FilmIndia (1948)

FlLMINDlA January. 19< has taken across his money, gold and jewels and in some cases even his cars and furniture. Having deported his wife, children rnd mistresses safely in Pakistan, he lias become a professional ferryman between India and Pakistan constantly carrying across something or other till the last bit of tinsel is taken across and deposited in the Garden of Allah. Many Pakistanis in the film industry have not yet settled their income-tax accounts with the Indian Union and it is not exactly a state secret that these people have made lakhs of rupees as war-time profits. Our income-tax department is too notoriously slow ?«nd cumbersome an institution to stop tins slick community in time from taking everything away. Tiie Indian are not a bestial race to restrain the women to guarantee the behaviour of their men. but they can with complete morality demand from these ferrying and fleeing producers a substantial deposit to meet their legal income-tax dues when their cases are finally settled. In the meantime those greedy Indian capitalists, who are buying up studios, property, films and other assets of these Pakistanis at greedy prices and thus helping them to take their wealth to Pakistan without even paying the income-tax on previous profits, must be railed traitors to their own land. Mrny a rich Bania or Marwari is these days buying up film studios or films, strangely enough paying good juices to these Pakistanis, and thus directly helping them to defraud our Government at its legitimate dues. We don't want the Pakistanis ro Etey behind in India and breed a race of fifth columnists but we do not like this daylight robbery Ti'om day to flay and it is high time some one stops !t. DODGING DISTRIBUTORS ! Some of the foreign distributors of American films have already found a way out of the strict censorship problem presented by the Bombay Board of Film Censors. Realizing that foreign pictures arc being banned by the Bombay Censors, these distributors are getting their pictures examined by the Bengal Board of Film Censors. It is reported that the Bengal Borrd of Film Censor* is practically a one-man show with a single Inspector ruling the roost. Because of this one-man law, film censoring in Calcutta is reported to have become merely a farce and formality. With no local film critic worth his salt available in Calcutta, the foreign distributors find it easy to get even the most objectionable pictures passed by the local censors. "The Strange Woman", a picture produced by United Artists was straightaway banned in Bombay, but this very same picture is certified 28 suitable for public entertainment by the Bengal Board of Film Censors — the one-man show. Realizing that it is easier to explain things and convince one man in Calcutta rather than a crowd of alert members of the Bombay Board of Film JAI HIND FILM EXCHANGE OFFERS YOU FOR 194 S si: ISO \ Mangal Pictures' Hindi Social Al) AT, AT A Dynamic Drama of ' GRAM PANCHAYAT * Directed By VASANT JOGLEKtR Starring: BABURAO PENDHARKAR, SAL VI MADGULKAR, JOG SHALINI. RAJ AN (II I NAVYI/G's Social Saga P A R O O A Story of Social Persecution Directed By SHOREY DAULTALVI Starring : G E E T A NIZAM1 RANDHIR, Ranjit Kumari ( III) NAVY UQ's Domestic Comedy S H I K A Y A T A Sparkiing Version of Two Best-Sellers Directed By SHAHID LATIF Starring : SNEHPRABHA NIGAR, SHY AM New Ready for Release ON THE SETS Mangal's Marathl Comedy DUSARE L A G N A DUected by RAJA PARANJPYE COiMTACT Jai Hind Film Exchange 116, Charni Road, Bombay 4.