FilmIndia (1946)

October 1946 crrieisc the products of your benefactors without . or fear, with apparently no harm to your ousiness. How is that? Advertisers of "filmindia" are not benefactors. They benefit themselves by using the huge circulation of the magazine. They often advertise very attractively to counteract my reviews and very often they succeed. What is the reaction on an average producer, actor, actress and the director when you criticise a picture of theirs in your usual inimitable style — and if your review condemns their work? The review always reacts on me. I give honest criticism and bring home dishonest abuse. S. D. PURANIK (Bombay) Which one. out of the two groups from the Indian National Congress i.e. Rightists and Leftists, can give the correct lead in the present critical times? The Rightists are on the right path. They are cashing their opportunity of a Labour Government in England. The next elections may bring the Conservatives back into the saddle and the Indian ribs may again feel the bayonet. Instead of wasting time in ideological conflicts, the Rightists are out to squeeze out the Declaration of Indian Independence, before the labouring conscience of the Labourites dies on the threshhold of their ideals. P. G RAO (Bombay) If you are made dictator for a day, what would you do? A day wouldn't be enough to ferret out all the slippery producers from their different haunts. KALIM GHAFFAR (Bhopal) Can marriage and parenthood improve the character of a man? They may blunt the edge of desire and check the temptations. H R SACHDEV (New Delhi) In my opinion, a Punjabi village girl walking with a pitcher on her head has the most charming gait in the world. Do you agree? Wait till you see the girl from Kolhapur with three pots on her head. RAHAT ALI KHAN (Meerut) What is Shantaram teaching nowadays in his Film Academy? How to become Shantaram. Why are people so jealous of you? Xot any that matter. V 1, MEHTA (Bombay) ■ would you like me bringing some 500 goon to the opening show of "Gvalan"? Your goondas might like "Gvalan'' and insisi your paying for them to see the picture aqa> id again. That will be carrying back the I edy home. Remember, even goonda* like ei 'ertainment. By the way, as you belong 34 to the tame 'stable' as Sardar Chcndulal. may I know whether the Celluloid Sardar has beera putting these goondaism ideas in your vegetarian brain? Rs. 500 IN 25 PRIZES EVERY MONTH The following prizes are awarded every month for questions which are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editor's Mail. " 1st Prize: Rs. 100 -; 2nd Prize: Rs. 80-; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50-; 4th Prize: Rs. 40-; 5th Prize: Rs. 30-; and 20 Consolation Prizes of Rs. 10 each. Questions must be submitted with the Entry Token without which no question will be considered. Each Entry Token entitles the reader to ask a maximum of 10 questions and can be used by only one person. The Editor's decision shall be final and absolutely binding and no correspondence will be entertained. The names of the prize-winners will be announced in "filmindia" every month and the prize money will be remitted by Money Order. The Entry Token is separately attached on the first page of the editorial article. As each copy is very carefully checked, readers are requested not to pay for the copy if it has no Entry Token. The reader is requested to demand an explanation from the stall-keeper who may have removed the Token and sold it separately. As Tokens are introduced merely to regulate the sales of the magazine, the month on the Token has no particular significance and a token can be used even six months after the month printed on it. PRIZE WINNERS FOR OCTOBER 1st Prize Rs. 100 to K. M. Kapadia (Bombay); 2nd Prize Rs. 80 to Kailash Nandan Prasad (Chapra); 3rd Prize Rs. 50 to K. U. Kamath 'Mangalorei; 4th Prize Rs. 40 to Lachmandas J. M. (Hyderabad Sind); 5th Prize Rs. 30 to Jacob B. (Bombay); and 20 consolation prizes of Rs. 10 each to the following:— P. N. Garg dndorei; U. C. Agrawal (Kasganj); N. S. Venkata Rao (Mysore); N. V. R. Swamy (Negapatami; Nagendra Kumar Bahuguna (Lucknow); Kr. Rajendra Singh (Agra); Mrs. Indra Rani (Bina); Ehsan Rasul Khan (New Delhi); R. Annaji Rao (Mangalore); K. purushottam Rao (Hyderabad Dn. ); J. R. Ansari (Multan); T. J. Satyanathan (Madras); Om Prakash Goyle (Warangal); S. P. Jeratt (Karachi): G. B. Narang (Quetta); Madhukumar H. Saraya (Bombay); Mrs. Sakeena Ashraf (Patna); V. Sivaramakrishnan (Coimbatore > ; Arjun Tahilramani (Karachi) and Mohammed Hanim (Cuttack). Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners.