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August 1942
Raizaday Shri Narayan (Meerut)
Has Saigal left New Theatres? I am dying to hear his sweet voice.
Please don't die so soon. Live at least till "Bhakta Surdas" is ready. Saigal is at Ranjit working in that picture.
M. G. Narayan Rao (Bangalore)
It grieves many a heart to see that a militant nationalist like you should criticise Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru!
Had I not been a nationalist I would have no cause to complain. But I don't believe in heroworship and deification of human beings. I am sure, Pandiiji himself does not like deification. Haven't we enough "gods" in our mythological pantheon without adding Pandit Jawaharlal to the gallery? Surely, it will be an insult to the ultra-sensitive and intellectual Jawaharlal to be classified with warrior-gods like Krishna with his umpteen wives and Rama with a niggardly one wife. Krishna, to keep his own flag flying, inspired a fratricidal war of annihilation, while the other guy kept running across India in chase of the man who had kidnapped his wife. The personal exploits of these two human kings have become the religious scriptures for the Hindus because of two poets — Vyas and Valmiki — having soaring flights of imagination.
Pahari Sanyal seems to be telling Leela "Kisi-se-na Kahana".
FILMINDI A
Romola and Gyani feature together in "Khamoshi", a Supreme release.
I think Jawaharlal leads a more useful life than these mythical gods of ours and Indians should not spoil Jawaharlal by blind hero-worship and stupid deification. Let us keep him a human being with his human privilege to err and be corrected.
L. M. E. Pantulu (Bangalore)
I regard Producer-director Kardar as a very brave person to advertise on the first cover of "filmindia", seeing that it is such an expensive job.
It does not require so much bravery. Kardar is a wise man and he knows the advertising value of "filmindia". I think it is cheaper to advertise in "filmindia" than in the rest of the movie mags put together, seaing the country-wide coverage offered by "filmindia".
Zakir Raza (Sultanpur)
Do you think, reading "filmindia" is a fashion? Not only that. It is a passion.
Is it true that Prem Adib is going to be married at Lahore this winter?
I know that he was to be married last winter in Bombay but something went wrong. For another winter marriage he must go to Lahore. He can't risk it again in Bombay. Prem Adib's marriage affairs are too complicated for me to keep track of them.
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