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January, 1942
FILMINDIA" AND "TIME"
Letters from friends in Hollywood are pouring in (congratulating Editor Baburao Patel on what Hollywood thinks is an achievement for an Indian movie magazine.
The reason is: "Time" the famous American newsweekly in its issue of the 3rd November has reproduced 2xcerpts from the ever popular "Editor's Mail" in 'filmindia": —
INDIA
UCH A THING
In Bombay's movie fanpaper, Filmindia, Editor Baburao Patel conducts an unusuallypiquant question-&-ans\ver department. Last week Hollywood learned how Editor Patel does it.
Excerpts:
Q. Are there any raw-film manufacturers in India?
A. No. But we have directors who expose the film and make it look more raw than ever before.
Q. What is the exact relationship between Anuradha and Rafiq Guznavi?
A. Come, I give you the guess.
Q. I hear bad rumours about Director Shantaram. Every man from Poona and Bombay says that Shantaram has done such and such a thing. I am sure that he is not a person to do such a thing. I think that Mr. Shantaram is aware of his fame and would not have done that thing. So you must tell the public that Shantaram is innocent by publishing his innocence in the next issue.
A. And I must also publish my innocence about what you are talking.
Q. Please tell me, which is the easiest way to get a job in a film company?
FILMINDIA
A. Get hold of the most attractive girl in your town and bring her to a film studio.... The other way is rather roundabout.
Q. Whenever I see a romantic picture, its effect lingers with me for five days and I cannot prosecute my studies. What shall I do?
A. Stop seeing pictures. Studies first.
Q. How many of our actresses are virgins?
A. I don't know much about the actresses being virgins. This is an antique commodity in a modern world and you may find it in r«ral surroundings.
Yes, it feels international to be quoted in "Time" with its three million and odd circulation. Thanks, America.
HULLO, INSPECTOR PAI!
War and chaos, fighting and bloodshed, storms and floods or for that matter even an earthquake — one and all together would be wasted on Inspector Pai of the Bombay Board of Film Censors.
For a year now we have been at his throat to put some more sense into our censoring laws to protect our growing children from the corroding influence of bad pictures which glorify crime or underline sexplay shamelessly.
But Inspector Pai, beyond giving us one assurance that "he is moving in the matter", does not seem to have done anything to remedy this state of affairs.
To help him think, we published the Gwalior censoring rules, which struck us as surprisingly sensible and yet Inspector Pai is where he was years ago.
May we know why? Have the Government stopped paying him his salary regularly?
If not, then why is Inspector Pai irregular in the execution of his obligations to the public?
Have we now to agitate to remove such an experienced man as Inspector Pai and risk our censor department with an amateur?
ndia's great character actor Mazhav Khan becomes a director. He is here on a location of "Meri Duniya" a social
picture of National Artistes.
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