Filmindia (1941)

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August 1941 FILMINDIA That people want to know how many dinners Miss Shamim gave to "H.M.V." Chaturbhuj, seeing that she is so prominently featured nowadays. That Film Actor Motilal promises continuous banquets to Sardar Chandulal Shah, if the old Sardar promises to cast him in some decent roles. That Cameraman Krishna Gopal, affectionately known as "K.G.", nowadays needs star-support for correct exposures. They say, smaller the diaphragm greater the depth. That Film Star Snehaprabha Pradhan, inspite of her cool temperament, has been affected by the recent heat wave in Bombay. Poor girl, she couldn't work for some time and she had to hold up Badami's shooting Why not sit for a while in K.G.'s air-conditioned laboratory? That Ahmed Abbas, now story writer Abbas, has again succeeded in selling a story, this time to Director Kardar. People were wondering why Abbas v/as so often seen with Kardar. That Ahmed Abbas liked "Sister" immensely and stayed behind an hour to tell so to Mehboob. He also liked "Amrit" and wrote a letter to Director Winayak. So now you know where the next two stories will be sold. That one day Abbas will also like a Ran jit picture and Sardar Chan.dulal will suddenly buy half-a-dozen film stories. The Sardar buys them by the dozen. He gets them at a concession. Is it life re-acted? Motilal tries to save Madhuri from the thorns in "Sasural", a Ranjit comedy Don't blame Motilal seeing what he sees in "Sasural" a Ranjit picture starring Madhuri and Motilal That Pandit Indra is the most worried man nowadays seeing that Madhok has started writing good songs and Abbas has started writing film stories. That when Film Actor Motilal read Secretary Rita Carlyle's palm — daylight palmistry — he prophesied great danger through the house of Venus. Did he mean, Editor Baburao Patel? That Editor Baburao Patel returned disappointed from his Madras tour as he was all the time surrounded by male directors, male stars and male producers. That Film Actress Pramilla has suddenly discovered new charms in Producer Gvalani and she is often heard saying "Oh, how sweet he is?", "Oh, what a darling!" etc.. 2to. Pramilla's mother thinks that she is reciting film dialogues in sleep. Producer Gvalani should really keep his charms in check with Leela working so hard for him. That Leela Chitnis stayed for some time in Lonavla during the shooting of "Kanchan". Mr. Gvalani, of course, would start for Lonavla very often but, owing to company perhaps, would never reach it. That outdoors of "Charano-Ki-Dasi" brought Director Jagirdar and Film Actress Vanmala into a closer cooperation and the previous individualistic way of working being immediately abandoned, "Charano-KiDasi" turned out to be a picture of poetic harmony. Producer Atre, of course, supervised the shooting pointing out the highlights to Kusum Deshpande. That Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall has not yet begun his sales talk of "Anjan" the new Bombay Talkies pic 11