FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDIA Pongal, etc., once in a year. What does the rich man think about it? To the rich a festival is an opportunity to turn his money into crackers and disturb the neighbourhood. That is the only sound of money the poor hear. I am told that " Jugnu " has now been passed for exhibition by the Bombay Government. What are the reasons for lifting the ban? 2,500 feet of filth ivent out with the ban and the picture failed at the box-office. What is the motive in producing pictures like " Apna Desh", "Message of Mahatma Gandhi", etc.? One of the motives is cashing the people's patriotism. To learn more about the film industry is it not advisable that top ranking officials should go through "filmindia " every month? They do and they know more about our film industry than our producers do. For instance producers like Shantaram and C.handulal Shah never read " filmindia " — at least they never admit doing so. MAYA MUKERJEA (Delhi) Is there any film actress who thinks in pleasant terms of you? Baby Tabassum. She is in love with me. MISS AMMA CHATTER J EE (Bankura) Do old men sing? Yes, while bathing. Hot water makes them musical and hot words make them dance. What is a perfect family quarrel? When words fill the stomachs and meals go begging What alarms a husband most? A beautiful ivife and a handsome friend. C. K. AD V AMI (Bombay) Who rules the world: God or Satan? God rules it but Satan runs it. Differentiate a Congressite from a Socialist? One has the bone, the other is barking for it. Both have the same pedigree. D. NATARAJAN (Poona) Why is it called a 'spinster'? Because ' it ' missed the bus when the bones had good upholstery. IAGDISH KUMAR (Naini Tal) Should I bank on your intelligence? You spend on it and I'll do the banking. HIB \N SH Ml. AN I (Bombay) Is there any man who has mastered several tongues and has become a linguist? Bombay's Prime Minister, B. G. Kher, speaks fluently in many languages. And that is the man's trouble. IF hat he promises in one language, he tries to fulfil in another. 18 April, 1 ) H. S. VENKATA RAO (Mysore) Why is the Nizam non-violent now? He has been manicured. Why do our college youths like Hollywood pictui There is more to see in them — often a symph of love and legs. Indian legs are wrapped in ditional bandages. Why are sportsmen broadminded? Where did you get that? If you knew half things that pass off as " sportsmanship " you wc love to remain a grocer. | What is married happiness? A pre-marital ambition and post-marital i age. My father scolds my youngest brother often. ^ should he do. Ask your brother to use ear plugs. Tl which they give you on the aeroplane are very e, tive. I P. B. MADHAVA RAO (Masulipatam) What do you think of "culture"? / useful word these days to collect young £ and be friendly with them. OINKAR NATH (Simla) Why did Kamini Kaushal's husband allow he join the film industry? kamini is too smart and vivacious to be bu in a kitchen and be lost to the world. Her career was a wise decision of her husband. ISHWAR V. MAHBUBANI (Bombay) Can you give your impressions on marriage; U.S.A.? Honey, money and alimony. What, is your opinion, as an impartial critic, al an average free Indian? A somnambulist walking in the dark daui freedom groping for food. Do Indian actresses carry their babies with t when they go to the studios for work? They leave them behind in charge of their bands who make good baby sitters. If, according to you, beauty is an endless drear the blind, what is it to you? An evergreen provocation. Can a wife open her husband's letters? My wife does — over 16.000 every month. Coin, clothes and cosmetics — do they make a j man happy? They make her a coquette and a coquette n\ a court to be happy. R. C. GARGA (Meerut) Blush is characteristic of women, what is the cha teristic of men ? Bluff. GEORGE K. JOHN (Trivandrum) Between an ill-tempered woman and an angry tig whom do you fear more?