FilmIndia (1948)

Jy, 1948 FILMINDI A ring anaemic heroes and idiotic ily looking heroines? f'lt is only through "filmindia" [at such people can be cured of leir idiotic ideas, that are given J; us through the movies." HAZIABAD. A*. G. Mathur. SK THE "GENIUS" HIMSELF! ["In "Sindoor" Shamim is seen ifing out of Sahu's house with lr only child running a dangeris temperature in the face of the Inevitable toofan and barish". I Ls pained and shocked to see a rector of Kishore Sahu's calibre Hulging in such unreal melo| amatic scenes. Do you think ■at any mother would take out lr sick child under such condiIns and invite death on her |by? That scene was definitely lainst nature. And why then p a genius like Kishore do bt?" M. Vasudevan Xair. ; JTHIYARA. 1 MEMO TO GEMINI VASAN i"I hope, you remember, some lars back when there was footle control for raw films, in jus■cation for a greater footage for iuth Indian films, Mr. V'asan, |? Gemini boss was reported to Ive drawn a triangle with its lex down to represent whole of Idia and the bottom portion of bt triangle (a smaller triangle t by cutting the original one rizontally somewhere in its ddlel to represent South India d to have argued that South dian films were having a mart only within the smaller trigle and the entertainment reirenients of that area demanded greater footage. 'But I don't know why his est 2 million rupee production landralekha' for which, it is noured, he is contemplating the bbing in several languages in ding Knglish, is nearly 19.00') t. Is he going to first cut th<" necessary portion which is •re than . one-third of its length 'ore dubbing or is he going to )loit the dubbed versions also y in the area of the smaller angle where even the Tamil •sion, in spite of some good setgs is getting only a luke-warm eption on account of its weak story and wrong casting? His "Himalayan" publicity is, I think taken as just 'Much ado about Nothing", by the people here." MADRAS. A. Vedamurthi. NO HOPE? "I have been regularly going through the reviews of Indian films published every month in your esteemed journal. Of late there has been a deterioration in our film production. Any money spent on these films is nothing but a waste not only of hardearned money but a waste of our precious time, energy and everything. The main reason for this state of affairs is the masses of the people have a liking for such films. 'Mass appeal' seems to be the basis of our present films. If our producers can dig more money by giving us mere 'box office' hits without caring for realism, why should they worry what film critics say about their pictures? So long as our standard of education is not raised, there is no prospect of anv improvement on the film front"'. BOMBAY. /\". Y. Rao ON ENTERTAINMENT TAX "Months have passed after India had attained her independence. But the Entertainment Tax is still being collected from the Public at the rate of one anna in every four annas. This is rather disproportionate. Though this falls heavily on the peoples' means in all corners of the Bombay Presidency, it does not draw the attention of either the Provincial or Central Government. Seme politicians shower praises on the Government Representative, the Finance Minister, for his jdans in whipping out the deficit in his budget by taxing beneficial entertainment. They hardly realise how he taxes the poor man's cheap entertainment by which he relaxes himself from hard work in his humble walk of life. The labourer for instance is hardly hit all the more because he needs such entertainment like the Cinema to refresh himself from his dull and monotonous existence. Cinemas, apart from giving entertainment, are also a fruitful source of education to the poor man. Now running at NOVELTY and REGAL, DELHI 71