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November 1941
FILMINDIA
huge conference on the lines of the last Congress held here. But still a select body of producers, distributors, directors, artistes, technicians and others can proceed to Madras during Christmas to confer with your South Indian comrades_ You will get the maximum publicity possible in the newspapers, and let me tell you, they are all very anxious to see you, to extend to you every possible co-operation in the matter of publicity or otherwise. And thus you can all unite and succeed in evolving a common scheme for achieving success so that the Industry can make the authentic voice of a free India heard."
BABURAO PATEL REPLIES
Thanking the distinguished guests for the splendid response given to his invitation Mr. Baburao Patel said : "As a journalist I am a spokesman of the industry. It is my job to propagate the different activities of the people in the film industry as it is my duty to fight for seciwing for
it privileges and reliefs which are so badly needed today in every department. I have been doing my bit, as well as I can, but to do more I shall require the united backing of the whole industry.
"But I am sorry to observe that this united backing is not there. At the last Motion Picture Congress people fought to pass several pious resolutions but now I find that none of them has any fight left in them to carry those resolutions into effect. In this industry people promise very easily but later on they don't worry about fulfilling those promises. After the last Congress they closed the community centre and each one ran back to his own shop to chase individual profits forgetting that on the good of the community in general depends the progress of the individual.
BLAMES SARDAR CHANDULAL
"And yet for all this I blame one man. Sardar Chandulal Shah. He
is the one man in the industry, who because of his intelligence and competence and financial position, can deliver the goods. If the Sardar wills it, the industry can still be properly organised and stabilised. I appeal to him to put his shoulder to the wheel again and take us all out of the bog of decay for a period of five years more and then' if he wishes, leave a well organised industry in youthful hands.
"Once again we have promised to meet in Madras for the general welfare of the industry. It is again a new promise. Sardar Chandulal has been the first one to promise. I know that nothing will happen. Nothing ever happens in this industry. I know my industry and my producers better than any one else. I have been with them for twenty years. And yet I would like to be surprised — at least once — this time."
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