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April, 1948
ti sullen look in the eyes and the pressed Hps indite Sapru up to something sinister in T. K. Screen Classics' maiden social, 'Batohi".
Illy, its history is as false and perverted as its is unreal and unconvincing (to give an ex, Paulette Goddard, after her '"death-defying j in a canoe over a roaring waterfall 106 feet is not only alive but even retains her slippers r feet — and. of course, her make-up on her . If it is history, it is the white man's history jocted for the deliberate purpose of representing ■oloured" man as barbarous and cruel, fit to ninated. hose who have read real American history — or HrVe read that masterpiece novel. "The Last cr". by Howard Fast — know that the real powas that Hie "Red Indians'' were mercilessly ystcmatically exterminated by t ho European s. and that if they fought, they fought for their lable ritdit to defend their freedom and their and. "Unconquered" presents :> completely ted historical perspective. It is imperialist zanda of the crudest and vulgarest sort, s such, we demand that it should be immeI banned throughout the territories of the InUnion. The arrogant Hollywood producers be made to feel that free India, shall not allow port of any such films which militate against jnsc of human brotherhood, or which slander coloured" race.
'HVKS. SARDAR PATEL
^ ■riir announcement made by our Home and In•ation Minister in the Union Parliament the other
FILM INDIA
day that the Government of India proposed to introduce shortly a Bill for the amendment of the Cinematograph Act of 1918 with a view to restricting to adults the exhibition of films not considered suitable for children and adolescents, has come not a day too soon. Indeed, the age limit may well be advanced to 21.
The demand for the classification of Indian films for adults and children has been of long standing and readers of "filmindia" will recall our repeated warnings and agitation for saving the young ones from the pernicious influence of a majority of films, both Indian and foreign, which adversely affect their tender minds.
Sardar Patel is reported to be in favour of making the British model the basis of the proposed classification into Adult and Universal releases with the age-limit of 18 years as the dividing-line between adults and children.
While welcoming the proposal, it is to be hoped that the Government will fully weigh all the pros anil cons of the subject before passing the bill and nn'.ke such necessary provisions for its successful operation without which it is likely to defeat its inherent objective and aim.
A mere amendment in the Cinematograph Act and 'farmans to provincial censors to make this classification in the way that suits them, according to their vainglorious traditions, will not only lead us nowhere but make the whole thing a huge joke and a farce.
"What a strange world it is!" says Raja Nene in "Shadi se Pahele". Raja Nene Productions' forthcoming social.
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