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V. 1946
FILM INDIA
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! language to explain to us the veiled meanings of our film songs. If they don't why are they given so res' ponsible a job of censoring pictures which affect the I lives of millions from day to day?
The Congress leaders advise every Indian to learn his Hindustani as a national language and yet we find responsible Government officers, who have to discharge their very duties only with the help of an efficient knowledge of Hindustani, stumbling through their work clumsily without this knowledge. 1 How else can one understand the subtleties of a Hindustani picture without a thorough knowledge of the language?
Minister Morarji has just stepped into his newsaddle but we would like him to end this apparent anomaly as quickly as possible so that our people feel that our Congress Ministers are fulfilling their promises to the people.
Coming to the words of wisdom uttered by Minister Morarji at the Producers' Association, let Morarji not live in a fool's paradise by imagining that our producers are going to improve their methods of work because the Congress Ministries are in office and our ministers are uttering wise words of advice.
Minister Morarji Desai will have to be born seven times over before he finds our film industry improving on right national lines with mere words of advice whatever their weight in wisdom.
People in the Indian film industry don't improve so easily. But because they don't improve, they are not to be put on the shelf with indifference as their product vitally affects every home and every individual of our nation.
The good work of our popular ministries, done after years of labour and sacrifice, can be nullified within a few months by our irresponsible producers with the help of their films running counter to the interests of our people.
The Indian film industry netds a national code I of production stating in precise and unambiguous terms the do's and don'ts of motion picture making for a future nation. There is no sense in calling the people of the film industry rotters and allowing these rotters to run amuck and give us within a fewyears a whole nation of rotters.
Patriotism demands that our film industry should be planned on national lines and an immediate beginning should be made by controlling the producers through official censorship. Though censorship is a negation of democracy, wise censorship is most essential in a country, debauched by two centuries of slavery, now trying to find its ancient soul and -elf-respect.
In the meantime we request Minister Morarji to see "Bachchon-Ka-Khel" and hear carefully I those two songs, Xos. 3 and 7, from the lips of child . I ren of 11 and 12 and imagine the children in his own ! home singing them.