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November, 1946
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Recruit S. A. Kumar c o K. Satyanarayana, Tanoko, West Godavari, is 5' 9" and reads and writes Urdu in addition to Hindi and Tamil.
dustry are so peculiar that unless the popular ministries adopt some precise official measures, I am afraid, the contents and the quality of our pictures may not improve.
"We cannot permit the old rotten order of things to go on indefinitely. Labelling their pictures as historical, mythological and social, the producers have in several cases given such heartless distortions of facts, events and problems that our spiritual heritage, historical traditions and contemporary life have all become an unrecognizable mass of trash — and often very shameful. A lot of the stuff produced has been pseudo-historical, anti-social and anti-cultural and some day when the people become conscious of the way they have been duped, they will ask for an inquiry into this shady business and demand their money back or destroy all the theatres showing such pictures.''
FUTURE LEGISLATION
"Haven't the Government yet formulated some plans to reorganize the film industry?" I asked.
"Well, we have not been long in the saddle", said Mr. Morarji almost sadly, "and we have so many things to do. Almost every problem seems to need a reorientation in the light of our new freedom. We have been pretty busy all these days but we hope
to tackle this problem very soon and seriously.
"I attach a very great importance to the film as a medium of visual education for social, educational and cultural work. And as I don't believe in any conversion of the heart on the part of the producers the unpleasant choice for a popular government must be corrective legislation.
"I may tell you that the Government is seriously considering the operation of a strict censor
ship, prescribing a definite standard of production from a national point of view — through a Board of Censors.
"The Board of Censors will see that pictures, poisoning the minds of the growing children, will be done away with. It is intended to issue different certificates for pictures suitable for children and for adults.
"The Government are also considering important problems, equally serious, of improvements
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