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June, 1942
FILM INDIA
Wondering! Shamim adds sex appeal to "The Guest", a Ranjit picture.
" I saw a little while back a picture called "The Birth of a Baby." That is my idea of an educational and a propaganda picture. There was not a single celebrated star in that picture. All the people who were doctors, nurses, patients, husbands and wives in that picture were quite ordinary folk. With what wonderful effect, the picture teaches how girls and boys in their teens, in marital, prenuptial and post-nuptial stages should behave and take care of the new borns. What effective propaganda against abortions of the undesirable sort and in favour of birth control of the right kind did the picture contain! I wish some producing company here got permission to copy that picture, with slight alterations to suit the Indian scene. It would be a very necessary social service."
THE DOCTOR'S MISFORTUNE
"I am, in no sense a film man, not even fan. I reckon it as a misfortune. But when sufficiently advanced in life, you cannot change your habits and tastes. My only passion is books. I am a voracious and I hope a discriminating reader of them. I write a book, now and then, when there is an irrepressible prompting. But I do wish films were my passion. They are undoubtedly a far more effective and
potential means of education than books. Most men have to learn by visual images, pictures of things. You make full use of all your senses, when you see a film and that makes education easier and more effective. If my message has any value to readers of "filmindia" I shall ask them to take as varied
and as absorbing as possible an interest in films and their manifold uses for social well-being and social service."
Here I butted in, "don't you think that a film of the movement for the uplift and liberation of the depressed classes as it has developed till to-day will make excellent propaganda for the removal of untouchability from our midst, if some idealist and progressive producer does it ?"
"Of course it will. But our producers have yet to get out of the mythological stupidities, oddities and deification of mere men. Indeed, you are making an exceedingly welcome proposal. Instead of having the stories of Ekanath and Chokha Mela with all their eccentricities and miracles as superstitiously transferred to the screen as they are chewed with delicious devotion by our Kirtankars and Puraniks, which promote superstitions on a vast scale with 20th century apparatus, our producers will do well to depict how the depressed class movement has outgrown its humanitarian and religious shell and broken into a selfreliant movement, demanding the Rights of Men.
Producer-Director Kardar so always a good host. At the Governor's Pavilion in the Cricket Club, he gave an exclusive tea party to Producer Dalsukh Pancholi (second from left). To Pancholi's left is Shobhana Samarth and to her left is Baburao Pai and to the extreme right is the
host, Mr. A. R. Kardar.
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