FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

I OQ5 ( This is the reader's forum — as and when space permits. From the producer to the lay film-goer, every one can write to the Editor and ventilate his grievance. For every letter published in these columns, the publishers will pay Rs. SiLetters should be signed and marked " Woes And Echoes". Photographs of the readers will be published along with their letters, if convenient. — The Editor.) EXPLANATION "We have gone through the comns of "Woes & Echoes" of your ecember '48 issue and are really frr.y for the misrepresentation which r. S.M. Pandit does under the jading "Surprise". "As a matter of fact, the Burma iard of film Censors had passed eir orders to delete the said line om the picture "Sajan"", and to our lowledge. no exhibitor or the distriltor can do anything against such ders. Your said writer Air. Pandit is therefore wrongly said that we .d compromised with the Paigam •ess and allowed the said line to deleted." Kapurchand (Burma) Ltd. WGOO.N. OLD MAN'S PET! "Recently I went to see director jhrab Modi's "Mera Munna", aturing Motilal and Nayantara. To t a long story short, the picture is ore worthless than its title. The cture is nothing but an ugly mbination of a few snaps taken up random. My sincere piece of advice r our director Modi Saheb would to quit the film world while the ing is good." JCKNOW. Puran Chandra Pande. ALRIGHT, BE LAZY ! "You are perfectly right in crltising the Bengalees — "They eat too uch, sleep too long, work too little d talk too much". But do they t think too much? "You have called the Bengalees as lenterprising thinkers. It is entirea wrong and prejudiced concepJn. In the struggle of freedom for dia. Bengal's contribution is unique id unparalleled. Bengal has proiced luminaries of greatest thinks for all ages and she is not barren t. "The pioneers in the realm of oughts and ideas are naturally lazy the matters of the world Santosh Kumar Mukerji. LLAHABAD. TO WAKE LP THE SLFEP1NG! r , "This is with reference to the lestion of Mr. Krishna Gopal Chat terjee of Dhanbad and your answer published in the January issue of "filmindia". "At the very outset I challenge the statement of Mr. Chatterjee. If 90^ of the Bengalees were clerks then, probably, not a single non-Bengali would have been employed as a clerk in any office in India. The question as it is, with due respect to Mr. Chatterjee, is a silly one and it has pro\oked all the more a silly reply. "For you Mr. Patel. I respect you much and as such I have been shocked bv vour statement. Can von Thai costume is a cross between the Burmese and the Ceylonese one and Suraiya looks rather attractive in it in "Char Din" produced and directed by M. Sadiq. justify yourself when you attacn the stigma to the Bengalee race that they are lazy and unenterprising? Your answer has an 'informative" strain and that's where I object. The information is a misleading one. History even staggers to make the statement that you have flung at us as a race. "I don't think you are as ignorant i bout Bengalees as you: answer shows. But if you are you can enquire from any true Bengali regarding his race. He would be too glad to let you know the amazing enterprising capacities the Bengalees are capable of and the outcome of the same. And most probably you know why they had been the step-children of the British. "If your I. Q. is recorded, you might be declared a genius. That is precisely the reason, which makes one think, as to how you could be provoked to give such an incorrect reply." LUCKNOW. B. K. Ghosh. IMPROVING CHANDLLAL? "In your January issue it is reported that Sardar Chandulal Shah stated at the recent meeting at Kanjit Studios that he and his other producer colleagues were neither yogis or sadhus nor men of high ideals and principles, and that they like to enjoy life and needed colour for it. "Well, we do not expect our clever producers to be yogis or sadhus, but we certainly expect them to be men of ideals and principles, or otherwise how do they claim to be capable of producing sensible pictures? Is not the Sardar aware that these pictures are made not for the producer folk alone to see, but for the common man who likes to have some good, and at the same time not vulgar, entertainment in return for his hard earned money? It would also have been better if the Sardar had explained in what sense the words "enjoy life"' and "colour"' were used by him. "\ou were very correct when you said that it would have been much better if the Sardar had written his speech and read it. At least let him 69