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A PATRIOT PUNISHED
A report from Lahore dated 20th February says that Joginder Singh, a young Punjabi electrician attached to a unit in the Indian Army stationed in Greece, who was sentenced to transportation for life on a charge of shooting dead a British guard, has been brought to the Lahore Central Jail.
It is learnt that Joginder Singh and some other Indians protested agains: the exhibition by the British military authority of a film entitled "Gunga Din" at a cinema hall in Greece. When no notice was taken of their protest Joginder Singh visited the cinema hall and attempted to disturb the show. A British ,*uard fired .it him but he escaped. Joginder Singh retaliated by firing at the guard who was instantaneously killed. A woman spectator was also wounded. Joginder Singh was then over-powered and tried by a court martial. He was awarded the death sentence which
was subsequently commuted to transportation for life.
"Gunga Din" is the same obnoxious anti-Indian film which was banned all over the country owing to the country-wide agitation carried against it by "filmindia." because the film constituted a slander on the fair name of our country and its people.
WELCOME NEWS
The film workers of, Madras seem to have happily become conscious ot their present lot and are reported to have formed a Union called the "Madras Cine Workers' Union." This organisation, of which C. S. R. Anjaneyulu is the President, is intended to look after the social and economic interests and privileges of all the workers of the film industry in the South. We wish this Union all success and hope they keep us posted of their activities from time to time.
DON'T RUN US DOWN!
Encouraged by the happy reaction of the American public to the first few Indian film shorts sent to America, the Information Films of India are planning to produce special films with definite appeal to overseas audiences. As these films are expected to serve a cultural purpose between the two countries we hope that the I. F. I. takes particular care in choosing such subjects as would contribute to the correct interpretation of India's traditional culture and her rich heritage in arts, architecture and other memories of an ancient civilisation. We hope that no film is wasted on the Indian ropetrick, the snake-charmer, the Sadhus on our river ghauts and the jewel-thieves — our Indian princes.
THE BEST OF 1945
For the tenth year in succession New York Film Critics, after a lot of headache declared "The Lost Weekend", produced by Paramount, as the best picture of 1945. Ray Milland. its leading star and Billy Wilder its
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