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FILMINDIA
Kishore Sahu returns to the screen in "Punar Milan" a Bombay Talkies' picture.
an obscure state, and the third to write publicity blurbs for studios on Sundays instead of playing with his children as he would like to.
SAVE YOUR TEARS, ' WELL WISHERS"!
For the time being I leave their ranks and the first spell of freedom is thrilling. No longer need I get
Vanmala is coming in Atre Pictures "Payachi Dasi."
up early in the morning and, bleareyed and unshaved, rush to press shows often only to be turned out. No longer need I avoid meeting producers and directors on premieres for fear of having to say polite things about rctten pictures. Now I can pay for my seat and walk out of the show if the film bores me. I can dine at Motilal's place every day of the week and for that reason not become self-conscious when seeing his next film. Hitler and Mussolini can't complain that on the news pages I am net giving them sufficient publicity and it is a pleasure not to have to worry how a certain remark of a headline or a caption would be received by the producers, directors and stars. I am definitely enjoying my holiday from film criticism.
But I am yet far from being out of the film business altogether. Before I got a divorce from the Cinema page I had agreed to collaborate on the script of "Omar Khayyam." Since then I have written anothor one fcr Bombay Talkies (that way perhaps I may be able to give some literally "constructive" criticism!) And the All India Radio still courts the producers' displeasure by allowing me once a month to poison the air with my reviews of films.
As for those "well-wishers" who seem to be too much "worried" by the dark rings round my eyes and my "unsettled state of mind", let them try, in addition to seven hours daily work in a newspaper office, to write, revise, re-write and re-write in four months two corn
December, 1946
M. K. Radha in "Prem Bandhan" a Tamil picture.
plete scenarios — one for an incorrigible perfectionist like Shantaram and one for a smiling slave-driver like S. Mukherji.
No, Sir, all things considered, I am doing fine. Save your tears and send the money you would have spent cn wreaths and flowers to the Storm (that passed!) Relief Fund.
Indurani in "Thief of Tartar" a Mohan picture.
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