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mOTHiRk— n moonlight Palmist
India's Glamour Boy Oo. 1 Confesses
A Bad Insurance Risk
By: HYACINTH
I've aways thought important people made a habit of being late for appointments. This one didn't. He was waiting for his interview bright and early, looking like a thoroughly respectable citizen, (not that, film stars aren't) and oozing glamour only in small doses so that the office staff would not be overwhelmed.
Let me share this interview with you. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Motilal — India's original glamour boy and most publicised playboy and incidentally the best dressed man in pictures.
Perhaps I had better tell you a little about his pre-cinema days first.
Motilal was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he was always one tooth ahead of the other babies in his neighbourhood and he fell on his head several times which may account for his eccentricities.
Every nice girl loves a sailor they say, so Motilal as a youth inspired by this sentiment and filled with a wanderlust came to Bombay to join the Navy.
But Fate in the form of a film director intervened and since then the Navy has somehow managed to get on without Motilal. The director
took one look at the youth and thought: "This fellow isn't strictly handsome but he's got a certain something in his eye which I rather like and I think I'll make him a star". That was in 1934. and the first picture Motilal made was Sagar's "Lure of the City". Very appropriate don't you think, when you consider that Motilal has stuck in Bombay ever since?
■ but Fate in the form of a film director intervened.
....reads feminine palms exceptionally well, especially in the moonlight. . . .
Now he's way up at the top, the highest paid male star in India and the one with the largest following of fans.
MOTILALS SPECIALIZE IN EATING
I asked Motilal what he earned. He said "Oh I earn my living — you know — enough for my bread and butter". Later I learnt that he earned Rs. 2000/ a month without income-tax, and, I thought to myself, "This fellow can have bread and butter and cake too on a salary like that". Talking about food reminds me that Motilal is a connoisseur where food is concerned, or to put it more crudely he likes to eat, and he does. In fact he told me that he and his wife have enormous appetites. Anyways at twenty-nine
MOTILAL
he need not worry about his waistline.
If he did not have a charming home and a still more charming wife he would live in the swimming pool of the Cricket Club of India. He swims for two hours every day and only stops when he becomes waterlogged.
Motilal is an all round sportsman and plays tennis, cricket and rides with great daring. As a matter of fact he is daring to the point of foolhardiness, and if he hadn't been born under a lucky star Motilal would have been in a home for the maimed and disabled long ago. He's the sort of person who never realises that fire burns even after being burnt out times without num.ber.
He tells me he has broken every bone in his body at some time oi other, either in car accidents or In the sports field. The only part of himself he hasn't broken is his neck and that can be understood because
... .fee and his wife have enormous appetites.
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