FilmIndia (1946)

BT HOmE RND RBRQRD FLYING ACTRESS Film-actress .Durga Khote (Mrs. Rashid) is reported to have purchased a small plane at Calcutta, which will be piloted by her husband FlightLieutenant Rashid who will carry his actress-wife from one film i j icntre to another. And now old Durga can accept film contracts all 1 over India. AT LAST , Miss Madhuri, the well-known Anglo-Indian film artiste working in ' "Gvalan", the Haburao Patel production, married Mr. Larrimar Venay ol Poona in the last week of December. i Larrimar and Madhuri { Beryl Clas < sen) have been in love for years and their union was over-due. The wed ding relieved the anxiety of many close friends of the family. ATOMIC LOVE The Atom Bomb has begun its I disastrous career to prov ide love ihemes to motion picture producers, j Marcel Pagnol, the French dramatist I and film magnate, is making a film i about the Atom Bomb and calling i; j "The Birth of Love". In this film Pagnol hopes to condemn the intel lectual evolution of man and advises his return to the primitive herd life. He calls his story a human theme but the photoplay behind the theme seems to be a very much muddled affair. LOVE BOMBS Not to be outdone by this French man, Hollywood producers arc I scratching their brains to connect the | destructive Atom Bomb with some human themes. Sam Marx is already thinking loudly about producing "The Beginning of the End" for M.G.M . a human story in which he hopes to show the strained circumstances under which the bomb makers lived. Their wives and their home life will, of course, be shown to give the Hollywood folks sufficient human drama to sell the pictures. Three other producers are also reported to be thinking on the same lines and we are soon promised a lot of explosive love in atoms. LEO'S SAVINGS Hollywood is a funny place. Every one who knows how to behave well before the cameras gets paid there and paid well. The latest news is about an African lion who has saved up Rs. 130,000! in cash and not bought War-Bonds. (The pretty stars, who sold the Bonds, couldn't probably Hilt with Leo effectively). Leo African charges Rs. 300 for a day's work in any studio and for the amount behaves correctly before the spotlights and the cameras and obliges by "'mauling" the film hero or "killing" the villain according to the director's orders. And in India. we have 400 million starving "lions" without even the strength to yawn. NEW TERROR Mahindranath Mukherjee, a citizen of Calcutta, was given Rs. 5450J as damages by Justice Khondkar of the Calcutta High Court because two and half years back Citizen Mukherjee received a rude thump from a wooden sky-sign decorating the Rupali Cinema belonging to Mathuradas Chaturbhuj. Citizen Mukherjee got a nasty cut on the head which landed him in the High Court and inspired the learned judge to say, "If the present lot of the pedestrians in Calcutta is to be aggravated by danger from the falling of articles attached to licensed sky-signs in such a way that monsoon gust will blow them into the streets, then a new terror will be added to life." That publicity poster cost the exhibitor Rs. 5450I apart from case costs. INCORRECT A number of film mags have published the news that Mr. Baburao Patel and Miss Sushila Rani got married on the 26th January 1946, the Independence Day. Interviewed about this Mr. Baburao Patel said, "The news is incorrect. No one would like to lose his freedom on the Independence Day." FOURTH DAUGHTER Producer-director Abdul Rashid Kardar seems to be as prolific at home as at the studios. Keeping pace with her husband's film production, Mrs. Kardar has introduced a new-comer into the world, a sweet little daughter, the fourth in series. Kardar is wondering where the boys are being sent. AN ORDEAL The Government of India seem to have done a bad turn to theatre magnate Keki Modi by conferring on him the Order of the British Empire. Friends have given him so many parties during the last two months that the Order has become an Ordea! of the British Empire. And they say that in this Congress Raj, British titles are not popular. It must have been the milk in Brindaban that added weight to Kanan's personality in "Krishna Leela," a costume picture of Lakhmidas Anand. 31