FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)
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PILHINDIA
April, 1941
without showing the common decency of mentioning the Congress throughout his picture though the story was based on the Medical Mission sent to China by the Indian National Congress. When the Congress achieved freedom and came into power and Shantaram took his " Dr. Kotnis " to America, he added a title to the picture acknowledging the Congress. It is such men that give our national dress a bad smell. And yet, Shantaram is Minister Morurji's pet citizen and censor. I don't believe in these, weather-cock tactics of ceremonial costumes in the presence of political leaders. If Shantaram would imbibe even a fraction of Morarji s honesty, sincerity and patriotism, we would have a better citizen than a producer. If he has learnt something from Minister Morarji so far, he should give an apology to our nation for disowning the Congress in " Dr. Kotnis". But an apology needs manhood, humility and greatness, which qualities can only be proved by actually giving an apology and not by silence.
KEDAR MANDIRA (Dehra Dun)
Have you ever wept in loneliness?
Men always weep in solitude as their tears move none. Women need a gallery for their tears which are called pearls by mad poets.
M. MOHSIN (Lucknow)
Does a man really fall in love?
Only in love stories and poems.
K. SHAKUNTALA (Mysore)
If Pandit Nehru is the heart and soul of India today, then what is Vallahhbhai Patel? Brain and brawn. Why did God create flowers?
To give the world His definition of gentle beauty and polite fragrance.
Most of the world's beautiful faces have empty heads. Why?
// every flower had fragrance, the world would have become a great garden.
BISMIL PATHAN (Ahmedabad)
Have you ever known a producer getting nightmares after reading the review of his own picture in " filmindia "'?
One must at least sleep to get a nightmare. Our producers hardly sleep during the night. Where is Russia?
All over the world, in prison and underground, entrenched in hungry stomachs und fanatic minds.
MISS VEEN A RAM HOSE (Hardwar)
What is the address of Nargis?
Chateau Marine, Marine Drive, Bombay.
S. KRISHNAKANT (Bombay)
Do you think that the Kashmiri Muslims will vote
for India?
That is my prayer.
MADHUKANT R. DESAI (Bombay)
You criticise rotten Indian films but how do you
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account for the bad stuff we are getting these davs fro M.G.M.?
Who told you that M.G.M. always produc. good pictures? For one good picture M.G.M. us ally gives fifty rotten ones.
H. S. RAJACOPAL RAO (Madras)
Man worries even if he has everything he needs 1 keep him from worry. Why?
Worry is a creature of the mind that lives o imagination. And there is no why about the huma mind.
DESH BHUSHAN JAIN (Delhi)
Can you say something about astrology?
The art of looking at stars in heaven and di{ ging some gold from the earth.
What does romance mean to a widow?
Spring after a spell of winter.
P. C. SIDDALINGA RAO (Bangalore)
Are vou in favour of offering animal sacrifice t God?
U ith a tax on chicken and mutton, all the bird and animals I can get I offer to myself and leal only flowers for God.
W hat is the difference between a king and a peasar in the grave where both are reduced to the same dust
A king rises from his grave and enters the book of history. The peasant merely throws some mor dust into the womb of Mother Earth. (
Mrs. SHAKUNTALA K. DESAI (Bombay)
Why is it a fashion in clubs and drawing roomt these days to discuss politics, English pictures, G.B.S and Baburao Patel of " filmindia "?
What an odd menu for an appetizer! Is the Bombay Ministry composed of Morarji am, Kher only?
They are the most photogenic and also th> most talkative.
MOHD. ANWER BAIG (Karachi)
Do you think that bulging eyes and too prominent teeth like Suraiya's spoil an artistes beauty?
But one needs some basic beauty to be at al spoiled by other features.
D. N. VISHWESWARIAH (Bangalore)
Is India a " spiritual country "?
Very much so, with one child in every five be coming a spirit before its first birth anniversary. \V hat is prohibition ?
A grand funeral of the teetotallers with drun kards as pall bearers.
S. S. RANE (Bombay)
Do you think that the present rationing quota ol cloth is sufficient for every adult? Tell me what can ut do with ten yards?
You can cover three dead bodies u ith it.
K. G. MATHUR (Ghaziabad)
I loved, laboured and now lost. What should I do now?