FilmIndia (1945)

FILMI NDIA November, 1945 Poets are weak-kneed platonic lovers. They waste time in describing women while others use time in kidnapping them. Woman is the most intriguing problem God has given to man and it is no wonder that so much prose and poetry is spun around her, more so because the woman likes it. Why do film-fans waste so much energy in writing endearing letters to stars ? Their day-dreams have to escape somehow and it is safer to find them taking shape on paper than elsewhere. Which of the two can expect more love from a man; a wife who soothes or a beloved who woos? I have yet to find a soothing wife. If there is one anywhere I would like to print her photograph in "filmindia." A beloved rarely woos but if she does so, she can extract the maximum love from a man. Men are generous brutes. A. K. FAZLUL (Ambala) Are you a believer in the saying: "Love At First Sight"? It is high time we overhaul this slogan. It should be: "Lust At First Sight" and "Love After Losing Eye-sight." The way you are boosting "Chhamia," it seems Begum Para has hit you in the eye. I boost pictures before release as every magazine should do. After release, I criticise them as truthfully and honestly as I can do. Para can't hit me in the eye with her green horns because I am colour blind. I needs brains to wake me up and only grown-up women have them. If Suvarnalata acts in less number of pictures, we would like her more? I am prepared to fall in love with her if she stops appearing on the screen. Who is acting the title role in "Lord Buddha" of Prakash Pictures? If Ranjana is playing Yashodhara, Vijoo would not like to act Buddha, because the hero has to leave the heroine and go away to the jungles. Vijoo does not believe in leaving people alone. So another hero will have to be found who will leave Ranjana alone by going away quickly. Then Vijoo can direct the rest of the story. What has happened to Nitin Bose who was once a successful director? He has now become a mint master, and is still successful as such. Nitin has made more money in the last two years than in the rest of the years since his birth. I suspect that he is suffering from artistic amnesia seeing that he cannot recall his brilliance in "Dushman." Why do child stars lose their stardom when they grow up? Their limbs grow giving them curves and corners where innocence can no longer be nursed. What do you think of Pandit Indra becoming a producer? It is a believe-it-or-not story of the day. M. B SAWANT (Bangalore ) Are you easily provoked ? Not in business, nor in work but the slightest ripple in my world of emotions can raise a storm that can frighten many. How would you deal with a person in whom success has gone to the head? I would aim at the heart leaving the head to float three thousand feet above sea-level. Do politicians also need publicity like film stars? Politicians need it more than the film stars because the politicians have neither beauty nor talent to present. They have popular slogans and egocentric ideas to sell and this can be done only by being in the news constantly. Cut a politician out of a newspaper and you take away the oxygen of his existence. The newspaper photograph of the mammoth crowds round Jawaharlal Nehru is more important to the politics of the nation than the actual utterances of the Kashmiri Pandit. As the theme is the same, politicians only echo the sentiments of one another. A politician without publicity is like a bird without its plumage. MATAM M. MOORTHY (Anantapur) How is it that any secretary you take will invariably be a woman? Quite simple. I search for a woman and it is not difficult to spot one seeing that our women wear saries. 10 CASH PRIZES FOR 10 QUESTIONS The proprietors of "filmindia" will award every month 10 cash prizes to the readers whose questions are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editor's Mail". The Editor's decision shall be absolutely final in awarding the prizes as follows: 1st Prize Rs. 25]-, 2nd Prize Rs. 20-, 3rd Prize Rs. 15 -, 4th Prize Rs. 10|-, and 6 consolation prizes of Rs. 5| each. The names of the prize-winners will be announced every month in "filmindia", and the amounts will be remitted to them by Money Order. .No correspondence will be entertained. PRIZE WINNERS FOR NOVEMBER 1st Prize Rs 25! to Miss Shanta B. Shah (Viramgam); 2nd Prize Rs. 20| to M. G. Chandarana (Karachi); 3rd Prize Rs. 15] to Miss Mani Patel (Ahmedabad); 4th Prize Rs. 10| to A. K. Fazlul (Ambala); and 6 consolation prizes of Rs. 5|each to Chandradan K. Pandya (Ahmedabad); K. S. Krishnamurty (Bangalore); N. Krishnaswamy (Bangalore); R. S. Murti (Coimbatore) ; Miss Shyama Sitlani (Karachi) ; N. S. Phatarpekar (Bombay); Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners. 38