FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

larch, 1949 FILMINDI A No. I consider it a waste of time to do some clumsy spinning in a machine age. It can, however, be practised as a hobby or be useful for political showmanship. ADANLAL SHAHU (Jodhpur) Why is your magazine limited to 76 pages only? Do you want 760 pages for two rupees? What is your dog's hobby? He likes the bony legs of my dhobie and sweeper. My Mod is a rare snob. . NAGESHA RAO MAN AY (Bangalore) Has anybody seen you in tears while seeing some ' the moving scenes in good pictures? Quite a few pictures have moved me. I am not as tough as my writings. My friend said that he was having a h&adache roughout his marriage ceremony. Why? Married life is one long migraine which only a funeral cures. What would happen if kisses were to leave scars? Lips would be fitted with rubber insulators. What is the record number of questions asked to pu by an individual? There is a guy called Narayan Rao ;n Mysore. He fires a thousand questions at me every month. Our leaders were soldiers in the battle for freedom hey say this very often). What are they now? They are still soldiers firing bullets now. S. N. MURTHY (Bangalore) Can a wife be a legal adviser to her husband? She is the law-maker not the adviser. What do you think is the length of Veera's nose? Veera has been ill recently and nowadays she looks all nose and no face. Which was your favourite rendezvous during your ay in America? The Roosevelt Hospital. D. AMEENUDDIN (Karachi) When does too much of realism spoil a picture? When Pakistan produces the story called "Ghaddar Nizam" as advertised in some papers from Pakistan. IMMAT SINGH BHATI (Jodhpur) What do you think of a millionaire wearing the andhi cap and khadi clothes? A salesman. HAQL'E (Ranchi) Is there anything more beautiful than tears? The yes that hold the tears. When a man is "moved by tears", he is really worried about the eyes that shed the tears. ISS K. KUMARI (Vizagapalam) Our leaders are getting degrees from our Universes very easily? And both (he degrees and the Universities are losing their importance. SANTOSH SALVE (Kanpur) Can we expect patriotic sons and daughters from our film actresses? There is a chance of getting some from those who playback for our stars those songs of patriotism we hear so often on the screen if some of those hot words light up a flame within the womb. N. R. KAMANI (Bombay) Had Gandhiji any personality? In his face was the hunger and anguish of millions. A man whose face reflected millions must be having a divine personality. K. N. RAO (Bombay) Can you suggest any way of treating an unfaithful wife? Divorce her and give her a chance to he faithful to the man she lilccs. That would be reclaiming one woman. MISS T. PAI (Bombay) How does Minister Morarji Desai g^t time to see eveii circus shows.'' Minister Morarji has already made a public confession aLout being a normal nan and not u sadhu. Normal people need relaxation after the day s work. I wish he would go to the races once in a while and prove that he is completely normal. How many years will it take for an Indian clerk to possess his own car like his brother in America? Our enterprise as a free nation has begun with a liability of feeding 370 million starving people. Let us feed them first before we send tlicm rushing aLout in cars. In America they bum food to keep the prices up. As 1 have Leen jilted very cruelly in love once 1 intend remaining a spinster. What is your advice? No man in the world is worth a life-time of spinsterhcod. One jilt cells for another, t'or^et the cad and marry some one who will help you to build your future. The first jilt is always a good jolt to wake up the fighting spirit in a woman. And when a woman fights back she ends by building a home. The jilts and jolts of life should piuli you forward and not pull you back. Tor, ahead, round the corner, is the proverbial life which the world is trying to live. I have an uncle of mine in Pakistan. Don't you think that the insurance companies should demand higher premiums from him? A Hindu in Pakistan can be insured only by Cod. Do you give lifts to people waiting in mib-long queues for buses which never come? My car has become a family bus with my wife's crowd taking every inch of space and I have to squeeze in somehow beside the chauffeur. What do you think of a woman at the age of 25 behaving like a child? 29