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FilmIndia (1948)

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FILM INDIA November, 19 PADMAKAR GAVAI (Amraoti) What are the best years of your life? Those which I didn't have yet. P. PICHAYYA (Agra) Do you ever find time to spin on charkha? / have never been within ten miles of one. P. S. BANGUI (Bombay) A local evening paper published the report that film star Yashodhara Katju drinks sugar cane juice on wayside "rasagrahas". Are you not astonished to hear this? That is better than whisky at the C.C.I . I wish the charming midget brings some for me. Can you name a cine star and a director noted for helping charitable causes? From the stars, Prithviraj is notorious for this. Among the directors we have quite a few famous for their charity to female stars. It is the silent onehand-not-knowing-what-the-other-hand-giveth type of charity. MISS S. INDRAINI (Bangalore) What do you think of Indian men who wish young women on roads even when they are entire strangers? What should be done to them? Don't you wear chappals? M. R. SHERIFF (Madras) How do you like Mr. Manu Subedar's idea about one India instead of nine? / like it better than his theatre scheme. Mai Subedar is an experienced economist and knows h subject well. B. B. L. KAPOOR (Jaipur) "Experience is nothing but the recollection of one mistakes", said Oscar Wilde! And also a review of other people's mistake posi Why do Congress ministers oppose the idea of oj sition ? It is the bud habit they have inherited from til British bureaucrats in India. What was your most interesting experience America ? / saw people trading in death — people sellim graves and offering their services as funeral dire>\ tors to dispose off the human body. Americans pa' for both the items by instalments while they livt If an American doesn't buy his grave during his lij time, his dead body gets a pauper's burial and thi is considered a social stigma. Even in death thei guys observe social differences. And the citizens c this democracy laugh at the caste system in indi while they themselves have separate graveyards fc the white Americans and the Negroes. PRAVIN RAVAL (Nairobi) A newspaper refers to Lahore as "once the Paris c India". What is it called now? Since the Punjab has become the Palestine ( MOST MEMORABLE SOCIAL PICTURE OF THE YEAR GUPTA ART PRODUCTIONS' EK ROZ Starring: Nasreen (of Shah Jehan fame)AI Nasir, Asha Posley, Ajmal, Salim Raza, Shamlal etc. Music: Shyam Sunder ( of Village Girl and Bhaijan fame) Direction: Dawood Chand (of Arsi fame) Songs: Sarshar Sailani (of Arsi fame) Photography: T. R. Joshi Prodared by: M. D. Gupta at Pancholi Studios, Lahore 16th Week at Hyderabad, Sind 10th Week at Kanpur From Idd Day 14th October at KARACHI Four Songs have become sensationally popular. Comedy highly appreciated. Distributors .•— For Sind: Ever Ready Pictures, Karachi Delhi, U.P. & East Punjab:— GUPTA PICTURES, DELHI. For other territories contact: GUPTA PICTURES, Chandni Chowk, DELHI. 30