Filmindia (1941)

October, 1941 1 1 L M 1 N b I A Miss Sushila Wagle (Bombay) After your comments on "Bastards or Directors" in "filmindia" oJ! August, do you still advise society girls to join the screen? Yes, I do. There are bad people in every walk of life as there are rocks in every sea. But that does not ttop people from enterprising. A really good girl can still be a big. success in our fil^n industry— inspitc of a few bastards here and there. I know several girls who, keeping good character as their sheet anchor all along, have achieved great success. Strangely enough most of these girls do not corae from big families or boast of any college education. It is usually the so-called educated and sophisticated girl who is mote than responsible for the dirty work in the film industry^ K. Popakat (Mysore) Several Government servants of the Police, Electrical, Railway, Income-tax and Postal departments, have become regular pests to the cinema theatre ow^ners. They worry the cinema man to issue free passes not only for themselves but lor their wives, children, relatives and even friends. A refusal often brings reprisals in its wake. Can you suggest a remedy for this? As a man in business the showman cannot afford to rub it the wrong way with these official executives. But some public spirited person cam, bring this shameful state of affairs to the notice of the higher state authorities and if they are conscious w of their duty they will stop their subordinates from misusing their privileges. This practice was once rampant in Bombay and the local Police took their pound of flesh every week from the showmen, till "filmindia" made a noise about it and Mr. K. M. Munshi, the then Home Member to the Government of Bombay, had to issue strict orders forbidding this questionai le practice. Your complaint does not speak much for the democratic fibre of the Mysore State. I was always under the impression that Mysore was a well managed, well disciplined progressive state. M. C. Ahmed (Cochin) In "Padosi a Muslim and a Hindu are given the parts of a Hindu and a Muslim respectively. Would it not have been more realistic if the part of the Hindu had been played by a Hindu and the Muslim by a Muslim? When Shantaram selects a cast, he does not bother about a man being a Hindu or a Muslim. He worries about the suitability of a person for a role. Houever, don't you think that in assigning the roles as they have been, Shantaram has also proved to our communalists that there is nothing to choose betu een the Hindu and the Muslim and that one is as good as the other or that one can always replace the other? Your sense of realism begins by separating these two sons of India. No, my man, they are like the proverbial Siamese Twins and can't be separated so easily. ? HAT DO AVERAGE piclure-making— Including indoor pholography and snapshots a) night with " Photoilood " lamps— seldom calls for elaborate equipment. You can gel most of the record pictures you want with a simple Folding "Kodak". Kodak Anasligmat Lenses are highly corrected and Shutters give exact liming: the whole unit is thoroughly tested before 11 reaches you. y/ir eod^ to mukE, NEED IN A CAMERA SIX-20 "KODAK" KOPAK JUNIOR 8 PKTUDES: 3*"x 2i" Rs. 55 KODAK LTD. (Incorporated in Bombay — Calcutta — Lahore EngrlancI ) — Madras LENS Kodak Anasligmal f.6.3. focussin" on lens mount. Wilh f.7 7 lens. Rs. 45 only. SHUTTER "Kodon": Time, Bulb, 1/25 1/50, 1/lCO sec., wilh body-release \o preveni blurred pictures throueh camera-shake . Both direct-vision and brilliantreflecting Viewfinders; two Tripod sockets; Hin^ed-back easjr.Ioadin« 29