Filmindia (1941)

FILMINDIA December, 1941 Jaswant Singh (Mansadevi) I have an earnest longing to hear you sing? Come over, if you can face the music. Madhukar C. Patel (Nairobi) It is heard that Meera, the daring actress, is getting married? Really? These girls are daring. I would think a thousand times before I get married again — that is if I get another chance. Ramchander Jain (Roorkee) Renuka Devi came to our college to witness a hockey match in which her husband played. We found her a little indifferent to the students. Will you kindly explain why she is so? Probably because she was not herself playing. Renuka likes a strong, vigorous game. N. D. Pawar (Junar) Some of my friends here are trying to bring some wretched prostitutes into society. Will V. Shantaram thank them for their enterprise? Why V. Shantaram alone, I shall also thank them if by introducing prostitutes to better people, your friends can provide an incentive to these girls to live a better life. Prostitution is not so much a moral degradation, as it is an economic necessity. No girl likes prostitution, if she can feed hei self otherwise. But let your friends make sure whether the society to which these girls are introduced is really good enough to receive the prostitutes. Good society dees not merely mean good dress, plenty of money, some education and a stream-lined appearance. Most of the girls we meet in Bombay's "good" society are worse than professional prostitutes. They lack even the p.imary honesty of the prostitute, who makes no secret of her means of livelihood. On the other hand the stream-lined big society prostitutes, and we find them in crowds on the race course, at charity dances, at clubs and even in socalled respectable drawing rooms, are more dangerous, more expensive and in return give less value, because of their clandestine pursuits which have no social purpose beyond filthy self-indulgence. Between these two types of women, I would prefer to be seen with an honest professional prostitute rather than with the clandestine social creeper who times her sex exploits between the day meals when the husband or the father is out sweating for the daily bread. Next time you meet a "good" society girl, look at her twice and make sure that she is really good. I bet, you will have to wait for months, unless you search among the unglamorous house wives. Miss Mohiiia Lall (Calcutta) Kindly give the private address of Director Kardar? Mr. A. R. Kardar, Zaver Mahal, Manne Drive, Bombay. He is an enterprising director and is always on the look-out for new talent. Write to him, if you are interested in working for the films. Madan Mohan Sharma (Agra) Does Ashok Kumar take op um? He looks a halfcrank in all his p ctures. No. He drinks milk and he is a full crank in the right sense. V. S. Gulvvadi (Madras) Isn't Meenaxi of Navayug Chitrapat beautiful? No, not by the widest stretch of imagination. But, like Myrna Loy, she is a warm house wife type personality and she usually shines in such roles. She is definitely not a picnic model for the suAmming costume, though her director Winayak once put her in one, for reasons known only to him. As an artiste Meenaxi hasn't much acting talent, but as a type she is highly suitable. Is Meenaxi married? Yes. To a boy called Shirodkar — quite a modest, harmless sort of a chap who takes delight in his wife's success. I think he is quite happy. Jogendra Nath Misra (Bhagalpur) I have learnt that you are going to join the war? No, our producers are not that lucky. Even Dalsukh Pancholi with his unique luck in "Khazanchi" can't expect this windfall. Akhauri Baikunth Nath (Ranchi) What special features did you like in Pancholi's "Khazanchi"? The story was familiar to me being taken from "Way of All Flesh" but it was a good screen plot and worth translating into Hindi. What appealed to me most were the snappy tunes of Gulam Haider and the simple compositions by Walli Saheb, the popular song writer of the Punjab. The general snappy atmosphere, punctuated by those two teasers Romohi and Manorama, was also a featu. e of the fi.im. Salvi and Meenaxi seem to coo together in "Sangam". a Navyug picture. 22