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ovember, 1948
India, Lahore should be its Jerusalem with love and brotherhood eternally crucified.
Can you explain the meaning of 'invisible' income?
Income which theatre owners extract from producers as a price for releasing pictures.
. LAKSHMI KANTA (Madras)
Wherein does India's present greatness lie? In its past glory and future hopes.
[ K. BHAKAT (Gobindpur, Manbhum)
Why is there no cinema hall in Nepal?
Because the Gurkhas live in India for their tily bread.
ISS NILIMA DUTT (Calcutta)
Suppose you meet Yakub when he is boasting about mself, what opinion would you have of him?
That's what Yakub never does. He is a good and quiet man and is very popular with friends. I like him a lot too.
P. JHUNJHUNWALA (Kanpur)
Define a Pakistani?
A resident of India looking at Karachi as the Mecca of his dreams.
"I would divorce the woman who calls me Swamy" -Why do you say that?
It reminds me of the rickshaw pullers of Madras who call every one a "Swamy" for two annas.
. R. K. ROW (Mysore)
Do you know anything about director Badami?
Nice young man who needed a job badly after years of opportunity in the film industry. Do you know anything about the political views oi ie Muslims of filmdom?
With a few happy exceptions, most of them are Pakistanis and are living here because it pays them to.
L RUKMINI (Anantapur)
Give me an example of a thought that would move mountain.
Pakistan. It moved the mountain of our North West Frontier away from us. How to be your own boss?
Do all work as if it is your own and as if your very life depends on it. How can one win at races?
Ask Chandulal Shah. He prefers race horses to Home Ministers. His address is c\o Ranjit Film Company, Dadar, Bombay.
What is the best gift you suggest I can give for my usband's birthday?
Give him a pledge of silence. You are too inquisitive for a housewife. What is the truth about vegetable ghee?
That its manufacturers make millions by poisoning millions.
How is it none of Bapuji's sons is at least half as an inn a6 he?
FILM INDIA
They are struggling to climb up but not to Bapu's stature — to Birla's mansion. What happened to Expert Hirlekar?
He seems to have gone underground — a popular manoeuvre these days.
How is it we do not hear any Chinese talking about the Kotnis film?
They are still searching for the China from where Kotnis's Chinese wife came.
Why didn't Yakub go to Pakistan?
He has too much money to be safe there. Give me the funiest example of absentmindedness.
A film producer once wore an actress's blouse thinking it to be his waistcoat. Of course, it was all in a hurry to be respectable. And this is not a legend.
VISHWAS MHATRE (Bombay)
Barbers are good propagandists. Do you gossip with your barber?
/ read newspapers which heat the barber hollow these days.
P. VENUGOPAL (Tellicherry)
Dear uncle, are you related to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Minister for States?
I es, dear nephew, he is my uncle as I am of yours.
Though prohibition is strictly enforced throughout the country excepting a few places, the number of drunkards seems to have increased more than ever before?
Nasreen plays one more role in "Ek Roz", produced by Gupta Pictures.
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