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Mr. Satyamurthi Hits All Round Sardar Chandulal Pleads Guilty!
The offices of "filmindia" looked like a miniature Motion Picture Congress on the 14th October, when Editor Baburao Patel gave a tea party in honour of Mr. S. Satyamurthi, M.L.A. (Central), the Deputy Leader of the Congress Party in the Central Assembly. All the leading producers, directors, technicians and stars were present and nearly a dozen studios had to be closed at mid-day to enable the people to attend the function at 4 p.m. Sardar Chandulal Shah presided.
NOW A COTTON MAGNATE
Welcoming Mr. Satyamurthi on behalf of the industry, Sardar Chandulal thanked Mr. Baburao Patel for giving every one an opportunity of meeting the venerable guest after two long years. Deploring the lack of progress after the first Motion Picture Congress the Sardar said "I do not know who is to be excused and who is to be accused. But I can tell you this much that those who want to avoid the share of responsibility point their finger only at me, though I am out of it. I had done my duty and although I plead guilty to some extent my defence is that I am no longer a film magnate. I have become a cotton magnate. I can tell you today that cotton is being quoted at Rs 202-8, yesterday it was Rs. 213, and whether it will go down or up. Some people now think that in view of cotton taking a greater part of my time, I am better out of the film industry_ I feel that atleast now that we have met again we should do something. You know that I have always been an advocate of this industry of ours. On behalf of the producers and distributors I can give
an excuse that they are all very busy men and they cannot do anything all by themselves. We are charged with being lethargic, idle, unwilling. But if we shirk our duty we are doing harm to the film industry of which we are but parts.
PLEADS GUILTY
"Just now Mr. Satyamurthi asked me a question as to what had happened after the Film Congress held two years back. This gathering has given us the opportunity to put to ourselves that question and to answer it also as to why the idea of co-operative effort in a common cause which was behind the Film Congress was not kept alive and why
we did not build more on the foundations which we had laid in Bombay under the able guidance of Mr. Satyamurthi. Let me anticipate the answer and accuse you all and accuse myself as well and admit that we have not done anything. We have done nothing to carry out the several b!g resolutions of the Conferences jointly or severally passed in the general interest of the film industry. There was an effort in Bengal to hold the second Indian Motion Picture Congress but it did not materialise. There was also some attempt at Lahore in that direction but the result was but a small gathering and nothing to be proud of. Mr. Satyamurthi passes through Bombay