FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

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arch, 1949 FILMINDIA the sportsman-seth to pay off the overdue arrears of mus to poor workers. Taimur, the timid, managed to urt: "Eh salo kyanthi nikali padyo?" That Producer Kardar who once wanted to build a ardar palace in Bombay has now sold his land and :ople wonder whether the Kardar palace will ultimiitethrow its majestic shadow in the Garden of Allah. That Producer Fazli, who was the first to run away Pakistan, is now reported to have returned to India, iding perhaps too many forbidden fruits in th^ Garden Allah. We, however, welcome him back as this secu r country did belong to him before it was cut into bits. That what Gandhiji failed to achieve Vijoo Bhat ! s sworn to establish — a Ram Rajya — with Prem Adib , "Ram" and Shobhana as "Sita". When th? crowds :w our modern "Sita" on the race course on the Derby <y, they decided to leave Vijoo's "Ram Baan" alone. That while Director Vedi's marriage with Geeta '. zami is on the rocks these days, another Hinduuslim-director-star marriage is on the anvil — probably i Kolhapur. Let us wish the new aspirants better luck. That our film producers did not know of Gandhiji's (ath anniversary and announced their shows as usual Ir the day till a few stones on the cinemas reminded \im of our national tragedy. And they say film probers are educated. They couldn't even read the news] pers. That Sher-e-Kashmir Abdullah met film-actresses Uraj Sahani and Nalini Desai make a new team in "Gunjan" a social story of Nalini Films. Kashmir war could have been stopped earlier if these two had been put in command. Protima can surely handle a gun alright if she doesn't hit the wrong target. That the respectable women of Bombay are wild with the film producers for misrepresenting their race on the Indian screen. It wouldn't be a bad idea if the women marched in army formation and stopped a show or two. We guarantee that the Home Minister won't use his police stick. Tbnt the Bombay Censors are doing their job rather too well th^e davs. Thev are cutting out son"s from pictures and they themselves don't know why. And the producers insist on asking why. It is an impossible situation. That producers are rather u^haopv when a rival producer is called on to censor th°;r p-'r-tures r,u out songs shot twice. But vh»n Minister M«vr*»rii tb'"''s that eiorv one 5s as impartial and unprejudiced as himself, what can the producers do? That the review of "T?^m Rpan" was so e^e'ive that it took awav from "filr^-'r.n'ia" evn the machinery advprti'^rr">r>t 0f pv»rtrrr.»n Pictures who are n^rt^ers in "Ram Baan". But thgt doesn't wan tint SiTnlex has rpf^d to be a ^oorl proieet<-.r. Ar»™ t o"r nro^-ws great rha^nions of fr~" cneeeh ? Anrl at th°'r official meetings thev invite criticism of their pictures! Th^t actor Yannb. the SO thousand-run"^ .ctnr of the Tnd'in movies. ir»«'«N thoce rlavs upon tf>V'ne c"lochar>a Ghatteriee in all th° pictures in which he plavs. Producers wonder why and that too after 30 years experience in production. That it is not correct to assume that Producer Raj Kapoor has closed down his produ'-h'on hns'necc th^e davs hecaus° he doe«n't advertise. He ha« at last fo'-nd his Nimi after h"rnipp ^own a theatre in "Aag' "rid is these days sprinkling "Barsaat" on the little sapling. That the man in the new« the*e rlavs is Kichore Sahu, one of our very few reallv intelligent producers. He is reported to have sold three pictures lon°r before he himself knows what thev are r°ally about. But the distributors know and that is enough. Thnt another man in th» news is the mvst°rious Goverdhandas Agarwal of National Fducat''on*l Films. He threatens to educate th° whole nation with R*Me bits of film snd thus deprive the Gongress of its millions of blind followers in 7.00.000 villages. We have warned. That Producer Keshavlal Mody of "Khidki" fame is likely to be appointed as a super censor as he knows the ways of getting things done without much fuss. Why not start a censorship consultation practice? That the Ranjit "brain-trust" named a picture "Mitti-ke-khiloune" and in the ru=h of th? Derby preparations forarot to give us the "Khilovne" part of it and threw only "Mitti" in our eyes. That is not good sportsmanship for a Derby winner. 17