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February, 1946.
F I L M I N D I A
MOHOMEDALI EBRAHIM (Bandra)
Are there any 'pin-up' girls in our film industry:
We have several 'stuck-up' girls who don't even show their faces and sit looking at the walls. Besides most of our girls have no legs to pin-up.
R P AGARWAL (Aligarh)
Please arrange the following names in their order of
merit keeping their artistic talent, beauty and voice in
view assigning reasons for each: — Veena, Neena, Nargis,
Ragini and Rarnola.
For a'l-round talent Nargis stands first Ramola comes second in acting some typical roles. Ragini should rank third in her effort to express the roles she plays, while Veena and Neena arc almost on level with their natural stiffness.
KANAYLAL T. GURNANI (Sukkur)
Is woman's heart made of wax or stone?
Had it been made of either of these two we could be more sure of it. But seeing the hearts which women show to the world, the material used in their making looks more like rubber which expands and contracts according to circumstances.
Whom did God create first — man or woman?
The scriptures say that God created man first and out of his rib gave him a mate in the woman. That puncture in the rib must have been a quick and repentant job seeing that man, fashioned after God, arrogated to himself divine powers within a short time. In giving a woman to man, God seems to have guaranteed His own Divinity by putting a permanent brake on the flying balloon of man's vanity.
S. RAMAKRISHNA RAO ( Vizianagaram)
Is "filmindia" for people's sake or for producers' sake? Just for my very own sake. Any objection?
N. DANIEL JEYASEKHARAN (Madura)
In these times, which type of a woman do you think
wc should have: a saintly Mcera Bai or a heroic Captain
Lakshmi?
Our saintly Meera Bai was more heroic than Captain Lakshmi. As far as I know our at tractive 'Captain' went on a paid job for a foreigner, became a prisoner of another foreigner and plunged into the struggle for freedom as a diversion. What is heroic about all this? Such Laksbmis are momentary meteors lifted to the limelight as political slogans by clever propagan dists like Tawaharlal Nehru. These modern 'Captains' will die before their death while Meer-i will sti'l live to inspire even saints like Mahatmj Gandhi for thousands of years to come.
HOTU TIKAMDAS (Karachi)
Is life so full of darkness as is shown in
Jeet"? Is God so cruel?
No, but producers are.
D. SATHYA RAJ (Hubli)
The other day I saw Snehaprabha Pradhan
about, on Hubli platform, with a Yankee guy.
wrong with her?
What's wrong in that? If Devika can take a Russian, what's wrong with a good American?
'Mun-ki
gadding What;s
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