FilmIndia (1948)

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Editor-eMail (In this section, the editor himje// replies to queries from the readers. As thousands of letters are received every month some amicus ant several frivolous it is neither possible nor convenient to attend to all. Selected letters are usually treatedTin an informative and humorous strain and no ofjtnce is rreont to anyone.) DBI Roy (Darbhanga, Bihar) I Do you think that a medical girl will have a ■ter prospect in the films ' Medical or tutorial, the films need talent and luck. Snehaprabha came from a medical college and Yanmala had a teacher's cane in hand. Which of these do you like: a sweet dream that are sleeping on the lap of your beloved or ■uelly a deep slumber on the lap of the beloved? / like the dream in case I find the lap cold. ANTILAL RATILAL BHATT (Kandivli) For which earthly or heavenly purpose did lar Sharma dedicate a rotten picture, "Neel mal", to his departed wife? Probably to encourage the early arrival of the new one. H DHARMA ROW (Gudlavalleru) Have you got children? They were children once. Today they are my parents. THANVI (Jodhpur) What do you think of Sajjan, the young artiste n Jodhpur? Very good on the stage, tolerable on the screen and a headache to meet. M. GANGULI (New Delhi) The worth of your brain, you say, is two tolas counterfeit silver. If your brain and "filmindia" 85 fake as the "counterfeit silver**, are we not ting our genuine money on both? Where did you get the genuine money from? SS GITA MEHROTRA (Cawnpore) What would be the status of women in Free la? One is a governor of a province, another a minister of the State end still another an ambassador in Moscow, posts which even the West has denied to women. 3S MRMALA GUPTE (Poona) What is your opinion about a Maharashtrian Is she in any way different from other girls? A. JAMES (Hyderabad Dn.) WIkii women enter filmland, do they have to ket their pride and sometimes even forget their ^Is? Wrong pride they must pocket because the man who directs the picture always knows bet ter. Morals are a matter of individual extravagance. In a normal Hindu family I see that the woman is treated as a slave of the husband. In a Muslim family the impression is that the woman is an article of pleasure. In my opinion, the wife lias as much right over her husband ?s the husband over the wife. That is why she is called the better half. What is your opinion? / consider the woman to be a companion that needs protection and an important participant in domestic debates. The Congress Ministries both at the Centre and in the Provinces are called "popular*'. Why and how are they popular? Popular in the sense that people have voted them into power but their acts are not popular cs they have drifted away from the people whom they are supposed to represent. Isn't she imposing? That is Suraiya in Famous Filmssocial screenplay "Aaj ki Raat," running at thq Minerva, Bombay. 19