FilmIndia (1948)

February, 1948 FILM INDIA The way she is staring Khurshid (Jr.) is probably missing her "Bichhade Balam'' in the Ranjit picture of that name. K. NAGESH RAO (Bombay) Is marriage a bed of roses? On the first night when they spread roses on the bed without the thorns. From next morning married people grow their own roses and thorns. !MRS. BEEMGONI (Belgaum) Why was Omar Khayyam the only Persian poet Ito be translated so freely into English? Omar Khayyam was not a poet, he was an astronomer. He wrote verses of his Sufi philosophy as a hobby and Fitzgerald made him a poet. Actually Fitzgerald must be considered a greater poet than Khayyam. Don't you agree that whatever form of governIment we may have, the moneyed class always rules? Xot always, though it is ruling at present. Let us prey it WOrCt be for long. IB. THAN1R (Jodhpur) Mow do you spend your holidays? Working. \. S. RAHIMTOOLA (Bombay) Hey. you Banjara! Why do you stick to BomKay instead of travelling? I shall shift shortly if my doctor is not a liar. [r. VINAYA KUMAR (Kurdwadi) "Filmindia" is one of the very few Indian ma gazines which escape the printer's devil. How do you manage that? My wife is a witch doctor. She chases out the printer's devil every month. A. W. JALILI (Melvisharam) Is the doctrine of socialism advocated by the Indian socialists a real and constructive plan of healthy social reconstruction? The doctrine is all right but the doctors are sick and hungry souls and grudge the feed which others get. There is little to choose between the right and the left of the Congress in so far as the ruled ones ere concerned. MRS. SUBHADRABAI PARKHI (Poona) Can one become a good actor without being good-looking? Almost all our present-day actors are ugly ducklings. Rs. 500 IN 25 PRIZES EVERY MONTH The following prizes are awarded every month for questions which are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editor's Mail". 1st Prize: Rs. 100j-; 2nd Prize: Rs. 80 -• 3rd Prize: Rs. 50J-; 4th Prize: Rs. 40-; 5th Prize: Rs. 30 and 20 Consolation Prizes of Rs 101each. ' A reader can ask as many questions as he likes. Questions should be neatly written or typed if possible. Unless the letters are signed they won't be considered. In awarding prizes the Editor's decision shall be final and absolutely binding and no correspondence will be entertained. The names of the prize-winners will be announced in "filmindia" every month and the prize money will be remitted by Money Order. PRIZE WINNERS FOR FEBRUARY 1st Prize: Rs. 100; to A. B. Natesan (Madanapalle); 2nd Prize Rs. 80 to A M K Sundaram (Madras); 3rd Prize Rs. 50 to Shashi Kumari (Kotahi; 4th Prize Rs. 40| to A R Butt (Karachi.; 5th Prize Rs. 30 to Bulo T Harisinganey (Thana. and 20 consolation prizes of Rs 10 each to the following:— M. U. Pai (Bombay)T. R. Gurbuxani (Bikaner); Anant Rao (Raichurt; Ganga Prasad Mishra (Ba. Fiji) A Devaratnam (Bangalore); M. H. Rodrigue's (Kanpun; N. Venkatesan (Negapatam); Nari H Daswani (Bombay); Ratan Chand (Jodhpur)Merchant F. H. (Bombay); Prasumkumar R Ganguly (Jodhpur); C. L. Talreja (Bangalore)S. K. Mukerji ( Jubbulpore) ; Mohan Chandra Misra (Lucknow); K. Nagesh Rao (Bombay. • Mrs. Beemgoni (Belgaum); T. Vinaya Kumar (Kurduwadi); Pooran Chandra Pandey (Lucknow.; Ishwar V. Mahbubani (Bombay, and Ami Kumar Roy (Purnea). Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners. 31