FilmIndia (1948)

PILMINDI A July, 11 BOOKING CLERK IN FOR A YEAR Delhi, June 5. Om Prakash, a booking clerk in a local cinema, who was entrusted with a sura of Rs. 4,961 on November 27, 1945, was accused of having misappropriated part of the money after depositing only Rs. 2,725 out of it in a bank. On being tried for the offence he was found guilty and sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment by the Special Magistrate, yesterday. Accused pleaded guilty. SABU FOR AN INDIAN FILM Hollywood, June. — Once more there is news that a picture is to be made in India. So often have we been disappointed — in the end film has been "shot" in Hollywood — that I hesitate to say anything definite. I am told by Mr. Victor Stoloff, who is to produce and direct the film, that very certainly "Sabu". as it is to be "called, will also star the actor, Sabu, and it is to be both produced and financed in India. The rest of the cast has not yet been decided upon. (From Hollywood Diary of the Illustrated Weekly of India by its Hollwood correspondent Nora Laing — I.W. dated 20th Juno "48). BRAVO. STUDENTS! Kanpur. June 8. Half a dozen persons were injured, two of them seriously, as the result of a clash this evening between a batch of students and the staff of the local Nigar Talkies. The clash is reported to be a sequel to an altercation between the gate keeper of the cinema and some students who wanted to enter the hall "with concession tickets. The gate keeper questioned the students' identity. The situation was brought under control when the city Magistrate accompanied by the Police arrived at the scene. The police arrested the manager of the cinema and four other members of the staff for alleged rioting. CHAPLIN'S NEXT Hollywood, June 19. Charles Chaplin i> planning to make two pictures after his "Monsieur Verdoux" in which he plays the role of an unemployed (6 bank clerk who turns murderer. Both the new films will be romantic comedies but the plots have not yet been revealed. He said that they would have no political or social significance. Chaplin will direct both films and act in one. PAID WITH LIFE TO SEE SHOOTING Jamnagar, June 8. A crowd of about 75 men dropped into the waters of a lake from the roof of a boat shed which crashed under their weight. They were watching the outdoor shooting of a Gujarati picture. Two dead bodies were found next day on the shores of the lake while three persons are stiil missing and feared to have been drowned. Twenty others who were injured were removed to hospital. DURGA KHOTE IN ENGLAND London, June, 18. Durga Khote, star of 32 Indian films, now on her first trip to Britain told a news agency that she In Greater Bombay Pictures' maiden production, "Shakti". Suraiya will be seen in the fullest bloom of her youthful charms. was thinking of making her 3, picture in England. "I would h to make a film in British stud with their super technical resou es", she said, ''but nothing d» nite has been arranged yet." LADIES IN RIOTOUS MOOD Bombay, June 181 A crowd of women spectat \<. ho collected to see the zem{ show of a Hindi picture runn in a local theatre went into ft ous demonstration of their disa pointment and annoyance wl tuld that the zenana show « cancelled for some reasons not be revealed. They have appea to have broken some wind glasses and pieces of furniture side the theatre. NEW INDO-BRITISH VENTUII London, June la The life story of Mahatl Gandhi is to be brought to J Indian screen by a new coivpai East-West Film Production, n registered. With joint Indo-Brilf capital, the directorate inclul Lord Sinha and the British ff men, John Sutre and F. W. BI er. The company plans studios! India. The story of Mumtaz ^ji Lai is also understood to J included in the schedule of Indf subjects for filming. "UNSUSPECTED" UNDER SUSPICION Dacca. June The Government of Bihar h directed that the film "Lnsusp ed" produced by Messrs. Wa Brothers, shall be deemed to an uncertified film in the whol the Province of Bihar. A month previous to this same film was banned as unfit exhibition in the province Madras by the Government that Province. MR BABURAO PATEL New York. June 2 Editor Baburao Patel was rated upon on the 23rd ins for duodenal ulcer at the R velt Hospital, New York, by White. The operation was cessful and Mr. Patel's condi is excellent. He is progressing tisfactorily.