baburao Pendharkar and Winayak think that they know all the Hindi that is to be learned in this world.
V. R. Hemmady (Coondapoor)
Compare the acting talents of Padma Devi and Jamuna?
See "Hindusthan Hamara." Both the girls are working in that picture and you will know their respective talents.
K. Desai (Bijapur)
Why is "Bharosa" called the social "Pukar" of 1940?
One day you will hear Sohrab Mody becoming the Shantaram of Persia.
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Sadhona Bose and Ahin Chowdhary make a splendid team in "Raj Nartaki" a Wadia picture.