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October. 1941
FILMINDIA
Devika Rani end Ashok Kumar meet on the screen after a long time in "Anjan".
germ has long before been killed. You can not expect anything from these men.
Hemandra Nath (Chandausi)
Our Warden one day came to our room and asked me to put the photo of Leela Desai (on Bata calendar) into my box. Are the actresses so mean that we can not use even calendars with their photos on them?
No. I think Wardens, like the one you have, are realh; mean. They have a perverted sense of morality. There is nothing wrong with a film actress. She is subject to the same temptations and weaknesses as any other woman in any other walk of _life. That Warden of yours should have died twenty years back. He has no right to live in 1941.
Miss Sharda Oberoi (Lahore)
I li^ve got a little monkey called Moti, and it is very intelligent, I wonder if Motilal will accept it as a present?
Sure, he will. .Motilal will like to meet his namesake. But after giving your Moti away, if you miss it, aon't come in its search to Bombay.
Mrs. Sheila Misra (Delhi)
Do you think that the film producers can really afEord to pay four figure salaries to actors like Motilal?
Do you think that film producers are fools to be doing so? They are hard boiled business men and
they would pay even six-figure amounts to the artistes if they could afford to do so. After all, this big money is paid by people like you who see the pictures and not by the producers. Motilal is a very popiilar artiste and deserves every rupee he gets.
D. N. Panjnigar (Poona)
In "Tal Mahal", the role of Mumtaz Begum is played by Sarojini. Don't you think she is a bit too heavy?
I don't know which picture you are talking about and who is this Sarojini. There was a girl of that name in Mohan Pictures, but she is hardly the type for tlie role you mention.
K. Kameswara Rau (Masulipatam)
Why are you so fond of Nagiah the popular artiste of South India ?
You have said it. Nagiah is popular. And I am a lover of talent. There are very few artistes in the rest of India who can be compared with Nagiah in music and acting. And Nagiah is a gentleman in addition. In the midst of the shrieking and thundering stage gentry of the South, Nagiah, the true artiste, comes as a welcome relief to a connoiseur. Nagiah makes even the Tamil language sound sweet and reasonable.
K. S. R. Iyer (Madras)
Who Is this Neena, the mystery woman of the screen, who is appearing in Shalimar Pictures? Can I get her autographed photo?
Shobhana Samarth as "Seeta" in "Bharat Milap", a Prakash costume picturq, ■ ■ — I