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February, 1948
FILM INDIA
It is a nice after-wadding pose Mukhtar in "Toote Tare", a social
taken by Shamim and Sheikh story of Omar Khayyam Pictures.
CHEATS, ALL!
"The other day I had the sad ijmisfortune of seeing Mohan SinLa's '1857'. Even though I have a predilection for historical pictures il am really scared of such historirals which have nothing of history in them. '1857' is not a historical record of the First War of pur Independence popularly callEd the 'Great Mutiny' but merely i love story of a romantic young .ouple; nobody would even dare [to believe the theme. The picture I s badly directed and its music is i j'ar from being satisfactory.
"I cannot understand as to why Home directors delight in giving [us rotten pictures under wrong !ind attractive labels. It is nothing short of cheating, I think."
CAWNPORE. Shosi Datt.
WELL, CENSORS !
"It is a pleasure to note that |lhe Censors are working relentlessly and conscientiously to defete such portions from our Urns which are filthy and constiute an insult to our cultural heitage and social conventions and || |hus save millions from being drivn into the morass of vulgarity ind bestiality.
"I gather from the editorial of October's "filmindia" that a part of the scene of Pfabhat's "Aage Badho" immediately after the song sung by the dancing girl where she is shown collecting cur
rency notes offered to her by customers has been cut.
"I, therefore, feel called upon to point out that exactly similar incidents have escaped deletion in Mehoob's "Elan", the most immoral picture of the year. There is a scene where a boy of hardly ten years is shown offering a silver coin to a dancing girl of nearly eight years in a dance-gathering arranged by him only, with such a greedy look in his eyes as it he were the master of all licentious practices. These incidents are repeated a, dozen times in "Elan" and I am sure that if the Censors mete out justice to all, "Elan" would be nowhere."
Mrs. Sharda Devi Awasthi KANPUR
IDIOTIC AND _ !
"Is it not idiotic on the part of Shaukat Hussain to have shown Nurjehan win a huge sum of Rs. 50,000 in "Jugnu" by solving the Crossword puzzles of the Illustrated Weekly, — a sum which no Competitor has been awarded hitherto in the long career of the Illustrated Weekly Competition?" BANGALORE S. P.Vasudev Rao
Wasti uses an odd statue to pres-ant his intentions to Sulochana Chatterjee in "Sham Savera", a social story.
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