FilmIndia (1946)
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July, 1946
FILM INDIA
waste and sooner will the stocks exhaust giving us all a little rest from rotten pictures. M. E. DINKAR RAO (Madras)
I love Begum Para after seeing "'Chhamia'. What is the remedy?
See "Chand" and love may turn into dislike. Could you tell me the correct age of Protima Das Gupta?
Mental age 60, physical age a risky guess. What has happened to our baby actress Vasanti? She entered a home and closed the door on
us.
MOHD. ABDUL VAHEED (Hyderabad Dn.)
What is Director Vijay Bhatt doing these days?
Fixing up domestic problems and bragging on the A. I. R. M P RAMAKRISHNAN (New Delhi)
Can we expect 100% art in your "Gvalan"?
100% is a bit too thick, give us a trade discount.
SUSHIL C. JAIN (New Delhi)
Is satisfaction of desire the end of love?
It is one of the expressions of love. What is your opinion about the saying: "No life without wife"?
If 'life' means struggle. N. S. V. CHALAM (Bangalore)
What is the difference between an Indian wife and an European wife?
To their respective husbands, none. Is "filmindia" a magazine of the youth only? Have our elders nothing to learn from it?
Lots. They haw youth to take from it. Can a man be sincere to two women at a time? At a time, no. At different times, perhaps! MRS. ABDUL AZEEZ (Madras)
Is there any relationship between Veera of "Shikari" and Mr. M. Abdullah?
It is a very old-fashioned and conventional tie. The bloke has married the girl. S. R MHATRE (Bombay)
At what date should a girl be allowed to date?
When her nights become long and days too short.
Almost all journalists except D. F. Karaka abuse you. Why?
Dossu Karaka is behind times, being too
busy with his own work. NOTAN DAS (Cawnpore)
Which is the best way to teach you a good lesson? Come over to Bombay and have it out with
me and let us see who learns what. I have heard
quite a good many pups talking like that and
would like to meet at least one who can show his
teeth with the bark. R. S. SUNDAR (Cawnpore)
You have not published your photo in "filmindia" for some time now. May I know the reason?
There has been no improvement in me
recently.
M. NARAYAN RAO (PoomO
If there had been no Baburao Patel, what would have been the state of our film industry today?
The film industry would have been a family secret.
"If a man speaks ill of you, answer him not. If any man offends you, forgive him in the name of God." Do you believe in this?
Xo. If some one speaks ill, I don't bother.
If some one offends me, I often forgive him in
the name of his wife, who might become a widow. HARI SINGH MUKHARYA (Saugor)
Why shouldn't that talented artiste Raj Kapoor take up the screen as his career?
He has. He is not a guy to wait till he is
told.
H. MAD AN (Bombay)
Is the progress of our film industry dependent on our political emancipation? Completely.
If the popular Congress Government decides to
abolish "races" what will you do with your horse
"filmindia."?
/ shall go riding him every morning.
XAZIR AHMED (Lahore)
What will be your first reaction if your friend's
wife makes advances towards you?
All my friends have good wives, and they love their husbands. Besides, my own behaviour does not suggest such dirty thoughts to the women I meet. A friend's home is a temple of faith.
PRITHI PAUL SINGH (Lahore)
Do you agree with the general belief that women are inferior to men?
No. I worship women as a community.
I had a dame in view. Last month, as a token of love, I sent her a copy of "filmindia", and now I find that instead of thanking me and inclining towards me. she has taken a fancy to you. Mr. Patel. what should be done now?
Write to her and tell her that I am already
sold out.
Between Madhok and Pandit Indra who is more philosophic?
Panditji is philosophic in thought while
Madhok takes his work philosophically. S. K. NAKUL (New Delhi)
You can easily be called a "minority" among the critics in India who are against you. So why do you veto the advance of the majority?
/ am an intellectual minority in the midst
of an ignorant majority that tries to understand
me but failing to do so, ends by writing against
me.
Is there any lease-lend star in our film industry?
When you see the word "courtesy" in advertisements, the star is a lease-and-lend commodity. Your "filmindia" is no less than a magnetic
mine. What's the weapon that can be used against
it?
Sincerity of purpose and an intellectual approach to production work.
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