FilmIndia (1948)

ecember, 1948 FILMINDIA No. God doesnt keep a butcher's shop. We expect too much from God. We have to find that meat ourselves. IISS MAINIE ANNAIAH (Mercara) j What is the significance of garlanding? To weigh down the neck in humble submission — a proof of real greatness. [SMIL PATHAN (Ahmedabad) When can heauty become monotonous? Like everything else in the world beauty must grow and grow more beautiful and versatile. W hen it stops growing it palls. If you are a Banjara originally, how is it that in:ad of goading mules you are editing "filmindia"? / am driving donkeys to produce better pictures. W hat has happened to Shantarams English version "Dr. Kotnis"? The English is being seasoned in the tins to make it more palatable. After his fiasco in Hindustani, Shantaram is becoming more careful about the English version. B. OSWAL (Bombay) Who is the god of all wars? Man and in his greed for power is the spark of conflict. N, NARAYANA RAO (Mysore) How is it that women always go in for emotional ts? 1/ omen live on emotions and starve on reasons. When a woman becomes reasonable she loses weight. W hat is history ? A long story of human crime* with rare punctuations of humane deeds. Can a husband open his wife's letters? // ts bad manners to do so. Is wit scandalous in a scientist? // may save him from the scandals of his failures. Are prowlers always bad-intentioned ? They are certainly not research students sweating for humanity. What is subtle humour and between man and woman 10 possesses it to a larger degree? Humour is a spark of intelligence and intelligence is not yet denied to women. How are wars made? With guns of greed and bullets of potter. Has baldness anything to do with erudition ? Like Pandit fatvaharlal Nehru, our actor Motilal is also bald. Who are the philosopher kings of today? Those ornamental monarch % who Warm their thrones needlessly and become innocent exhibits in slate pageantry. Is it inadvisable to write about politic.-? If you write against the party in power you invite trouble. Politicians in power don't like criticism. Must we use our freedom carefully? Our ministers are already doling it out as medicine these days — in small doses. What was the chief object of the recent visit of Rajaji to South India? Every tree that grows throws its shadow on the i land it is planted even though its crown is lost in the clouds. W hen one swears, should one put any feeling into it at all? There is always more emotion and sincerity in curses than in blessings. What is the position of royalty in Free India? Gentlemen at large with a black past and a blank future. Arc our film producers, business sharks and unscrupulous adventurers? Clumsy gamblers. MISS ANIMA C.HATTERJEE (Bankura) \\ here do tears end ? On the blouse front. \\ hen is blushing a necessity ? // hen the tongue gets tied. \\ hat does marriage mean to a cynic? Taking a partner in misery. How many kinds of death are there in this world? One that frightens and the other that kills. \\ hen is a dandy in distress? // hen a damsel turns round and spits. How should a bluffer be treated? Encourage him to talk and admire his imagination. P. B. DAMBHAL (Bombay) There is a rumour that you are retiring to the Hima layas to live a saintly life. How far is it true? The eternal SHOWS Will melt and the rit^^ed bosom of the great Himalayas will lay bare if I take myself there. Let us have one saint less and keep the majesty of the Himalayas inviolated . CHANDBA P. VARMA (New Delhi) In your opinion, is U.S.A. a democracy in the true sense of the word ? \ot at all. Democracy is merely an argument in the I .S.A. It is a country when the rich exploit the poor as heartlessly as anywhere else. In main of the so-called democratic states of America, the Negros are not allowed to walk on the pavements with white men. nor travel in white men's buses, nor enter white men's hotels and restaurants, nor attend white men's cinema shows nor even use white men 5 /axis. They are segregated miles away from the main town, in filthy and disease ridden areas. In the slate of Georgia, very recently an Imerican Negro was shot dead by while men because he exercised his democratic right to vote. Quite a feu Negros are lynched every year because they commit the unpardonable crime of being seen with while 21