FilmIndia (1948)

vember, 1948 FILMINDI A Anything from an eyewash to an argument. People have forgotten these days the old emotional art of weeping. rAB AHMAD (Bauda) Is there something like professional rivalry between film stars? / am told that Suraiya does not like to work in a picture with Nargis and I wonder whether it is due to a healthy rivalry in art. L V. SUBBAHMANYESWABA BAO (Madras) Why don't we have our beloved Bapu's head on ns? We shall, very soon. But that doesn't mean that all of us will have enough coins in our pockets. Compare the differences between a Muslim in India 1 a Muslim in Pakistan? The Muslim in Pakistan can air his vices, the one in India can air only his virtues. K. MEHTA (Nagpur) Why does Veena refuse to smile on the screen? Is afraid to show her teeth? That's right. She has a bad set of teeth. They are more feline than feminine. RI H. D ASWAN I (Bombay) What do you think will be the last thing civilised man? The last is himself and he took it up as his first job. Why do women dislike each other? So do men. There is little to choose between men and women in likes and dislikes. How many good women are there in the world? For every good man there is one good woman. N. TBI PATH I (Allahabad) Do people really like "Kalpana"? Minister Morarji Desai liked it very much and he is a representative of the people. A. BAZA (Bombay) What did America give you in return for the 42 unds of your weight? As life itself is a grace of Cod, the American doctors could be said to have given me a new lease of health. Since you returned safe and alive, am I wrong to Id that prayers are never answered — at least those )m the Indian producers? Not one Indian producer prayed for my death. They dislike my criticism as it affects their business, but they like me as a friend. Our producers are not that bad yet. Quite a few of them called at my house daring my absence for news of my health. Now that you have tasted the pangs of a stomach «ration, will you stop operating the stomachs of Inin producers? / will if I succeed in removing their ulcers as quickly as the American surgeon did in my case. Either I have been a bad surgeon all these years or our producers have been growing ulcers too fast — sometimes 300 a year. That is too much work for a single knife. B. KUNDAJE (Bombay) Is it true that film actress Suraiya is earning more than H. E. Rajaji, the first Governor-General of India? Of course, so do many film stars. But that's nothing if we remember that Sardar Chandulal Shah often bets on a single horse a month's salary of Rajaji and the horse, carrying the extra handicap of money often comes in last. How did you like America? Is it 'God's own country' as they make it out to be? It is a country where the Church is an industry with community chests full of dollars and God residing in palatial mansions. The numerous sects compete with one another in building churches and even small towns have a dozen beautiful churches. The young people sleep on Church Sundays till the lunch hour and expect the old ones to go to Church but as there are no old ones in America (you cant call anyone old even at 75) the Churches get no attendance. People make up for this sin by contributing lavishly to the church funds and thus provide the priesthood with a comfortable living. The main religious divisions are: Baptists, Catholics, Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews with innumerable other "assemblies of God" and "Churches of Christ" apart from countless subdivisions of the main sects. God is well advertised in America but the Atom Bomb is also being made more dangerous. S. D. DATAB (Sholapur) What is the meaning of veto? It is an international rat-trap for catching the rat and drowning it. Please define present bureaucracy? Et tu. Brute! MAHESH (Kanpur) Very often in Indian pictures I see waterfalls with milky appearance which make no noise although they fall from a great height. I wonder what sort of natural falls are these? They are silent shots taken outdoors and grafted to the indoor shots by a technical process called hack projection, but the idiots forget to dub the sound of the ivaterfalls. K. N. BAO (Bombay) Why should men marry? There is no 'should', they just 'do'. Adam set the vogue. Don't you think it a good idea to re-name Kalbadevi Road (Bombay) as "Kala Bazaar Road"? And thus give it a permanent license to do what should not be done? DUBU KBISHNA (Kuala Lumpur) Have you ever tasted camel's milk? / have seen its taste on Pandit Indra's tongue and I don't like its odour. 29