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June 1943
FILMINDIA
Hansa Wadkar comes to the screen in "Apna Paraya", a social story of National Studios.
times a day, why the hell don't we put in a total effort in every direction?
Yes, Sir Frederick, we need one more Defence of India regulation to make our exhibitors show our war shorts for which our tax payers are footing the bill. And we also need a change in the distribution department of the Film Advisory Board".
It took our efficient Government twelve long months to throw off the mask of democracy and to realize that we were fighting a total war.
And actually now when it has stumbled into the right direction we find that most of the leading cinemas in the country are already showing nearly 2000 feet of war propaganda per show if the Indian Movietone News and the F.A.B. footage is to be added.
What the Government has failed to clarify is whether the Indian Movietone Newsreels are being counted as an item of war propaganda and whether its footage can be included in this 2000 feet margin.
We can not understand why the Government can not draft a single Defence Rule efficiently, precisely defining its full scope and why must it always be vague and uncertain in the phraseology used.
We would like to know whether the 2000 feet now decreed is to be in excess of the F.A.B. shorts and news
reels footage already being shown in our theatres, or whether the new Defence Rule covers these already existing items.
That calls for a new and revised Defence Rule and if the Government of India can't find the right people to draft the new rule, "filmindia" will not mind obliging the Government by sending a new and precise draft.
Coming to the ultimatum conveyed in the communique that the raw film supplied will be conditional to the Indian film industry producing war propaganda films, on principle we condemn the coercive element in the said communique. It is anti-democratic for the Government to coerce its subjects whilst shouting from the houses-tops that it is fighting a war for the freedom of the world.
And yet fully realising the actual mood in which the Indian film industry is with regard to this war, we are inclined to condone the Government measure inspita of its inherent element of coercion.
To put it frankly, the Indian film industry has contributed nothing towards this war to bring the victory nearer — nothing willingly.
While the American film industry has gone all out to support the country's war effort by producing several war propaganda films and by sending out its famous stars to collect huge funds, the Indian film industry has
As "Parvati" in "Shanker-Parvati", a Ranjit picture, Sadhona Bose gives some celestial dances.
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