FilmIndia (1948)

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(In ihij section, the editor himself replies to queries from the readers. As thousands if letters are received every month— some anxious on<l sex eral frivolous it is neither bossible nor convenient to attend to all. Selected letters are usually treated in an informative .nd humorous strain and no offence is meont to anvone.) GURUDEV SINGH (Patiala) What do you take as the secret of success of our pirn actrerses? The catarcct in the eyes of the audience and the tumour in their brain. They say luck favours the fool. Do you agree? Nonsense! A lucky man never looks a fool beccuse intelligence is a part of the luck. A. M. K. SUNDARAM (Madras) How will you regard the British people as a focial race? Quite social on empty stomachs. Feed them and they belch out racial arrogance. What is an Atom bomb? The only moral support for American international strategy and the main pole of the Marshall Plcn. What do you think about Indian women's right o divorce? It is a statutory cockroach which will rarely encroach on Hindu home life. H. U PAI (Bombay) Have you ever had the pleasure of seeing a remit of "filmindia" act in a picture? One boy named Kitchlli has played the hero in some picture but I have not hed the misfortune of seeing the picture yet. Don't you think that a pcinful ulcer is an enough evil unto the day? If the Indian government were to send you to akistan on a diplomatic mission, would you acept the offer? For dip'omacy you need a Gujrati e.g., Munshi in H'ydercbad, already in love icith the A'izam. I am not a Gujrati and besides I can't be diplomatic about Pakistan of all places. R BUTT (Karachi) When should a man many? When he starts contaminating the neighbourhood.^ Which is the most 'progressive' film company India at the moment? The Ran jit. They produce anything in the hope of making something. Some day they may produce the biography of a race horse or the life of a dark gambler. NIL KUMAR ROY (Purnea, Bihar) Why do some educated boys and girls not like to marry though they like meeting each other on intimate terms? In these days, marricge means a job, a flat, a cradle, a feeding bottle and whet not. With the present shortages in all things, young people have to restrcin their desire. SURESH H MATHUR (Sendra, Manvar) Is there any Pard actress on the Indian «creen? There is Veera whose long Parsi nose you can see from a mile. BULO T HARISINGHANEY (Thana) }S hat is your considered opinion about the manner in which Sardar Patel is handling the States' question? / cdmire the way he has pocketed the tiny httle states and aJso admire planting little Munshi in Hyderabad as an earnest of future intentions. Hamuli Kaushal will now be seen in ''Do Bhai", a social story of Filmistan Ltd. 21