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December. 1940
FILMIXDIA
That's a fast one between Prabha and Ishwarlal. They do it that way in "Ummid' a Ranjit picture.
Gandhi unfolding his plan of satyagraha as he sat spinning on his charkha. I flew from Bombay to Delhi and back to report the inauguration of the first Air Mail service in India. and. thanks to the '"scoop'' of our London cc respondent, experienced the much greater thrill of bringing out the special edition announcing the actual abdication of King Edward — ten hours before any other paper in India! And all the time I wrote — reports of flower shows and motor accidents, editorial notes on political affairs, short stories, the Radio page, the Motoring and Aviation page, and the Science and Industry page!
I mention all these activities as nothing remarkable or even unusual for a journalist. Every young apprentice in a newspaper office is invariably put through the same mill far, being the junior-most member of the staff, all miscellaneous work is given to him. Indeed, I am sure most of my seniors in journalism have had even more exciting and varied experiences.
And. please don't imagine I am being irrelevant and getting further and further from the main theme of this article — why I be
came a film critic and why I am no longer a film critic. Indeed. in the preceding paragraphs, I have already given the answer.
I became a film critic for exactly the same reason for which once I became a radio critic or a law court reporter or a commercial page subeditor— because I was so ordered by
my editor. It was just another assignment, a new phase of my journalistic career.
But don't jump to the conclusion that the reverse is also true.
It was at my personal request that I was transferred to the news department. And. though it will surprise many of those who have been announcing my death as a film critic, that I have general permission from the Editor and a permanent invitation from Mr. Parvate, the present film critic, tu write for the Cinema Page whatever and whenever I like.
I AM NOT A DIRT\ JOURNALIST
I am no longer writing and editing the ' Chronicle'' Cinema page because I discovered, firstly, that, in trying to be a film critic I was in danger of forgetting to be a journalist. I was losing live contact with NEWS — and that. I assure you, is worse than death for a journalist. Secondly, for one reason or another I had managed to antagonise a substantial section of the film industry and, worse still, of the film press and when your own comrades called one a "dirty journalist" trying to blackmail producers for the sake of allegedly amor
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