FilmIndia (1948)

ecember, 1948 . KUNHIKANNAN (Calicut) Who is more beautiful among the following: Kamini aushal, Begum Para or Nargis? None of them is beautiful. Nargis is a bit attractive in spite of the camel-hump on her back. The other two are not male. That's all I can say about them. It is a wonder you never get tired of answering? That's getting tired of bread. What is humour and what is fun? Humour is pregnant with meaning while fun is a mere bubble. RJANDAS D. BHARWANI (Ootacamund) Do you believe in the loyalty of Muslims in India j the Indian Union? / hear them shouting about it on all occasions. The test will come some day. What about the film artistes who had migrated to 'akistan? Most of them have returned to eat the humble pie and send the profits to their paradise. What is your opinion about the doctrine of noniolence? // is a religion to the individual but a suicide for a nation. :HAND1R D. HIRA (Mbow) Why must every Indian film be studded with songs. To bridge the chasms of the writers imagination. LUMARI SUSHILA KHANNA (Cawnpore) Do you know commerce? / wish I did. I would not have been so hard-up ufter such a lucrative war. P. M. KANNAPAN (Trkbinopoly) What is the best way to level up the rich and poor . Tax the rich and control the prices of all commodities. Can you suggest some work for which no capital is lecessary and which at the same time will bring a good eturn? Be a politician. You need only a good throat. AIRAM SHAHAINI (Bombay) Has Mr. Chandulal Shah any love either for art or or industry or for horse breeding? //,• lores his creditors and slaves and struggles for them. IISS NIRMALA G. A. (Bombay) Why has the world been created? For me to write "filmindia" . ». RADHA KRISHNA NAIDU (Nellore) Suggest some method to check the growing popuation of India? I The surgeons perform an operation called vasectomy on men. It is a cheap and painless operation and takes fifteen minutes with no hospitalization. Without impairing mans capacity for pleasure it FILMINDIA makes him harmless in the matter of children. Whenever necessary the productive power can be restored by another operation called re-anastomosis of the divided vasa. The state should make the first operation compulsory in case of people suffering from tuberculosis, leprosy and other hereditary diseases. JAYANTILAL RATILAL BHATT (Kandivalee) How many devotees of Jinnah will commit suicide after his death? Jinnalis devotees don't believe in suicide. Most of them believe in murder. F. J. A. SOMJEE (Bombay) Why does our Governor-General always wear goggles? He doesn't like to be caught napping, I guess. WAZIR CHAND CHOPRA (New Delbi) Why are politicians fond of publicity? Politicians can live for days without food but not a minute without publicity. RS. 500 IN 23 PRIZES EVERY MONTH The following prizes are awarded every month for questions which are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editor's Mail". 1st Prize: Rs. 100; 2nd Prize: Rs. 80; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50; 4th Prize: Rs. 40; 5th Prize: Rs. 30 and 20 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 10 each. A reader can ask as many questions as he likes. Questions should be neatly written or typed if possible. Unless the letters are signed, they won't be considered. In awarding prizes the Editor's decision shall | be final and absolutely binding and no correspondence will be entertained. The names of the prize-winners will be announced in '"filmindia'' every month and the prize | money will be remitted by Money Order. PRIZE WINNERS FOR DECEMBER 1st Prize: Rs. 100 to A. N. Narayana Rao (Mysore); 2nd Prize: Rs. 80 to Vidyadhar P. Nagarkar (Bombay) ; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50 to P. Narayanan (Madras); 4th Prize: Rs. 40 to Miss Anima Chatterjee (Bankura); 5th Prize: Rs. 30 to Chandra P. Varma (New Delhi); and 20 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 10 each to the following: Hardet Singh (Singapore) ; Narayan R. Kshirsagar (Kampala | ; Puran Chand Sarpal (Ambala) ; Madan Suraj Solanki (Jodhpur); K. Shakuntala (Mysore); K. G. Mathur (Ghaziabad) ; D. R. Krishnamurthy (Davangere); Bismil Pathan (Ahmedabad) ; D. B. ()>wal (Bombay); N. H. Massand (Bombay); Madan Lai (Jodhpur); Suresh Kumar (New Delhi); Upendra Mohan Jindal (Meerut) ; A. S. Naidu (Secunderabad Dn.) ; A Mohi Khan (Allahabad); V. Shahzad (Bangalore); A. Babu Rao Naidu (Kondapalli) ; M. Kunhikannan (Calicut) ; T. K. Chandrasekaram (Secunderabad Dn.) and Vidya Prakash Jain (Ghaziabad). Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners. 33