FilmIndia (1945)

April, 1945. FILMINDIA rities refused to hear the usual lame excuses when some cinema bosses waited in deputation and chewed the old gum of numerous heaven-sent difficulties in the way. We heartily support the authorities in their official fiat and watch with amusement the fast and short methods with which the theatre -owners are trying to remodel their houses to meet nominally the letter of the law. It would be well if the higher authorities in Delhi don't leave the supervision job to the subordinates whose honesty is not always above suspicion. And theatreowners would not stop at bribing gods in heaven. DREAMING OF HOLLYWOOD! Believe it or not, Kishore Sahu, one of our young producer-directors, is likely to hit the headlines in America. Reading "filmindia's" review of "Raja", American distributors are anxious to secure the distribution rights of "Raja" for general release in the coast-to-coast circuit for foreign films. Writes Pete Harrison (of "Harrison's Reports" who in addition to being the leading critic of America, controls large distribution interests) to Baburao Patel: "Will you be willing to communicate with the producers of the film to write to me directly, telling me what they would want for the rights for the entire continent, North and South America, or for the United States and possessions alone". If "Raja" goes to America it wouldn't be long before the adventurous Kishore will follow suit. For a long time Kishore has been dreaming of a picture in Hollywood and seeing that his dreams have been coming true, one by one, I wouldn't be surprised to read one day in the Los Angeles Times, "Young Indian Producer Takes Hollywood By Storm" Kishore has the seeds of genius in him. All that he needs is a big opportunity. His present job in hand is "Veer Kunal". Let us see what he makes of it. FOLLOW THE A. I. R. LEAD It is a welcome decision which the Broadcasting Department of the Government of India has taken with regard to the language on the AIR In future, there won't be any separate broadcasts in Hindi or Urdu and the general and official language will be Hindustani, in which the popular and simple words of both Hindi and Urdu would be fused together to meet the demand of trie largest number. We congratulate the Hon. Sir Sultan Ahmed on this decision. It has in it the seeds of our future national freedom. But what do we see on the Indian screen which should undoubtedly be the most powerful medium for spreading the national language in the country? In India, pictures are still produced in Hindustani, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Canarese, Bengali and Punjabi. That gives our industry nine tongues with which to talk to our people. Some deep-dyed Muslim producers insist on calling their production-language as Urdu even though seveneighths of it is good Hindustani understood by all. This courtesy is returned by the die-hards among the Hindu producers, who use hundreds of Urdu words in their dialogues and yet unblushingly label their productionlanguage as Hindi. This is all damn silly. Can't the people in this country do something sensible and useful by meeting one another half-way? M « » WAG Oxhibitote el SOUND SYSTEMS Available from stock complete equipments, all spare parts and Arc lamps for high and low intensity operation. Apply for details and prices to : INTERNATIONAL THIiKIE EQUIPMENT COmPRNy. 17, Netv Queen's Road, Bombay, 4. Phone: 20892. Gram: "SOUNDHEAD" Branch 18, MOUNT ROAD, MADRAS. *