FilmIndia (1946)

March, 1946 film industry only helps to prove that the country is not worth fighting for. MISS INDU SETHI (Karachi) Being the director of "Gvalan" how do you feel when Sushila Rani talks love with the hero of the picture? She speaks words written by me. The language of love cannot be second-hand. Were she to add a word of her own the story would reach a climax. KAN NARAINDAS BHAG (Karachi) Does sweet Nur Jehan give songs from her own mouth ? Yes, she spits them out herself. MISS K. VANAJAXI (Manchenahalli) What do you think the ambition of a young woman should be if she has a beautiful face, a sweet voice and good education? If she has talent for acting she should join the screen. BRIJ NARAIN SETH (Simla) How does the rationing of cloth affect the film industry? In Ranjit they use the same costumes in ten pictures. D. N. KALA (Pilibhit) Is there any hope for an ugly-looking person to shoot into stardom5 Where are the handsome ones among the stars we have already? MISS UBAIDA BEGUM (Allahabad) Have you ever suffered from insomnia: Why should I, after honest criticism? M. A. NANNOOH (Bombay) A man who thinks he understands a woman is not a a very great thinker.3 You mean a man who imagines? A. NAJMUNNISA BEGUM (Melvisharam) If love is "fire", marriage an "inferno," divorce "salva tion" and second marriage "purgatorial expiation", what is polygamy? Esrapism. Has any Hindu actress adopted a Muslim name as the Muslim actresses have done? What glamour is there in a Hindu name? No Hindu actress has yet adopted a Muslim name, though many have Muslim lovers. Actresses assume names for business purposes and it is good husiness to take a name that represents the majority. MISS REKHA KAZI (Santa Cruz) What do you think when a child cries in the middle of a show? In an Indian picture house I admire its protest against the stupidity of the parents in seeing rotten pictures. In foreign show houses I wonder why people expose their family secrets in public places. L. NARAYANA RAO (Adoni) Will you please name some sincere directors in the film industry? . FILMINDIA The man who jumps straight into the eye is V. Shantaram. His sincerity of purpose is proverbial. After him come Mehboob, Shaukat Hussein, Bimal Roy, Nitin Bose, S. Mukherjee and quite a few others. From the rest, the majority, however, is composed of heartless scoundrels who bleed the producers and insult the philosophy of work. I don't know why Ranjit Chief, Mr. Chandulal Shah. is producing rotten stuff nowadays. The markets of the world, whatever the commodity, are divided, into two parts: old and new. Like the proverbial Jew, Chandulal seems to have become a junk merchant. You can't build anything new with old material. MISS KRISHNA BHAGVVAT (Indore) If every man runs after a beautiful girl what should ;in ugly lass do? A woman is never so ugly as to be on the shelf all her life. Strangely enough, the ugly ducklings get married more quickly than the beautiful dolls. It is not an easy job to marry a beautiful girl. Apart from being expensive, marrying a heautiful girl is a severe responsibility, more so for a middle-class man who has to live in the midst of neighbours. Beauty in woman is a liability on man. Ugly women need not be disheartened because man primarily marries sex. Other considerations come later. Beauty is the luxury of the elite who can afford it. I). NATARAJAN (Matunga) Mr. Baburao Patcl of "filmindia", tell me why you are not publishing photos of any female recruits so far? Mr. D. Natarajan of Matunga, the cats are not stepping out. R. U. QURESHI (Allahabad) Who is the busiest man on earth? The thinker. A friend of mine calls you the second 'Raja Indra.' Isn't that the fellow from heaven who is always shown in the company of a number of girls? I always wondered how he could be in heaven with that large crowd round him, seeing that you don't need more than one woman to go to heaven. It's lucky your friend didn't call me a second Pandit Indra. I congratulate myself on my escape. C. MAHADEVAN (Bombay) Is it quite essential for a film critic to be conversant with the language of the picture to judge its merits? Absolutely. In the talkies, situations and sentiments are expressed with the help of words and it is essential that the critic should know the words and their beauty. That is why I ask others to review Bengali, Tamil and Telugu pictures. M. V. ANNASAHEB (Belgium) What is the difference between a crushed flower and an abandoned woman? A crushed flower has neither life nor perfume in it. An abandoned woman may still have both and therefore some hope for the future. One is a dead memory, the other is often a living reproach.