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FILM INDIA
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show so as to compel the spectators to remain inside when the National Anthem was played, the Government of Bombay has subsequently issued a notification withdrawing the said "suggestion".
There is a Sanskrit proverb which says that not to start doing anything at all is the first sign of wisdom, but when a start is actually made, further wisdom demands that the work should be carried to completion. The Government have shown a complete absence of this great virtue in issuing first the suggestion and afterwards the withdrawal order. What they should have done was to put a complete ban on the playing of the National Anthem in picture houses except only on some special occasions. This has been sensibly done by the Government of East Punjab. Such a step would have saved the Government of Bombay from the public ridicule they invited on themselves by the admission of their weakness and would spare us the mockery to which we a-re subjected by making us believe that the ludicrous and jarring tunes that are usually played in the cinemas at the end of the shows are those of our National Anthem!
Any way, I still congratulate the Government of Bombay for their very first democratic gesture since they assumed power inasmuch as they have, at least for once, realised that jail manuals cannot teach social discipline and good behaviour to an
ignorant public which, for over a quarter of a cen has all along been taught to defy law and w> national consciousness today is being killecl starvation, corruption, profiteering and day; robbery that are all so rampant and widesp that the authorities had almost to declare their i helplessness to suppress them even partially. SULTANAS IN SEX-TRADE
A certain ''Madame Kishori", when arrestee the Bombay Police recently on the charge of ii upon the earnings of prostitution, called herse film actress. Shortly after her arrest, the Secre of the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Associa had to publish a press note saying that "Mad! Kishori" was no film actress and that the film1 dustry should be spared the ignominy such sc ments are likely to cause it. A few days later Ismet Sultana was detected by the Police and I a little later another Sultana, this time Anvar. I fell into the trap of the Vigilance Branch. Two charged with the same offence as Madame Kis have been arrested and are now under trial.
Who are these 'Madames', 'Kishoris' and ' tanas', who call themselves film actresses? Evide some extra girls who are put up in crowd see choruses or dance ballets and whose very names unknown to the producers and directors of the tures wherein they work. There is no law to pre
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