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December, 1941
FILMINDIA
Sumati Gupte and Master Vichal in "Old and New" a Famous Arun social picture.
These girls are having a swell time of their life and they often use their intelligence to justify their criminal acts.
On the other hand, the oiie-time professional prostitutes who were drafted in for their beauty and music have become comparatively better women new having got success and money in the vert serious profession of film acting. And these women are now establishing better traditions for the future. Some of them have got married and have settled down to a respectable life and generally these girls behave with more restraint and respectability than their educated society sisters who had come to lend their social weight to the industry but have now become the incubators of fell diseases.
G. R. Bhanja (Cuttack)
I wrote several letters to Kishore Sahu c/o Bombay Talkies but got no reply. Where is this dashing young man nowadays?
This dashing young man is now acting a bachelor father in a comedy of Paramount. You write to him to his home address: Sarah Villa, Shivaji Park, Dadar, Bombay and the guy will reply.
S. Z. Aldroos (Bombay)
What is Zabak's home address?
That is one thing about Zabak that cannot be given. He probably has too many creditors who have been trying to find him for years. Do you know that Zabak can't use half the roads in Bombay, as tailors have acquired the lazy habit of wasting time standing in their doorways.
Khabibur Rehman (Monghyr)
Can you tell why the cinema has become a mania -with the student* of to-day?
Because of the popularity of "filmindia" among the students. The recent Readers' Research reveals a percentage of 42.9 as exclusively student readetship.
Why is the New Theatres of Calcutta going from bad to worse every day?
Really? Some of the South Indian papers don't seem to think so, nor does Mamoojee, the Bombay agent of N. T. believe it. One thing I know, is they don't seem to be giving good pictures nowadays. But that may be according to plan.
Surendra Nath Dube (Cawnpore)
A friend of mine has fallen in love with Manorama who worked in "Khazanchi"?
So have a hundred friends of mine. But what does Manorama care!
Jaghmohanlal Gupta (Loharadaga)
Who is the best dialogue writer from the following: Kashyap, Sudarshan and Indra? Kashyap.
M. K. Ahmed (Mwanza)
To which part of India does our Editor belong? India proper, old boy.
Please give me the name of a reliable institute in Bombay, where one can learn sound recording?
The Abdulla Fazalbhoy Technical Institute, St. Xavier's College, Fort. Bombay.
G. P. Kajriwal (Benares)
Trilok Kapur resembles Prithviraj. Why?
Well, I don't know why, but they happen to have the same parents. Do you think, that is the reason?
R. Sewdurson (Durban)
Are Baby Indira and Baby Suman really babies, drinking milk?
l^sha Mantri seems to he thrilled to be with Vasant fhengdi in "Munieipality", a Marothi picture oj Brillioni,
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