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February, 1949
Pictures.
It is a game of vicarious sweating. The horses sweat and the princes get tired.
. S. RAMA RAO (Guntur)
Who is more talented: director Shantaram or ishore Sahu ?
Kishore Sahu is more versatile and enterprising. He is learning and improving every day. Shantaram has stopped learning. He wants to teach now but there is nothing he can teach after his recent pictures.
HAWANI SHANKER (New Delhi)
What do you think about Dalmia's peace prize?
Peace is not that cheap. How do you like the idea of women police and omen bus conductors?
Let me see some before I like them. Can't we manufacture raw films for movies in idia?
Manufacturing raw films in India is not an economic proposition unless as a bye-product of a large chemical plant. What is the best prayer to God?
Remember Him but ash him nothing. Immediately you ask Him for something, He gets frozen.
URESH CHANDER (New Delhi)
Do you live within your income?
/ guess I have to. I have no friends to help me.
Did your publication of the "tombstones of demoracy" bear any fruit?
FILM INDIA
No. The Bombay ministry seems to be scared of Manu, the magician.
Ars women ever sincere in their remarks about their husbands?
Yes, when such remarks are meant only for their own ears. Husbands acquire virtues when their wives have an audience of other women.
H. S. RAJA GOPAL RAO (Mysore)
What will be the fate of India if the present growth of population is not checked?
We shall have to build houses on the Himalayas
and become Eskimos of the East.
How often do you think it is necessary to shave in a month?
Gandhi ji used to shave every day. He was almost fanatically fastidious about this and I follow him at least in this respect.
JETH MALL JOSHI (Bikaner)
How is it that the marvellous novel of Sarat Chandra 'Shesh Prashna' has not been filmed yet?
There is nothing marvellous in this novel of Sarat Babu. The adventures of a Bohemian woman cannot make a good story for the screen.
MAHESH (Kanpur)
Whom do you regard as a greater politician — Chanakya of the past or Patel of the present?
Chanakya was a baby in comparison with the shrewd statesmen of Gujarat.
K. R. MAHADEVAPPA (Chickmagalur)
If there is no destruction in God's creation, what would happen to the world?
God would have to accept paying guests in heaven, the way we are multiplying, in twos, threes and fives.
A. B. RAGHAVAN (Trichinopoly)
Have you ever regretted being born a man?
Life is one long regret but in this world of men being a man is a lesser misfortune.
UDHAV M. DAG A (Bombay)
Why our film hero when he goes to the village well for drinking water, forgets to drink water and begins to look like a fool at the face of the village girl who gives him water?
His throat is not parched but his eyes are thirsty. In this he emulates his producer.
SHAIK MASTAN (Gurdlavalleru)
How long does a man love his wife after the marriage?
Love gets its lease from the woman's youth and wisdom.
RAYMOND MIRANDA (Mangalore)
Why is it that the length of the films are measured only in feet and not in miles?
Producers give us the films in feet but wc
see them in miles.
Why is it that when speeches are made ladies are first addressed and then the gentlemen?
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