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June, 1943
FILMINDIA
The dispute has been settled and Shantaram has been paid off. Shantaram is now no longer in Prabhat. The other partners have now seriously gone into production and two pictures "Ten O'clock", a social and "Ram Shastri", a historical are already on the sets. Ahmed Abbas also tells people that he has sold a story to Prabhat. That makes a third one lo be produced.
Kokila N. Lognathan (Kolar)
I find the theatres in Kolar Gold Fields are awful?
What do they do with all the gold they dig out every year. Can't they spend some of it on the theatres? I think they have turned the theatres also into gold mines.
Dosso S. Couchman (Surat)
Where shall I write to get an autographed photo of P. Jairaj?
College Road, Matunga, Bombay.
Who is Mumtaz Shanti?
A new sales argument for Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall, otherwise a new pet of Devika Rani.
T. V. Subramaniam (Poona)
Would you mind giving me the private life of Ashok Kumar?
He has no private life. Do you want mine?
Nur Jehan and Ibrahim wring the screen of its last drop of emotion in "Khan Daan", a Pancholi picture.
M. K. Shirazi (Vizianagram)
Why has Motilal left Ranjit?
To work with Sabita Devi, to be directed by Badami, and to pay off his debts. That is the sum total of his present activities.
C. C. Bodiwalla (Ahmedabad)
After "Hamlet", why don't our producers try to produce other plays of Shakespeare?
Wasn't "Hamlet" enough? Poor Shakespeare! Why not let him lis in peace! Hadn't he enough trouble when he lived?
Jamshed S. Gotla (Dharampore)
I am knee-deep in love with Leela Desai?
You are still at a safe depth and careful girls also prefer it that way. Don't let the love rise higher or you will be lost.
S. C. Rao (Nagpur)
What do you think of the future of the Indian film
industry?
Inspite of Mahatma Gandhi calling the cinema an evil, inspite of Jawaharlal Nehru snubbing our cameramen, inspite of some financiers being sharpers and a large number of producers being useless, inspite of our having several boot-licking journalists, inefficient directors and technicians and a hundred other obstacles, not to mention the keen foreign competition and the shortage of raw films, our film industry will still thrive and continue to play its part in the life of our nation.
A. S. P. Bhimji (Nairobi)
Where is that music director Timmir Barren nowadays?
His name is "Timir Baran". I don't know in which wilderness he is at present as I have not heard of him recentlty.
Sushil K. Ghosh (Margherita)
I want the address of Miss Protima Das Gupta? Worli Sea Face, New Worli, Bombay.
Massand J. B. (Rohri)
Why don't you answer the questions asked by Sindhis? r ,
Because some of the questions asked can only be replied to in private and not in print. When these Sindhis learn to ask the right questions in the right way the right replies would be given. Besides, the Sindhi language which I have heard from my Sindhi friends so far does not help to grace the human tongue. I am sure there are many people in Sindh who do not misuse the language thus, but many of those who come to Bombay often prove themselves a bad advertisement for the province.
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