FilmIndia (1945)

December, 1945 FILMINDI A picture as "Draupadi" seem • td have determined to rest on your oars, while your numerous admirers desire that you . should again give us something • different from the common rut of the presentday pictures and thus enable us to1 satisfy our craving for novel themes and neat pictures. "Again taking into consideration the fact that you have at your disposal the services of one of the most, talented and charming ladies of the screen — Miss Sushila Rani-^ whom millions of her fans are dying to see again, it is our earnT est request that vou should again give us another eood picture which will not only satisfy the intelligent public but will also enable you to win fresh laurels and enhance the prestige of the Indian Film Industry." AJMER. Saran Beharilal. LEFT BEHIND "Only recently I had the opportunity of seeing Shantaram's 'P.P. A. Dera' and I came to the conclusion that Shantaram must have forgotten' to take his brain with him when he left the Prabhat. What do you think?" TRICHINOPOLY. ...C. R. Shiva Ram. SHOOT AWAY "If only I had a gun! At least a little over half a dozen producers should thank heavens that I haven't got one. "I'm pained. And I'm discouraged. These people who boss the film-making concerns seem to have put on the skin of a rhinoceros. Perhaps they have also lost all sense of values. Otherwise I wouldn't have written what I'm writing. The condition of our films is hopeless. (There is no other appropriate word fcr it.) And the tragedy is that nobody is doing anything about it in right earnest. "And, by the way, Mr. Patel, why don't you do something with a view to breaking open the gates of our film industry to educated and sincere young men who want to adopt direction as their career? Or are you also one of those bloody "Haves-' who do not feel disposed to have anything to do with the "Have-nots"? NEW DELHI. K. P. Sethi. LACK OF IMAGINATION "The managements of our local cinema houses display poor imagination in booking their weekly programmes. In . this big town Patna — the Capital of Bihar — we never get pictures as soon as they come out of the studios. Pictures, which are released at other places months before, or m some cases years earlier, are freshly released in our local cinema houses. Thus they lose much of the charm and interest and naturally don't draw well. "What is more funny is that we find very old pictures running here for the third or fourth time, while we literally 'starve' for new pictures. Why don't they get rid of such stupid method of business? PATNA Amar Nath Kapoor VERY SORRY "Ma*. Baburao Patel, you have offered a fabulous price "of Rs. 3ifor few particular issues of "filmindia" which are missing from I' ! II your files. Is it not an insult to a collector to accept Rs. 3 for a single copy? Ycur yeomen services to the Industry in general and fVm-fans in particular cannot be forgotten so eisily, especially when you are donating few pages every month under the caption of "Woes & Echoes". No doubt the eld issues of "filmindia" are like an antique relic, which one should be proud to possess, yet those should be returned to a man whom the readers owe much. Mr. Baburao Patel, have ycu forfeited this little hope from your readers?" KARACHI. T. K. Advani, T rate -mark rcftalentf 8e££ S c&wegg MAKERS OF THE WORLD'S FINEST EQUIPMENT FOR HOME AND PROFESSIONAL MOTION PICTURES. Houston PROCESSING PLANTS FOR 35 AND 16 m.m. FILMS, CAMERA DOLLIES, MICROPHONE BOOMS AND ASSOCIATED STUDIO AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT SUPER STUDIO LIGHTING EQUIPMENTS CEIESTIOH THE HIGH QUALITY LOUDSPEAKERS All types of photographic and Cinematographic lenses and other optical appliances Also for all your other Photo Cine sound requirements, write to CANADA 8LDG . HORNBY RD BOMBAY 63