FilmIndia (1945)

FILMINDIA February, 1945. this solitary one. I wouldn't be therefore surprised if gentle "Jamsu" who claims to know everything about Indian music comes out with this song ultimately. In fact, music is a strong point in Jamsu's pictures, because he considers himself an expert in music. Why has Jayant Desai changed his production vogue by taking up "Chandragupta"? Probably to prove what a great comedian Chandragupta was in times of yore. Kiss MANI TALWAR (Rawalpindi) A Punjab film magazine says that Sadhona Bose slaps men when she is drunk? Is it true? Whoever has said that is a damn liar. So far as I know Sadhona does not drink anything except water and tea and sometimes an odd cup of coffee. Besides Sadhona is too feminine to treat men ihat way. It is quite likely that as a stage producer she had had to pull up a few workers for laziness or inefficiency and these people perhaps have spread wrong reports about her. Sadhona is a conscientious worker and when she is on her feet juggling with those bells, she creates enough rhythm to make the men in the audience drunk. S. AU (Dadar) These days I find Surendra (Bulbul) Desai moving on the race course like a somnambulist. Has he gone through some nightmare? I guess ycu are right because I have also noticed that strange look in Bulbul's tiny eyes. He looks like a shipwrecked sailor who has lost the ship, the anchor and the port all in one storm. That way the Desai family has several queer folks. Old man Chimanbhai looks out for the winning post in the wrong direction and wonders why all the horses run in one direction. Pygmy — boy Virendra makes hysteric faces and insists on telling Nalini that he is acting. Madhukar, another green chip of the old block carries a tongue longer than necessary and finds himself bitten unnecessarily. It is a strange family all round and like the author of "The Vicar of Wakefield" I propose to give a year of my life to write the story of the Desais some day. What is your H M V Chaturbhuj Doshi doing these days in Ranjit? He is probably thinking of ways and means to get rid of that female-voiced Kedar Sharma who has usurped his place at the feet of the Master. Chandulal probably likes a man with a woman's voice because in this combination there is both a thrill and a safety. I advise H. M. V. to get a thyroid operation performed if he wants to secure Kedar's distinctive voice. R. V. SASHITAL (Bombay) Is it true that Kapurchand brothers are the luckiest devils in the Indian film industry? They are reported to have bled the industry white? Absolutely untrue. Kapurchand's two younger brothers, Kevalchand and Zaverchand are, how 36 ever, leally lucky devils to have and to hold Kapurchand as their brother. Kapurchand's vast fortune is a one-man show earned with unique intelligence and extremely hard work in the midst of severe competition and enmity. This huge fortune he has shared equally with his two younger brothers, realising fully well that the two little ones often provide a severe handicap in Kapurchand's ambitions. Kapurchand has not bled the industry white as people think. He has merely turned every opportunity into profit which any other business man would have done in his place. Inspite of his huge fortune he still Works hard. Though he doesn't go out looking for business yet he never allows opportunity to escape when it knocks at bis door. When people go to him for business he presents them with five different proposals and whichever is accepted in the confusion, Kapurchand always comes out the winner. After Kapurchand closes a deal like this, he has to sit foi five months and explain to the two little 'Chands' the wisdom of the deal and even at the end of five months, the two little ones being as much at sea as befoi_, exclaim in utter wonder, "Wonderful Kapurbhai". Five months later, Kevalchand, the amplifier of the 'Chand' family, phones up friends about the great business deal and expects to be congratulated while Zaverchand cuts a new coat out from the Lalimli cloth and goes out for a walk on Marine Drive with the monarch-of-all-I-survey look. That is the way life goes on. One man earns and the others share. And the world of havenots round about the successful man call him a villain. Kapurchand's success is salted by sweat and sweetened by intelligence without forgetting a lot of luck. 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