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October, 1946
FILMING I A
to make money somehow or anyhow. Even "Lavangi", on which money has been lavishly spent for publicity, is a disconnected and concocted story with a criminal waste of raw film on extraneous scenes.
'When provinces are going to be reconstructed as autonomous units, movies in the regional languages are equally important and their improvement equally essen^ tial. side by side with the movies in the common language and their improvement. May I hope that you will pay more attention to South Indian film industry also?"
V. S. R. Krishna. TADEPALLK IFI ).\ M QUITE TRUE "Director Vedi has wasted a lot of time in "Room No. 9" in setting up the "Sexy Dance" with some half-naked damsels, and it is nothing more and nothing less than exhibiting the dirty legs, thighs and the clumsy, jerking of hips and one fails to understand the art in these vulgar and indecent dances. This kind of cheap and obscene dances which have vicious influence on the mind and
culture of the masses, is a matter which calls for immediate attention of the Government. It is a pity that censors also seem to have taken too optimistic a view of the scene and passed it easily, altogether overlooking their duty to the public.
"One cannot overlook the fact that clothes have a dramatic value as well as an aesthetic purpose, and after all there is a limit of acting one can do in a sarong.
"Though sex plays a prominent part in human life and is also an essential clement of entertainment, too much of it has a demoralizing effect on the minds of the people."
BOMBAY. Unny. SERVICE
"Recently I went to see "Subhadra" at Roxy Talkies. When I enter the hall, I saw that all the tickets of annas 10 were reserved and it was not necessary to rush for the seats. I have visited many Indian cinemas but "Roxy" is the only picture-house where the tickets of ten annas have reserved seats."
BOMBAY. Farukh ./. .4. Somjec.
IMMATERIAL
"The exhibitors of the North find your honest reviews of pictures very helpful to guide them when offering huge Mg's and settling terms of booking with the distributors.
"Is it therefore, not possible for you to give the censoring date just below the date of release in the panel? I am sure this information will prove very beneficial to us."
DELHI. Wazir Singh Jain.
NO IMAGINATION
"The other day I had been to Prabhat with my family members, all of whom were ladies, to see 'Pahli Nazar.' I bought five tickets of Rs. 1-14-0 each. When we entered the cinema house. I found it difficult to get five seats together. One seat was vacant at one end while the other one was at the other end. So at last we were forced to sit in a batch of 1. 2 and 2 and thus we could not enjoy the picture though it was a fairly good one.
"I am at a loss to understand as to why these cinema owners do not number the seats as well as
SUMRISE PICTURES
PICTURES
p t e J e n t
A conflicting drama depicting the pathetic lot of the downtrodden, silver-lined by the immortal flames of hope.
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Featuring :SITARA, M. ISMAIL, PARO, UMAKANT, RADHA, PANDE.
Direction: V. M. Vyas. Story: M. G. Dave. Dialogues : Kabil Amritsari, Music : Shanti Kumar, An : Yusuf Dhala.
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