FilmIndia (1946)

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ily, 1946 FILMINDI A WITH A NEW THRILL IN HER VOICE KANAN WILL SING HER WAY • TO YOUR HEARTS M. P. Productions' Musical Mil with CHAEBI. \AHA R, PURNIMA, NAT WAR and IFTIKHAR. '±:,-...-i,J fv PRAM E N MITRA WATCH FOR ITS RELEASE For CENTRAL PROVINCES: JAMNADAS LTD. For SOUTH : SELECT PICTURES CIRCUIT. For BENGAL : MANS AT A FILM DISTRIBUTORS. "Dr. Kotnis". They say the idea is to popularise the Manipuri styles of Dada's and Anna's daughters. Tickets will naturally he black-marketed giving Dada Baldy an opportunity to display his organizing talent. That 'Shaukat' Dada's organizing talent is reported to have been bottled up for the present in Rajkamal and Shantaram Anna is attending to all things. No wonder. 'Shaukat' Dada feels like Cardinal Wolsey in his last days. That an association of junior film artistes has been started in Bombay as a counter-blast to the Modis and Prithvis of the senior association. Navin Yagnik, a minor, has been elected as the president and 'Baby' Sunalini Devi (50) is one of the vicepresidents. We wish this children's association all success. That the one-eyed journalist of India is busy writing "Cleopatra" for Zahur Raja and is doing it in the ancient Cleoptra style at a shack in Juhu, Egypt and all. That the shack idea of the one-eyed penman seems to have appealed to our film directors who refuse to do night shootings these days and assemble at Juhu to toast Cleoptra in labour. That film-actor Baburao Pendharkar had once upon a time taken a shack at Juhu. but stray dogs slept in it as Baburao was always discovered on the sands next morning taking a sun bath in sleep. That sometimes when some film people take a shack at Juhu. the local residents require police protection and the Municipality has to pay extra bonus to the scavengers. That is a strain on the little village. That one wonders why the film people should go to sea-side shacks at all, when even film laboratories grant all the licenses these days. In modern times, our labs require more whiskey and soda than chemicals for developing films. That in the recent shortage of raw films, blackmarketeers are reported to have sold some old stunt pictures in brand new tins, saving the producers the labour of exposing the film once again. At Rs. 1200|a tin these films paid better than with their secrets exposed in the theatres. That one flour-merchant was offering as much as Rs. 100| for an empty new tin of film and Rs. 25| for the adhesive band around it. 50"/ more was paid for Kodak negative tins. Camera assistants are reported to have made as much as Rs. 2000] each during a single month. That by some strange magic, fogged Dupont film was discovered in Kodak film tins and every one around swore that all the labels were found intact. These Americans have now become magicians. One day they will do the Indian Rope Trick and won't even leave us any rope to hang ourselves. That with a single rumour the black-marketeers got all the officials of Kodak 'arrested' by the Congress Ministry and thus effected their own escape. That's camouflage which the Germans should have used against the British. 17