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September 1946
FILM INDIA
knows too many things too well as our producers found out after years of his secretaryship.
AND MORE COMING.
The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies in Calcutta is having a headache these days. Over a hundred production companies have applied for registration of their intentions at his office. And the intentions, probably, are to produce more rotten pictures for the Indian screen.
OPTIMISM
The Criminal Investigation Department of the Bombay Police is investigating a theft of 12 cases of 35 mm. Kodak film which was stolen recently from the Race Course compound at Mahaluxmi.
In its efforts to trace the thieves, the Department has appealed to This is how our artistes fence in India. Here is Surendra doing the t,u fllin producers for assistance, impossible in "1857" a story of Murari Pictures. expecting the offenders to dispose
" off the goods to producers who
help various humanitarian causes, collecting a total of rupees two lakhs.
With his studied humility, Pnthviraj always overdoes things. To prove this he begs for money, after the Gandhian fashion, after every show. This way he has already collected and handed over Hs. 55,000| to I. N. A. Fund.
Prithvi's "Decwar" has been a great success as a stage play. Over 100.000 people have already seen the show and within a year nearly 160 shows have been staged.
But "Deewar" didn't have quite a smooth sailing. Some Muslims didn't like the complexion of the play and Prithviraj has been in the danger of his life for fully one year. For a while he consented to cut out a few bits as a concession to the rowdies, but then that spoilt his show and he had to switch back to the original after the A.I.C.C. members had seen ' Decwar" and liked it.
Prithvi still gets on an average a dozen life-and-death threats a day but that is all in the day's work for a man who doesn't mind dying in pursuit of his ideals.
WALKING TICKET
Ram L. Gogtay, the ex-Secretary of the Indian Producers' Aseociation, it is reliably undcr
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stood, has been given a walkingticket by the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer who had engaged him and sent him to America for training in the 16 m.m. field so that he can learn things there and come back and work for them in India.
They must have found our wise boy too wise probably. Gogtay
ncen ine nun lor use every aay.
While the Department means well, we must Bay it lacks imagination.
THRICE WELCOME!
It is good news for the film industry in India that an experienced and intelligent journalist like K. Ahmed Abbas has now
Sheikh Mukhtar doesn't like the way Kanhaiyalal is putting it over to Kiran in "Bhookh" written and directed by Dr. Safdar 'Ah'.