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( In this section, the editor himself replies to queries from the readers. As thousands of letters are received every month — some anxious and several frivolous — it is neither possible nor convenient to attend to all. Selected letters are usually treated in an informative and humorous strain and no offence is meant to anyone. )
SURESH PRASAD JAISWAL (Patna)
If you are made the dictator of India, what I would you do first?
Begin with the producers end end with the politicians. Note don't ask me ichat. Which is better: an ugly flower with good perfume or a beautiful flower without any perfume?
Fragrance is the flower. A flower without fragrance is like a iroman without charm.
M. SARWAR RIJA (Karachi)
Are you not really hurt when some people dare to criticize you?
/ would be terribly hurt if they ignored me. But they dare not. I am their mental obsession.
P N GARG (Indore)
A friend of mine, young, handsome and the son of a wealthy man dreams day and night of taking up film production as a career. But he has no brains, no push and not much ability. How and where Humid he start?
No brains, no push, no ability! That means he is perfectly qualified to become a film producer. Ask him to start in Bombay. There are plenty to show him the way. After two years, he won't be 'the son of a wealthy man.' The replies given by you to most of the questions in the 'Editor's Mail' are frivolous and lighthearted. Could you not manage to be a little serious?
How do you expect me to be serious in a stupid industry? I'll be a dead man if I don't nurse my sense of humour. Besides, life outside, with human stomachs torn open in the streets is so tragic that a little frivolousness comes in handy as a useful tonic.
U. C. AGARWAL (Kasganj)
Is there any Association of film stars where they can inert and discuss about their industry?
There is. but they don't meet. And when they meet, they don't discuss. They quarrel Do actresses pray to God? , Yes, tin-gods! Do you love or hate the film stars?
/ love the stars and hate the producers. The stars are helpless victims of versatile capitalist*.
SHAKUNTALA VERMA (Chapra)
How is it that our film industry is still immune from the 'strike-fever'?
It is not. We have already had strikes and even the Celluloid-Sardar had to take it lying down when his crowd icent on strike. Why do wedlocks in our country turn into dead)cks9
Because the partners don't take into their homes love locks as mascots. What is your opinion about the 'purdah' system?
The 'purdah' is an unnecessary teater which makes men more inquisitive apart from the woman missing the sun tan of beauty. Besides, the 'purdah' constitutes an evidence of male suspicions about a woman's character. Why hide a face which the Sun would like to kiss every day? GOPAL (Mysore) Don't you think your reviews are destructive?
Of course, they are. I want to root out the rotten weed and in its place plant a little tree that will some day grow and yield healthy fruit with natural hues.
Nur Jehan seems to have grown in "Hamjoli", a social story now running at the Majestic Cinema.
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