FilmIndia (1948)

(ovember, 1948 FILM INDIA That the Madrasis put Pandit Indra in a free hospi.1 in Madras when his heart started ailing for his old ardar. The doctors called for a photograph of the Sarlar and thus temporarily met a had symptom. That the race for survival between Karan Dewan nd the Oomer Park dogs is still on and all the howling |i the Park has made Baburao Patel sick again. At this hte, Karan Dewan seems to be anxious to attend Babuo's funeral. That Nanak Motwane produced " Nehru Guards Inia", the Hyderabad story, and the Bombay Board of Hm Censors banned it. He should now call it "Sardar nocks out the Nizam" and put it up for censoring again, here is magic in that word "Sardar". That the Raw Film Distribution Committee of the roducers has been dissolved unceremoniously after filmindia's" disclosures. Chandulal Shah is now busy vith the "morality" club where two pegs of whisky, a >ottle of rum and no end of card gambling will be Beened. Curse this Morarji! That Dilip Kumar has still not recovered from the ■fleet of his romantic interludes with Kamini Kaushal in 'Shaheed" and is reported to be walking in sleep these lays. That's what happens when you use strong dialogue n pictures. That Vijoo Bhatt did not like the "Bijoo" monkey jicture produced by Chandulal Shah whom he had so far considered to be an expert on horses. \ rijoo «,b shocked to find the same story as in his "Bamban". That owing to the success of "Jai Hanuman". the exhibitors are reported to have' cancelled advance booking<»n Bamban'' I Prakash I and "Bhakta Hanuman" (Wadia) as it is all about the same monkey and his very same monkey tricks. Thai film actress Nur Jehan has become so popular in Pakistan social circles that her husband Shaukat Hussein could not finish even one picture in fifteen months. And he had gone to build Pakistan's film industry with the help of Himalayawalla. That Khurshid. that old Ban jit star, is reported to he competing with Nur Jehan in popularity and the stories that happen Lala Yaqub jots down and comes to India and sells them. Some plots they are! L That some of the Muslim producers of Bombay are producing pictures rather fast these days to decamp with the loot to Pakistan before a shooting war starts. Their wives are becoming pregnant six times in a year and running to Pakistan for six deliveries a year. How fertile! That some of the Muslim producers are reported to have collected guns and pistols, of course, for film purposes. But the guns and pistols look dangerously like the real stufb— probably to achieve realism which they say is the soul of films. That even the Bombay Parsis don't seem to appreciate keki Modi's aristocratic class of Rs. 8|12| at his "Pride of l he Post War World". They prefer to spend the money next door with Vithal Puriwalla who draws greater crowds than Keki Modi. That film actress Nargis thinks Asif to be the most .intelligent director of India and Asif considers Nargis to be the most beautiful, the most talented and the most educated actress of India. So it is quits now! That Devika Rani lent her grace to the Russian films recently shown at the Capitol in the company of her bearded Russian. Now, don't jump to a conclusion! Devika is too beautiful yet to be a Communist. That Sohrab Modi is reported to be producing "Mera Mmiiia". And we thought he had already produced one. This may be the second one. perhaps. That according to the Russians in Bombay Indians like to see only Soviet pictures in preference to the Indian and the American ones. That is why, perhaps, our capitalists are falling over one another to exploit Soviet pictures. > That the Soviets don't wish to spread Communism in India through their pictures. They only want to show what a paradise Russia has become because of Communism. Surely, you can't object to such a cultural gesture ! Can you ? That the Soviets also like our Indian pictures very much. In fact. Stalin is reported to be sleeping with them every night particularly "Pharti-ke-Lal", "Milan" and the stuff the Government of India had sent. Stalin is so much attached to them that he won't let I hem be removed to the theatres. That is real neighbourly love. That such enduring love and affection on the part of Stalin can only mean that he likes India and Indians very very much. The Reds in Bombay often pr)ve this. Mcnaka ha> a tantalizing role to play in "Jeene Do"*, n social storj of Jai Hind Chitra. 19