FilmIndia (1946)

lipril, 1946 FILMINDI A That Ram L. Gogtay, the ex-secretary of the Proucers' Association, seems to have turned his old coat inde out these days. He has suddenly discovered that ulian producers copy foreign pictures. What is wrong in hat seeing that the very art of making motion pictures we ave borrowed from the foreign people? What is wrong i adopting a good thing? That Ram L. Gogtay thinks that our producers should ive him a special bonus of Rs. io,oooj for his past ser ices and future sabotage of our film industry. What bout "filmindia" getting a bonus because producers think lat "filmindia" has rendered precisely the same services. Vc always like an equitable distribution oi favours, Filmindia" should be given nothing less than 5 lakhs, is services and sabotage being on a much bigger scale. That with Ram L. Gogtay in the opposite camp, our iroducers are shivering in their pants these days and are oing bald worrying about the future of our rtlm industry. Vhy not give little Ram full freedom and watch the drill f our industry which 60,000 wreckers could not extinuirh in a 30 years' grand effort. That Ram L. Gogtay is getting more importance these ays than the Cabinet Ministers who have come to India d give our country its freedom. At this rate we will have 0 make little Ram, the celluloid viceroy ol India. That after reading Ram L. Gogtay's epoch-making rticlc in the "Film Daily," Hollywood producers have lecided not to export their pictures to India. These Indian iroducers can be relied upon to close any running busiess including their own. That Film-actress Mumtaz Shantj has decided to go >n a hunger-strike at the gates of the Krishna Talkies in Jombay, because the film actress in "Din Raat" is con tantly pawed by the film producer. She doesn't allow ven her hero to touch her in her pictures. We can't allow lur charming Mumtaz to die of hunger. Thai will mean billing Walli by starvation. Two deaths on hand would >e too much blood to wash off. That it was highly discourteous of Shiraz Ali Hakim 0 disappoint the numerous film rags who were itching to vriie his commercial obituary. Shiraz went out ami pur hased all the equipment of the Indian News Parade. Ami vc have been under the impression that Shiraz was a ■■cry poli.e man. That film rags all over the country seem to be more ntercsted in Maburao Patcl and Sushila Rani than in the Indian him industry. Incidentally, these two have be .onic pillars ol Indian journalism. No one can start a Daper witliou; these prize newsmakers of India. It will be 1 shocking sight to see a film paper selling without criti risin of Rani and Patcl. That Maburao Patcl enjoys a unique position in the film industry. 60,000 people would love to sec him nun lereJ in cold blood. Ami no exception to thi, sacred desire. I'll. 11 Sushila Rani is the luckiest ^irl in the film in chislryv Now Sardar Chandulal Shah claims her as a «is er of his. The old Sardar is a more substantial brother than the hungry-looking Pandit Indra. These film people emotional types. They toy with emotions while making pictures and get affected themselves. Why doesn't any one laim Baburao as the long-lost brother? That beggar eems destined to remain a prize-orphan of the world. RAGE OF CALCUTTA! ART HLMS' ALLURING SOCIAL TAKRAR c\ViitUn & ^arrted; HEMEN GUPTA Starring : JAMUNA NAWAB, MOLINA, IFTIKHAR, ARUNA, DEVBALA, TULSI, INDU TANDON Etc. SACCHINDAS (Motilal) RUNNING TO CROWDED HOUSES IN 8TH WEEK At Jyoti Talkies. Calcutta. For C. P. : JAMNADAS LTD. For SOUTH : SELECT PICTURES CIRCUIT. For BENGAL : MANSATA FILM DISTRIBUTORS. 15