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November, 1946
Kamal Kapur makes his 'debut as a film actor in "Dak Bungalow" produced by Indian National Pictures Ltd.
/ would back you up if you murder the producer. You might be let off on grounds of sudden provocation. BANWARI BHARTI RAJAK (Aligarh)
A boy spoils a girl or a girl spoils a boy?
When both are spoiling to meet, who spoils whom?
MRS. R KAMALA DEVI (Trichinopoly)
A film actress is often looked down with contempt by family people. Why?
That thought is the reflection of their own frustration. Half of them would love to be film actresses only if they could. Can you say how many of our South Indian actresses have legal husbands and children?
7s there a Prohibition Act in the South?
N. A. KHAN (Lahore)
Cinema is considered to be one of the means by which the gulf between Hindu-Muslim cultures can be bridged. Please suggest ways to do it.
There is no cultural gulf between the Hindu and the Muslim. Both are heirs to the same heritage. The present political quarrel will end some day and then it will be difficult to separate the two great communities. The Indian film producers, who understand nothing of any cid
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tural or social problems, should keep their noses out of this affair. Uneducated and uncultured as they are, what can the producers preach about cidture?
SHAKUR (Jodhpur)
What is woman: light or darkness? She is the light in darkness. HATIM TAYABALLY (Secunderabad) Do you believe in politics and why?
Belief is thrust on me the way I find the riots taking the salt out of my bread. T. S. MEHTA (Madras)
When do you propose acting? You mean stop acting? DIPCHAND KHIAURA (Karachi)
Why is Durga Khote called Durga Khote still and not Durga Rashid?
Durga Khote is a trade name. Mrs. Rashid is a personal one.
BHOLANATH TYAGI (Arrah)
Which lips are sweeter to kiss: thick ones or thin ones?
Only those which are sweetened with honeyhearts.
G. N. SHESHADRI (Hassan)
The foremost film concerns of today are New Theatres, Rajkamal, Bombay Talkies, Prabhat and Mehboob Productions. We are not getting any information about the doings of these. Why?
They hove something to hide, I guess. Do you believe in a patent medicine published under the caption: "Be Taller".
That is rather too tall to believe.
MISS INDRA TANDAN (Dehra Dun)
Which would you prefer: a pig tail or a cocktail?
To be sure, a cocktail. The pigtail may belong to a Chinese man.
G. KUTTALAM PILLAI (Trivandrum)
Mr. Patel! Are there any sadists among our film artistes?
The way they torture art, it will be difficult not to find one.
SATISH CHANDER SAKHIYA (Lyallpur)
What do you think is better: To struggle for life or to rest in peace?
The dead rest in peace. V. S. GOSWAMI (New Delhi)
What was your first impulse on getting the news of the Calcutta holocaust?
That the goondas had begun to gather the harvest sown by the politicians.
S PRAKASH SETHI (New Delhi)
Why is the cap worn by Congressmen called the 'Gandhi Cap' whereas Mahatma Gandhi never wears it?
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