FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILM INDIA The news in the dailies that the Prime Minister of India does not know his monthly salary provokes laughter. What do you say? It excites ridicule and proves the incompetency of the man to be at the head of a big country. But all that is perhaps a symptom of the typical Nehru aristocracy which looks with lofty contempt at money and other little things of life which the poor need for their daily hunger. Will there be an end to this world? Yes, when you and I die. I hope I am right in my conclusion about you that you take delight in the abuses of th? film producers? / make them pay for their odd luxury of abusing me and they pay well. Everything is expensive these days, including abuse. T. C. NARAYANAN (Rlangalore) Who is the second greatest egotist in India? / am the first. An egotist does not admit a second one. A. S. NAIDU (Eecunderabad) How is it that I don't find any advertisement of New Theatres pictures in "filmindia"? The New Theatres and their pictures are so well-known that they don't need to advertise in a magazine that cannot guarantee reciprocal service. S. A. PADM ANABHAN (Bangalore) Do you think twice before you reply? A hundred times, son, because with the words I sow I reap a living. BHAGWAT NIRMAL (Patna) Is there a limit to love? Life is the limit and Gandhiji reached the limit. Suggest some means to avoid sexual attraction? Drop your eyelids and close the windows through which temptation enters. RAHMETULLAH (Bombay) Do the Americans spit on the roads as we do here in India? No. They put some chewing gum into the mouth and with its help swallow the spittle. R. M. ARTAGNAN (Ernakulam) How is the greatness of people measured? Nowadays by the length of the columns newspapers give for their obituaries. Newspapers are a bit generous in our new-found freedom. They find greatness in almost every corpse these days. N. V. R. SWAMY (Ncgapatam) Fifty years hence suppose a teacher asks a boy, "Who was Gandhiji", what reply do you expect him to give? India's greatest revolutionary. He prepared Indians for freedom but they mistook it for license, lie died three years before he was actually killed and his followers buried his memory in temples and chanted his name only when in political distress. They murdered even his memory. 32 March, l! NIRMAL (Rcwa) How is it that Nehru is admired more abroad 1 at home? IF here did you get that notion? Nehru is\ idol of millions in India but there are mill overseas who do not even know him. I have veiled far and wide and I should know this b\ than others. S. REHMAN (Bombay) What pleasure does Chandulal Shah get in hi racing? The pleasure of profits! Chandulal's w. life has been one long race for profits. J. M. PUROIIIT (Bombay) What is the difference between a white khaddar and a red cap? The white khaddar cap because of its inhe non-violence, often gets dyed in its own blood. S. VENKATACHARI (Madras) If China falls a prey to the Communists will other Asian countries be affected, particularly Indi The speed at which the Chinese Commui are travelling at present, it won't be long be they shake hands with Stalin across India. VIJAI KUMARI (Kotah) What is the tempting bait to attract educated { to films? Money and glamour attract all girls — educ or not. Art is, of course, the subsequent apol MISS MOHINI C. NAWANI (New Delhi) When people abuse you, I don't listen or repl them as I know, 'silence is the best reply to fools'. Abuse is a compliment in which words misused. People don't abuse all and sundry. R. C. WHIG (Delhi) Should one marry without a bank balance? Never. It is a double suicide. L. C. KUMBHAT (Jodhpur) Have you any ability in song writing? / wrote a few which Pandit Indra claimet his own. So I stopped. Should a blind man marry? Every man who marries is blind. Faith in wife robs him of his eyesight. In marriage a b man hasn't therefore a greater disadvantage . the one with eyes. Are you an orator? Only when in a temper. Otherwise I d think it is worth wasting words. S. K. RAHMATULLA (Cuddapah) Can there be a girl in the film field loyal to legal husband? Recently I saw some photographs of ma. kissing published in a film mag. Isn't that a p of loyalty? It is a pity, however, that film I have to submit such printed evidence of t virtues.