FilmIndia (1948)

February, 1948 FILMINDI A ■ie Muslim masses. As long as the Sardar produces tories of planting vegetables in our backyards, lere will be no objection from the Muslims of India, ut no sooner he tries to give something controveral like "The Story of Kashmir", however just and •uthful, there is a likelihood of cinemas being burni down by the Muslim masses. So let Sardar Vallabhbhai plan his productions ith this warning in mind so that our Muslim inavs don't lose their temper unnecessarily. We have i» nurse them to redeem our souls and guarantee ■ace in this land which has just become free. BUL KALAM'S RELIGIOSITY! Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, our Minister for ducation in the Central Government is reported to ive said at the recently held Educational Confer!ice that religious instruction should be given in hools as an integral part of school education. If Maulana Saheb decides to carry his threat [|to action we shall soon have Allah, Bhagwan, mrist, Zoroaster and umpteen gods and goddesses ijaying stellar roles in our studies. That will shatter il our dreams of building a secular state and we ■all have Parted once again the old vicious game if religious fanaticism in which thousands have been illled in the name of religion. Christianity and Islam, the two religions which ■e fanatic in their zeal of converting others ami in There is some mischief in the eyes the way Suraiya is looking in Ratan Pictures1 social film "Kajal". ti'Piya Ghar Aaja-', a Ranjit picture, Meena Kumari looks like having some angry moments. creasing their numbers, may welcome Maulana Saheb's utterly Islamic suggestion but Hinduism and other liberal cults must condemn the very idea of poisoning routine state education of children with religious instruction. The flame of religion burns in a home and only in homely environments does man attain the spiritual needs of his life. Then there are temples, churches, mosques, fire temples and synagogues where people can receive their religious education from I heir respective sacerdotal orders. We have enough of temples, mosques and churches sprinkled all over the country like so many scabs covering angry ulcers of fanatical religiosity. In addition to this we have Hindu and Muslim film producers shouting in the name of Bhagwan and Allah every two minutes in almost every picture and asking the filmgoers to look to one or the other for a'l their needs from a tooth brush to a shoe lace. ] Recently several Pakistani Muslim producers have given us an overdose of Allah, Who has been forced to work overtime through several pictures which were mainly designed to propagate Islamic teachings and revive the one-time Moghul rule, though there are no Moghuls living in India now Quaid-i-Azam. the Great Moghul of Pakistan, being only a little Khoja. II