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:tober, 1948
6) Likewise, the foreign producers should also be . pped from exhibiting their advertising film trailors U| thus unnecessarily cutting into the standard playing lie. This can be done by refusing to censor such film rilors.
To stop the blackmarketing of raw films, importers c st be made to sell their stocks to bona-fide producers -lot necessarily approved by the Indian Motion Picle Producers' Association — and blackmarketing or reie of raw films by anyone except the direct importers :»uld be made a penal offence. (Not hanging from the jirest tree as Pandit Jawaharlal Xehru had once threatto do — though we find the blackmarketeers still i ling about in streamlined cars.)
' This is the least that we expect from our national {/eminent to do for our film industry, which is perils the most undisciplined and neglected industry in 1 country.
LGAR EXHIBITIONS IN THEATRES !
The ghost of Xawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow ! 1 seems to be haunting many towns of the United Provces from where readers write to us of the nuisance used generally by the Muslim film-goers who throw ins at the screen and utter filthy remarks when they £ and hear some of our film girls singing and dancing
< the screen.
The most popular provocation for this exhibition of
< gar appreciation is Cuckoo, the Anglo-Indian dancer i Bombay, whose youth and figure have often been pur|befully exploited by the film producers for screen Irposes. Quite a few bold dances of Cuckoo have been
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banned by the Bombay Board of Film Censors, but from all reports it seems that the very appearance of Cuckoo on the screen these days throws the masses into a frenzy of perversion and they begin flinging coins at the screen as an expression of their appreciation.
A few other girls, originally hailing from the redlight districts of Lahore and Delhi also provoke similar demonstration either due to their music or their pageant of sexy contours.
In their greed for money film producers would not mind stripping a girl on the screen under the pretense of art. There are film directors in our country who either specialize in stripping women's legs or in emphasising their busts without rhyme or reason. Add to these physical exhibitions the suggestive songs of writers like .\ladhok and Pandit Indra and it becomes difficult to blame the crude masses, who have neither discipline nor education to control their effervescence.
Our masses are in millions and no power in the world can teach them good behaviour overnight. But the law of the land can certainly put the brakes on the small group of individuals who provoke such vulgar mass exhibitions by providing ticklish sex aspects in their pictures.
If it is a crime to provoke breach of peace by inflammatory speeches and writings, it should be equally criminal to provoke the masses to indulge in vulgar exhibitions by presenting sex in a lewd and tempting manner.
The Government of Bombay, under the stern supervision of our Home Minister, Mr. Morarji Desai, has re
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