FilmIndia (Jan-Nov 1942)

'November 1342 FILM INDIA YOU WILL HARDLY BELIEVE— That Sardar Chandulal Shah flew into a temper I when he saw that Director Barua produced a better I trash in "Jawab ' than he could manage in "Shadi"' and "Pard^si" — The eighteen thousand odd rupees which p'Jawab ' collected at the Imperial in the first week kept the Sardar wondering whether he should give up cotton speculation and rush back to film-production. That Directors Jayant Desai and Chaturbhuj Doshi apologised profusely to Sardar Chandulal for producing jaShadi' and "Pardesi" and promised never to repeat !the mistakes aga n. And in return Sardar Chandulal igenerously agreed not to h re Barua to add some new ;pec:men to the Ranjit treasure-house. That Distributor Chunilal Desai is furious because ie is not appointed the Minister for Evacuees seeing .hat he has been looking after that beautiful Bengali I evacuee", Leela Desai, so well. That Leela Desai has responded so well to the delijate care of "Chacha"' Chunibhai. that she now looks |:ke the "Govalan of Gujerat". That refusing to be beaten by 'Chacha" Chunibhai, jiandsome debonair nephew Bulbul Desai ;s handling i mother charming 'evacuee' problem in Sadhona Bose. (Vith Sadhona saying: "Bulbul surprises me with his -intelligence". That, not to be outdone by his brother, Virendra Kpesai, another worthy scion of the distinguished Desai family is reported to be grooming Nalini Jaywant to tardom from day-to-day by fresh publicity. That all these family activities compel old ChiIJ nanlal Desai to put himself into cold storage for the iresent, having no outlet for his own artistic emotions. That Director Shantaram refuses to be robbed of ^ lis morsel of publicity even in his personal charity and ias therefore agreed to throw a few crusts in the way 01 f the million poor of the city. That Director Shantaram could not digest the roten lunch which the Rotarians gave him and hit them •ack pointing at their overflow of money, while forJ erfcng his own. h That Director Shantaram blushed red when he had ^ 3 admit "film ndia's'" good work for the Indian film idustry. That producers Chandulal Shah and Jamshed Wadia ot the blues seeing Shantaram blushing red. That Ex-film man. Akbar Fazalbhoy could not understand this change of colours on normal human aces considening that 'filmindia was proving a good ledium for RCA. advertisement. (That producer-distributor Baburao Pai has decidd not to chaperon any more young giris in their teens ind groom them for film stardom. His last essay in flriis fie'.d being frustrated by an attack of laughing ysteria, compelling him to take the girl back on a :retcher to Nagpur. That Prcducer-artiste Baburao Pendharkar is compelled to run down to Bombay to acquire the Burma evacuee atmosphere to pick up some realism for his new picture, "Cash And Carry' , in which the problem of the Burmese is being tackled. The Burmese girls In Bombay declaring Baburao Pendharkar as: "not at all a bad man' . Who ever called him a villain? Not we! That the Gujerat: 'Sisters' of Bombay have decided to lead a deputation to Director Vijay Bhat, asking him not to produce "Ram-Rajya", remembering well the number of congratulatory functions they had to attend to hear Vijay Bhat s lectures on why he produced "Bharat Milap"'. That after Sushila Rani's tactless exposure of Pandit Indra's lack of adventure in the realms of kissing, Pandit ji is reported to have bought a lipstick to mark his face every morning to convince the studio colleagues that girls kiss even him. That the news that Producer Jamshed Wadia tried to secure the previous post of Shantaram in the Film Advisory Board, and was refused, is entirely false. That Producer Wadia is too busy producing 'Ekta' and 'Dukta', be they in Sindhi or Singhalese, to hit the headlines as a pioneer even if the pictures don't pay their way. That 'Gentie' Jamsned Wad a is very much hurt that the Rotarians did not invite him to lecture and conferred the honour on V. Shantaram, for whose appointment on the Film Advisory Board. Jamshed thinks he :s entirely to blame. That the Rotarians have promised to rectify the mistake by inviting 'Gentle' Jamshed and serving him with "Dhan-Sak '. With a Burmese a'.mosphere, Baburao Pendharkar gives new colour to the screen in "Cash And Carry". 19