FilmIndia (1946)

FILMINDIA May, 1946 CHANDRIKA PRASAD VARMA (Patna) Mr. Patel, I ask you most cordially, have you got any prejudice against Bihar that you very seldom give place to questions sent by Biharis? I don't know where the Biharis and the Oriyas are. They are all the same to me even if they yell from the Andamans. HANS RAJ BHUGRA (Karachi) Mr. Baburao Patel. How is it that your name has not appeared on the list of invitees to Delhi to meet the Cabinet Ministers? There is no Pakistan in the Indian film industry and the Cabinet Ministers don't need to see me. In the film industry we have all the four freedoms and more. K J. RAMASWAMY (Mandya) Which is the drama in which Mr. Baburao Patel and Sushila Rani have acted or will act? "Life Is Not An Empty Dream." MISS BIMLA R. LAL (Delhi) j What is the difference between a ''girl" and a "woman"? A girl is the "warning" of the "danger" ahead. ROSHAN LAL VERMA (New Delhi) Why do lovers go 'sentimental' on moony nights? They try to tell the moon a few stories he doesn't know and with their own echoes console their aching hearts. IKRAM R. KHAN (New Delhi) What is the best way of spending surplus money? Buy copies of "filmindia" and present them to yonr best friends. What does a 'heart-throb' signify? An attractive woman within 100 yards. DURGA DASS SHARMA (Amritsar) In your last issue you wrote that you are hated by everyone, then why not by Sushila Rani? Sushila can't hate me because in doing so she will end by hating herself. SHREE KANT MODY (Calcutta) What is wrong with your old friend Shantaram nowadays? I don't like the unchivalrous way in which he advertises his own name pushing his charming and talented wife behind. T. PRABHAKAR (Bangalore) Who is this Rafiq Anwar? I wish I knew. I have never heard of "it". N. V. R. SWAMY (Negapatam) So many aristocrats In India think that it is beneath their dignity to see Indian pictures. They consider it a pride to attend English films. Aristocrats or slaves? MRS. INDRA RANI (Cawnpore) Veena is the moon of our film industry? That Is why, perhaps, her talent Is so often In eclipse. Do you approve of Masud Parvez as an actor1 He didn't give me even a dog's chance in "OhmIami". Is it ttttet to he thick-lipped in UCer 34 Looks like. One thick-lipped guy won Jayashree, a talented artiste. MISS YESHODA K. NEDUNGADI (Palghat) Have you ever examined the heart of a film star? I have to spot one yet to proceed with the examination. How and with what do you measure the beauty of a woman? With the strings of my heart. Oh! Big brother. Can you dance? Yes, if the partner doesn't step on my toes. P. GOPINATH (Bombay) It beauty is squeezed, what do we get? More beauty. Who are the "suckers" of our film industry? The fools who pay at the box-offices. Rs. 500 IN 25 PRIZES EVERY MONTH The following prizes will be awarded every month for questions which are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editors Mail:" 1st Prize: Rs. 100[-; 2nd Prize: Rs. 80 -; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50'-; 4th prize: Rs. 40-; 5th Prize: Rs. 30|-; and 20 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 10each. Questions must be submitted with the Entry Token (printed below) without which no questions will be considered. Each Entry Token entitles the reader to ask a maximum of 10 questions and can be used only by one person. The Editor's decision shall be final and absolutely binding and no correspondence will be entertained. The names of the prize-winners will be announced in "filmindia" every month and the prize money will be remitted by Money Order. PRIZE WINNERS FOR MAY 1st Prize Rs. 25| to Madhav Keeriyot (Bombay); 2nd Prize Rs. 201 to H. S. Pareek (Meerut); 3rd Prize Rs. 15U to A. N. Narayana Rao (Bangalore); 4th Prize Rs. 10| to Sultan Salah Uddin (Bhusawal) and 6 consolation prizes of Rs. 5f each to the following: — Swaraj Narain Saxena (New Delhi); Sadruddin (Mombasa); Ravindra Nath Sahgal (Lahore); K. D. Saraswati (Poona) ; Mrs. Indra Rani (Cawnpore) and Miss Yeshodha Nedungadi (Palghat). Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners. Tear this Entry Token and attach it to your questions.