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May, 1948
FILM INDIA
Are we really in Free India?
You are running up a temperature and (jetting delirious.
What are the change? that have taken place in India before and after the 15th August in general?
Xowadays they tie us up with hand-spun and handwoven ropes, though sometimes they use the seme old foreign bullets.
S. GHOSE (Serampore)
I want a friend, how can I get one?
You can buy one for two rupees every month — a friend that tells you the truth humorously.
J. O. GUPTA (Kanpur)
While producing pictures, do the film producers feci themselves responsible to anybody?
Oh yes! To their race horses, feminine commitments, gambling gomes and other sports.
Why is your criticism becoming so perfect day by day?
The product is becoming more defective. ADVI RAO K. (Raichur)
Is there any truth in the rumour that the Sikhs have made up their mind to hold the reins of India in their hands?
They may have but who is handing over
the reins.
GULAB SINGH (Kamptee)
Why don't you become a political leader?
Veena Kohli and Rehan make the romantic pair in "Roop Rekha", Chitra Kala Mandir's maiden social.
In her astonishment Sudha Rao adds charm to her simplicity in Shanti Pictures' maiden social, "Kuchh Naya".
Perish the thought. Haven't we enough murderers let loose in this ancient land of Buddha and Gandhi'ji?
V. ANGELA RAU (Madras)
How may a faithful wife cure a drunkard husband?
Drunkenness is a disease. It needs a doctor and not the wife.
Is there any harm if a woman in her thirties marries a man of twenty-five?
No harm if the icoinan looks younger and the man feels older.
Define in simple words an ideal woman? Mother. MARTIN T. (Dibrugarh)
Did anybody ever pull your leg?
That's what you fellows do every month and I pull it back.
Do you think it necessary to go to the temple, mosque or church to worship God who is omnipresent?
I go to a temple to admire architecture and yet I believe in God. If God lived in a temple men would find him.
J. LAL THANVI (Jodhpur)
Tell us frankly your opinion on Free India's first railway budget. Do you personally approve of the raising of fares?
Those trains must run and they need silver wheels.
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