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May, 1948
FILMINDI A
Shanta Apte, the screen's veteran artiste, is starred in Bhoomradi Productions' "Mandir", Winayak's last directorial assignment.
What is your definition of ''morality'".'
.4 strictly personal virtue with which the state has nothing to do.
What is fashion?
KilHny people for politics.
H. MAHADEVIAH (Benares)
Can you guide us in teaching a lasting lesson to a particular cinema owner, who is not in a mood to improve his picture "hell" in spite of repeated complaints through your "filmindia"?
Give him a Month's ultimatum . Thereafter whip up public and official opinion by peaceful picketing at the gates of the cinema. A week's treatment will cure the most chronic cinema owner.
R. C. HIREMATH (Davangere)
By what do you measure happiness? By the smiles around me.
M. KL'NHIK ANNAN (Mettupalaiyam)
Please let me know what Nargis is doing nowadays?
Producing a picture in partnership with
Chandulal Shah just as I did.
Majority of my friends are Muslims who didn't volunteer for Pakistan. What do vou think of me Sir?
You are more lucky. I was in the same boot once but many of my friend* went to Pakistan and sonte of the remaining ones stabbed the here.
'P. JANARDHAN RAO (Secunderabad)
Do our women dress with an eye for their husband's like* and dislikes in colour and style?
They do as long as their men appreciate. Women lose interest in dress when their men lose interest in them.
What do angels look like? Dead bodies.
ABDUL HAI (Raichur)
On what grounds do you recommend the film industry to be included in post-war planning?
Because its product poisons ynillions everx. day. The film is the most powerful weapon of propaganda to teach people a new way of life.
You revel in your criticisms and commend yourself when action is taken on them. Don't you know great men never praise themselves?
I am not a great man. I am a little man
who takes a big bite and I feel happy when 1
digest it.
J. S. PILLAI (Suva, Fiji Islands)
Could you tell me what you do with those questions which lack grammatical construction, but nevertheless carry sensible meaning?
/ icould rather have sense than grammar.
Do you think that on moral grounds, Britain will bp justified in remaining in India after June 1948 if the outstanding Hindu Muslim differences are not settled?
Leela Chitnis is featured in Filmistan's forthcoming picture "Shaheed" as the hero's mother.
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