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FILM INDIA
and insipid backed by a commentary fit to be understood only by Pandits and not by any other person who claims to understand Hindustani. As it is we get fed up of seeing so many senseless pictures.
V. K. Fazlur Rahman. BANGALORE.
I NEED SYMPATHY
" After seeing the filthy stuff called " Ram Baan " I had nothing but sympathetic appreciation of your capacity for sitting through such a rotten film to the end and also looking through Monier's and Valmiki's RAMAYANA and writing such well informed and thoroughly irrefutable criticism of the film.
" If this has deprived you of Sim plex advertisement as you say in youi March issue it speaks volumes foi the producer's mentality and the effectiveness of your piercing criticism. So long as producers or distributors exhibit such tender skin and touchiness to your criticisms there is still hope. Though it is indeed a pity that after your crusade for so many years against worthless films made by money hungry magnates, still there is no appreciable improvement in the quality of film producers and consequently in their films, yet it is a hopeful pointer that producers attach so much importance to your criticism and cower before it. I said I had sympathetic appreciation for your efforts.
" I have told you why 1 appreciate. The sympathy is due to your having to see such rotten films day in and day out and spend your time in writing reviews on them."
NEW DELHI. K. Lai.
OUR SHAME OVERSEAS
"Unfortunately for most of us overseas your reviews of some pictures reach us long after these pictures have been released for general screening here. The picture " Jugnu " was given a tremendous amount of publicity here before it was released. It was shown simultaneously in two leading theatres for about two weeks to packed houses. W hen I saw it I did not like it in the least but I could not voice my opinion as I did not feel sure. \\ hen I saw your review 1 was very glad to note that you had the same objections as I had regarding thin piclura.
" The natives of this place, the Malays, are very fond of Hindustani pictures. Very often one finds that the audience in a theatre is 60 % non-Indians. If such pictures are shown to these people they will have a very poor opinion of our colleges and educational institutions. I earnestly hope that you will succeed in getting the pictures censored before they are sent overseas. These pictures do a lot of harm to us by slandering our college life at home." SINGAPORE. Seva Singh.
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April, 194
NAGPUR NUISANCE !
" Practically in each and ev cinema theatre of the Nagpur C except the newly overhauled Bha Cinema, not a single news reel p duced by our newly constituted Fi Division is shown before the col mencement of a show. Exactly It the scheduled time, the cinemas st : rolling out the main feature whfc a good crowd of 3rd and 2nd cl.i audience is still struggling J tickets.
" It may here be suggested tit if the practice of exhibiting neii
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