FilmIndia (1948)

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e, 1948 FILM INDIA nmala is shocked in her sick bed in a hospital by nething: conveyed to her by Prithvi Raj in "AzadiRah-Par"', Hindustan Kalamandir's maiden production. Why are the politicians fond of lecturing? Don't ask why in this world. Has freedom become beneficial to poor people? so, how? They are in the news every day as arguments to arrogate power and misuse it on the other poor ones. Why is it that modern women do not like to re children? 1 Children have to be fed and educated. It takes money to do so Children can't grow on mere love. A. BADRUDDIN (Mangalore) How is it that a person who celebrates hia ;hday enjoys it, receiving presents from friends. Jn it is more proper for him to feel sorry because more year of his life is gone and he is nearer end0 Anything that takes a person necrer his end must be enjoyable because after the end there is an eternal life of peace. How much peace do we really get in our present existence? K. VISWANATH (Bangalore) Are you an egotist? A superfluous question. What is it that entitles you to be the editor of raindia"? The talent that makes you people buy "filmindia" for 14 long years. NIRMAL KUMAR (Kanpur) Which is better: to give a rupee to a beggar or to see an Indian fiim? In either case it is encouraging beggarsIs there no female monarchy anywhere in this vast universe? Oh yes! All over the universe — in every home. Who made the women prostitutes? Men. B W JAMES (Gorakhpur) Can a poor man become the Prime Minister of India, if he has Nehru's brain? No. India is still class conscious. It will take many years before the poor man gets his turn. BULO T HARISINGHANEY (Thana) I think it must be great fun to serve on the Film Censor Board One can see all the pictures without spending even a single pie. / sympathize with the Censors for the torture they have to go through seeing hundreds of Indian pictures during the year. Do you ever expect women to behave logically? I don't Their sex is all the logic What happens when ethics begin to intrude in politics? We pay for the bullets that kill us. What is your opinion about us, the Sind refugees? // you had left Sind ivhen I told you, you would not have been so bedly off. Sindhis are an enterprising race and they should establish new towns in the interior of the country, instead of crowding an already overcrowded city. KAMTA PRASAD (Cawnpore) What is your advice to Muslim producers and Hindu financiers? Need the latter stake their money on the former? Money has neither caste nor community nor have money lords A C. CHANDRASEGARY (Kuala Lumpur) Were you the first to receive when God distributed sense? My readers must have been the first As I answer their questions, I come after them. DHAIRYASHIL PAWAR (Bombay) After experience of 43 years, in which community of India would you like to be born? Hindu again and always. H G KRISHNAMURTY (Mysore) When do women look old? When men lose interest in them. 19