FilmIndia (1946)

FILM INDIA December, 1946 ministries can't have the least objection to this form of peaceful protest at other stations where there are no riots. The admission prices of our theatres must come clown to pre-war level whether the exhibitors like it or not. And students can't do a better job during their Christmas vacation. A. I. R. AND OUR PRODUCERS! By tome process of self-hypnosis the members of the Executive Committee of the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association seem to have arrogated to themselves the supreme power of telling All India Radio what to do and what not where Indian film reviews are concerned. At the instance of Mr. Sohrab Modi of Minerva Movietone, the members of the Producers' Association thrashed out the other day the inconvenient problem of film reviews by A. I. R. and within a few seconds unanimously agreed that "continuance of film reviews by A. I. R. would not be desirable" and within the next few seconds it was decided to communicate this august decision to A. I. K. The A. I. R. authorities arc now expected to run out of the field with their tai's in. Of all the stupid people in the world th<; average film producer of India is about the most stupid. And like all idiots he is hyper-sensitive in addition. Instead of being ashamed of his shamefully blank record of thirty years in regard to quality and contents of his motion pictures, he has the impudence to object to honest criticism about his consistently putrid product. When film periodicals and newspapers criticize Indian films, the producers always accuse the critics of blackmailing to get advertisements. Actually the daily papers have been blackmailed by the producers at different times with the result that all honest criticism has been blacked out of the dai'ies on pain of losing the producers' advertisements. The film press has been almost made sterile by well-paid laudatory write-ups from producers and today with the solitary exception of "filmindia" there is hardly a film magazine in the country which has the courage to print what its critic really thinks of Indian pictures. Even the ''filmindia" has been blackmailed by the producers several times by commercial boycott of the magazine and its Editor. Even today all the leading producers of India don't use the columns of "filmindia" for advertising their pictures, in spite of their tacit conviction about the huge countrywide circulation of the magazine, because Editor Baburao Pate] refuses to be bought over and refuses to give misleading and laudatory reviews of their pictures. Most of the Indian producers lack character. When "filmindia" praises a picture, which is a rare Dedicated to the Leaders9 Clarion Call of an impending famine hovering over India, NAYfl ART PICTURES' plide fxesenfali KULDEEP Carries n Message for Millions Vijay Mohni, Tasneem, Madan Puri, Sheikh and Bhudo Advani DIRECTED BY : N . VASWANI. ASSISTED BY: SWARN MALHOTRA & MOTI ADVANI, B.A. MUSIC BY: SUSANTO BANERJI. World Rights Controlled By. Gansham Dass, Esq., Proprietor Maya Art Pictures, 76, Medows Street, Fort, Bombay. Next Attraction Starring 'CAHCLV 12