FilmIndia (1946)

October, 1946 FILMINDI \ Mrs. SAKEENA ASHRAF (Patna) I want t<> send a wedding present to Mehtab Modi. What kind of a present do you suggest? Send your blessings for a long and happy life. It' you are a 'nationalist', why don't you publish an 'Idd' number of "filmindia"? What has nationalism to do with Idd? Tomorrow someone else will ask me to print a Ganpati Number. V. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN (Coimbatore) Birth control — Is it a sin or a virtue? That d< pends on the purse-control. MISS GAITRI KASI (New Delhi) In India, why can't a maiden smile without being misunderstood? Come and smile to me. I xcon't misunderstand you. V. RAMASWAMY (Robertsonpet) In spite of your repeated warnings the South Indian film directors are going from bad to worse. Why can't you help them? Even dod helps tJiem that help themselves. Kardar, Mehboob and Sohrab Modi are not advertising their films in "filmindia" only because you do not praise them. / always praise them but I can't guarantee praising tlx it pictures unless I like these productions. OM PRAKASH DUGGAL (Lahore) Should we expect any new thing in your longawaited "( Ivalan"? Jaimj and Paro team together in "Dhamvan' produced by Mr. V. M. Vyas. Don't be silly. If I give something new you blokes won't like it or even spot it. If you find something new in "Gvalan" I shall lose a tennei to you. What would you do in the position of a young collegian who comes across a beautiful damsel in a lonely place? I would escort her home safely and call on her the next day to inquire about her health. KUNTI RAIZADA (Muzaffarnagar) What is your idea of a happy married life? Life with some one who shares both the smiles and the sighs. MISS YESHODA K NEDUNGADI (Palghat) What is modesty to a woman in the filmland? Identically the same ornament as to the woman outside the films. Has a woman got a right to a baby if she needs one? A woman always needs one and she has the world's right to get one. V. N. KULKARNI (Deolali) If a law is passed giving every woman a right to divorce at her sweet will, do you think Indian wives will take advantage of it? Indian wives observe several strict fasts to get the same husband through different births. At bast, the Hindu ones do I think Gunjal, Luhar and Dwarka Khosla are lacing to present flops upon flops. Tell me, who beats whom? Kedar Sharma beats them all — by a street. ARJUN TAHILRAMANI (Karachi) The strongly you emphasise the secrecy of a tiling, the more quickly is a woman liable to give the secret away. Why? Women are delivery vans. They don't like strange things inside them too long. MOHAMMED HANIM (Cuttack) Nobody can say which of the many religions in this world is the best unless one makes a thorough study of all. which is rather difficult though not impossible. In the circumstances, do you think it would be better for us to stick to the religion of our birth or to make a scrutiny of all the religions and then adopt the one considered best? All the religions in the world i re good and great. They are only different paths to the same Divinity. The religion a man inherits with his birth is always the best for him because it suits liis natural environments and inherited urges. The child takes its first sip of religion from its mother's breast anil the first taste never disappears through ten conversions. G. V PRABHU (Kumta) Some papers do not print film advertisements to be free from the pressure money can put and to be able to give frank and unbiassed views of films. You accept all sorts of advertisements and yet manage to 33