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February. 1941
Nalini Jaywant and Kanhyalal in ''Radhika" a National picture.
text or another in the hotels, at the shops and even at its show places. I know instances of visitors being relieved of their beddings and suitcases. In Bombay, people don't do things in such amateurish ways. They leave the bedding behind and pick the pockets.
K. D. Mathur (Jodhpur)
So often you wTite articles urging educated girls from good society to join the film industry. Wliile on tlie other hand you write short stories vividly describing the bad practices in the film industry. How do you reconcile these two things?
It is the primary craving of a human being to build a home. In the life-time of a human being a home is built once and never twice. So all his activities, his work, his pursuits, his ambitions, his thoughts must contribute to make this home happy and peaceful. Even the film art has to become a willing hand-maid to make this home a place of peace and love.
When a woman leaves her home and family to become a film star, her one aim in life should be to bring back to her home greater comfort, greater happiness and greater glory. That is the only way
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success should be cashed on the counter of life. The stories of Sudlia. Surekha and Sandhya which appeared in "filmindia" are intended to serve as lighthouses in the stormy waters of glamour and greed. They show to the mariner danger sprots where the rocks are located and where life's craft can be wrecked. Light-houses have never scared away good mariners. Similarly these stories should not scare off really good girls. The stories have charted the stormy seas and pointed the correct way. It is for those who take the plunge to avoid the rocks, remembering all the while that art must contribute to make a home happy. For, in a lifetime of struggles if a person has not built a home — what has he or she done?
To Adam paradise was home. To the good among his descendants, home is paradise.
Chandrika Pd. Verma (Bhagalpore)
Please let me know the whereabouts of Meera?
Last heard in "Pak Daman" a Stage Film Co. picture produced at the Minerva Studios. The future is not known.
Is there any magic in the name Baburao? I find all Baburaos. e.g., Baburao Pendharkar, Baburao Pai. Baburao Patel held in high esteem?
The magic of action. They are doing their bit to reach the goal they have set themselves. But what you consider "magic" is really the noise they make.
Which is the best picture of 1940?
Kumar and Maya once again come to screen in "Madhusudhan" a Circo picture.
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