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[In this section, the editor himself replies to queries from the readers. As thousands of letters are received every month — some anxious and several frivolous — it is neither possible nor convenient to attend to all. Selected letters are usually treated in an informative and humorous strain and no offence is meant to anyone.}
G. P. Kejriwal (Benares)
Why are the artistes from Calcutta flying to Bombay?
Some male artistes seem to have come because whisky is still available in Bombay. One of them, whom I know, has not opened his eyes since he arrived in Bombay. He has already rolled down six staircases within a short time. Some of the girls seem to have come to rejuvenate our distributors and rekindle in them the flame of romance.
Miss R. Reed (Karachi)
Who is Khursheed's husband?
He is a big hefty fellow. They call him Lala Yakub. He has been a film actor but he is more popular as Khursheed's husband. Why do we have the same story in nearly all the pictures: love between a rich girl and a poor boy or vice versa? Don't these pictures become boring?
Yes, sometimes, when they overdo it. But, riches always add thrill to love while poverty lends purpose to a romance. It has always been so. Somehow the two extreme ends of life seem to flirt with each other too often in an attempt to bridge the gulf. The flirting only widens the distance and leaves the poor more poor.
Bhuvaneshwari Devi Malaviya (Gorakhpore)
I want to join the films. May I know whom to see? And how to proceed?
There is only one chance for the new comers at present and that is with Producer-director A. R. Kardar who has only recently floated a big producing company under the name of Kardar Productions. His production programme is very ambitious with three social pictures: "Shardrt', "Bindhja", and "Namasthe" and two costume pictures: "Shah Jehan" and "Omar Khayyam". For these pictures he needs a number of good looking girls and boys knowing Hindusthani and with face and talent for acting. Write to him at: Zaver Mahal, Marine Drive, Bombay, sending him all the details, with a couple of your photos and if you are any good, you will be taken. But be quick, Kardar won't wait for you.
Narayana Murthy (Madras)
How many women graduates are working in our films?
Only a couple of them who have hit it well. There are many more In our universities who should take up the screen as a career but I guess they get too exhausted through sheer sex starvation parrying the boys, to have any energy left for hard work which the screen demands. They are, however, welcome if they care to come. We do want educated talent. And the girls won't be lacking in bold and chivalrous lovers who are far better than the college variety which throws merely paper darts.
Jaswant Singh (Agra)
Does Sohrab Mody know that he keeps a majority of people in the dark about his activities by not informing them through "filmindia"?
Ulhas comes to the screen after a long time in "Basant", a picture of Bombay Talkies.
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