FilmIndia (1946)

September 1946 FILM1ND1 A in all the boxes of six seats and one too many in a box of four at present and the space is still too cramped to provide any comfort d> Mr. Kuka'g patrons. Instead of demanding ''an unconditional apology" from us. and this good habit we have not yet cultivated, it would be better if Mr. Kuka makes a real paradise out of his picture house by making it the second Metro of Bombay. That i~ :( better outlet for the energies of an enthu iastic showman than sponsoring a court case against well-meaning journalists. Mr. Kuka has already done a lot of pleasant transformation with the one-time old rickety Novelty Cinema which even rats once entered with apologetic blushes. But improvements can never end and not with an idealistic and enthusiastic showman like Kuka. Let him throw out the preseul straight backed chairs from the boxes and give some really comfortable seats for IK 3 8. which he charges for a single seat to see, usually. ;i rotten Indian picture. YOU'LL HARDLY BELIEVE That Editor K. M. Multani of the >.fficial journal of the Indian film industry while bragging about the amalgamation of the Independent Film Producers Association with the I.M.P.P.A., writes in his Editorial of July: "this ominous event upset all calculations of the cynic and the pessimist". The word "ominous" means in the English language: ill-omened, foreboding evil, sinister. Is the union of the two associations really all that? That on page 5 of the same issue. Editor Multani once again uses the word "ominous" in welcoming the assurances given by the directors of the Central Cine Corporation. He says, "assurances given should be considered ominous of a better future for the Indian News Parade." That is an insult of Ambalal Patcl who ha6 invested a lot of money in the Indian News Parade. Wonder why Multani should behave as if he knows the English language thoroughly. The Producers' Association should buy a dictionary for Multani. This foreign language is a ticklish problem, more so with the half-educated. That after "filinindia's" agitation, members of the Producers' Paradise have sworn not only not to slander the insurance industry but also all other industries including their own. That the members of the Producers' Paradise even offered to burn the negative of "Dhamki" and "Tadbir" near the Opera House as proof of thf impenitence but the insurance companies, who had covered the films, begged on their knees to give up the idea. "Dhamki" and "Tadbir" producers were naturally very disappointed. They missed a quick collection of profits. That members of the Producers' Paradise, under their president. Chhotu Desai, Janak of Janak have* decided to overhaul the entire film press with the help of a sub-committee. Why don't these people (bi some spring cleaning in their own homes? That K. S. Hirlckar. the man with a lot of monkey energy, is very wild these days with Van Though she works in "The Stranger" produced by RKO Radio, Loretta Young is not such a stranger to millions of filmgoers in India. kudre Shantaram for taking Dewan Sharar all ihe way to America, leaving all the monkey energy behind. And Hirlckar had travelled between Bombay and Delhi so many times to bring the Indian News Parade bacon home for the Kolhapuri producer. Poor Hirlckar, they take ideas from him and always switch him off at the last minute. That Vankudre Shantaram got scared of flying to America, so he quietly boarded a troop transport with his wife keeping Dewan Sharar only a step behind. That people counted nearly 300 garlands round Vankudre Shantaram's thick neck and knew how many persons were exactly working in the Rajkamal Studios. That after decorating Shantaram, the garlands were passed on to Jayashree and then Dewan Sharar carried them to the ship. That Dada Kashinath, the Shaukat of Rajkamal, is now master of all he surveys at the Kalamandir and even the extra girls get scared of him these days. They don't like his bald top somehow. It is too glossy to grow anything outside or even inside. That hurt by the fact that it took him 15 years to produce the first hundred pictures. Sardar Chandulal Shah has this time sworn to produce the second hundred in five years. Wo wish him god-speed and advise the film-goers to look out for ophthalmologists. That the Sardar saw Producer Kardar's "Shah .lelian" and wondered from where his writer, Pandit 19