FilmIndia (1946)

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May, 1946 FILM INDIA Here is Dulari in a devotional moment in "Namak,'' ;i social story of Azad. Mummy is dearer to a child or daddy? Mummy is the nearest, Daddy may be the dearest. If a man is disowned and discarded by his parents and by his community, what should he do.3 Create his own community as I did. NANDALAL D DATTA (Jndore) Have you ever seen a ghost? If ghosts are revivals of the dead, I see one everyday— Pandit Indra. What should a young man do when he is overpowered by the beauty of a charming damsel3 Lay down his life non-violently. HUKAM CHAND GUPTA (Delhi) Can you tcl! me whether modern girls should be given full freedom or not? They take it whether you give it or not. Freedom is never given, it is arrogated. What do you think of the British Film Team that has left Britain on a study of India? I think of the days when the East India Company sent its mercenary scouts to India and — GHULAM JILANI (Hyderabad Deccan) It is said that Europe has devised a machine which reads the mind. What will the women do now? Machines can read only something definite. A woman's mind is infinite. SAVAK NANAVATI (Allahabad) Can you name any Hindi picture without a single song? "Dr. Kotnis". There is neither song in it nor any music. THAKAR J B. LAL KHACHl (Lahore) What would you suggest to an Indian, who is being insulted by a Britisher, because of the former's nationality? A straight one on the chin. Is that non-violence? H S PAREEK (Meerut) Is love-sickness something like sea-sickness? Oh no. there is a lot of difference. In sea-sickness you vomit — in the other one you swallow — anything. C R. K. MURTHY (Shikohabad) May I know whether the shape of the bread in the days of Omar Khayyam was the same as it is today? (Reference, the February "filmindia" cover.) If the shape of the stomach was the same, how could the shape of the bread be different? S DARSHAN (New Delhi) How far do you believe in luck? Only as long as it can kick the wits out of me. In good days luck is considered superfluous. L. N. RAO (Adoni) I don't know why Ranjit producer Mr. Chandulal Shah is producing rotten stuff nowadays? Nowadays? You are a modest man! Unish and Geeta Bose make a new team in "Etbar", a social story of 14th Century Pictures. 25