FilmIndia (1948)

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(February, 1948 FILM INDIA It helps us to widen our outlook and enrich our minds. I suppose dl will agree when I say that "in ■ducat ion the cinema can play a tremendous part. The suhjects ivhich are taught in the class•ooms, if screened, will have a greater effect on our young minds, )ccause 'man prefers to look raiher than to listen'. For the proluction of such educational and ■ultural films we naturally look jo our producers. But their past ecord disillusions us. Besides hese films would not be able to |arn for them "tons and more !ons" of money. But our National Government can produce such Urns p.nd exhibit them free of [ost. Will they?" B. Chakravctrty. CASGANJ (Etah) SUCKERS ALL! I "On every Sunday morning. lew Delhi cinemas exhibit Hindustani pictures. In spite of the I act that these pictures are too Id, the gentry of New Delhi go lb these clean and hygenic halls ||jr entertainment. I, too. with my I pur friends went to see 'Dil', a 'azli Brothers' hit, featuring Nur ehan, in Plaza, a local cinema. (In the 16th November 1947. It f las an utter surprise to note that iA'0 complete reels were missing in the said film and the show was over in a very short time. How to get rid of these blood-sucking capitalists. .Mr. Patel?" NEW DELHI. Sushil C. Jain. WISE SUGGESTION "A lot of confusion arises by not numbering seats in a cinema house. Last year. I had occasion to ventilate my grievance through the columns of "filmindia" and I suggested that cinema managers should not allow people to tie 'kerchiefs or rags to the seats and "reserve" the seats. "The other day while viewing a picture at the "Aurora", I had to exchange hot words with a 'gentleman' who had tied a 'kerchief on two chairs and said "these are reserved for my friends." Even after the show had commenced, none of his 'friends' turned up, and I called the doorkeeper who asked the gentleman to remove the rags. The gentleman threatened the doorkeeper with dire consequences and the poor man subsequently did not persist in his argument to get the rag removed. "The only way out of such awkward situations is for the cinema house managers to number every seat." BOMBAY. //. S. W&rayan. Anjum in Ranjit's 'Bichhade Ba lam", a social picture. DON'T WONDER—SHOUT! "Three or four years have passed since a touring talkie named Imperial Cinema has by some mysterious ways established itself permanently in Kamntee. The irony of it is that it still continues to operate in a temporary structure. Looking at the problem from the cinema point of view and that too in the interest of educational propaganda, one begins to wonder whether the installation of a temporary structure justifies the description, touring talkie. ;\nd thereby evade the payment of a much higher tax imposed on permanent structures. Moreover, Kamptee not being a very thickly populated area, does not need more than two talkies to cater for its cinema going public. When there are already two permanent cinemas functioning, how can one justify the need for the continued existence of such touring talkies? "I Wonder how the municipal committee at Kamptee could allow such a touring talkie of a purely temporary structure to land close to the already existing two cinemas which have been nicely built and are of a permanent structure." Shri Gulab Sinqh. KAMPTEE, (t.'.P.) 63