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January 1943
FILM INDIA
V. Nagiah, SouLh India's best in acting, features in •'Bhagyalakshmi", a social picture in Telugu of Renuka Films.
ligion. No one heard him crying during childhood. They say that he always smiled when the naughty one snatched the cake from his hand. In youth he became a graduate and secured scholarships in Urdu, Persian and Arabic. He wrote stage plays and produced them in Urdu and English. Then one day he came to Bombay for eleven days and returned home after nine years' stay in England. In England, he wrote hundreds of short stories and some novels, the most popular being, "The Gong of Shiva." He broadcasted from the B.B.C. regularly and told his stories to the young and the old; carried out official historical research in ancient Indian Culture; came to India in 1939 for three months and is still here writing stories, giving broadcasts, writing photo-plays and entertaining an ever-increasing circle of friends. Ever graceful in speech, scintillating in wit, Dewan Sharar vunctuates his brilliant conversation often with subtle sarcasm which is lost on fools but loved by intellectuals. A remarkable spendthrift, Dewan Sharar makes a bad business-man. He sells his goods but forgets to collect the money fearing that the. customer would consider the procedure impolite.
A friend to all he has few friends. An adopted child of the West he is not quite at home in the East. Craving to go back yet unable to move; try
ing to settle down yet continuously escaping; spending incessantly yet earning stupendously; feeling the injustice of the world yet fearing to express, Dewan Sharar, author, playright, journalist, is a very charming, loveable and complex personality. By his own existence he denounces Kipling and proves that the East and the West can meet to create a new harmony of life and thought in the individual.
The last words of this man to the world will be: "If you will please excuse me, I shall now depart," and friends will say: "A gentleman has died."
RAJMOHAN NANDKEOLYAR (Patna)
Is it true that Miss Maya Bannerji has gone to the Middle East to entertain the soldiers?
Is it necessary to go so far to do that? Maya is too good an artiste to be spared for the Middle East.
R. P. SAXENA (Moradabad)
Did you pay something for showing your palm to Sadhona Bose?
Compliments. And she returned them with a lovely tea.
Lalita Pawar gives a rare emotional performance in "Gora Kumbhar" a social story of Chhaya Pictures.
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