FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

April, 1949 FILMINDI A ire shown quite a few Razakars who vere taken prisoners. Most of them ire old men fit to be grandfathers of Casim Razvi. Imagine these old )eople looting trains, creating dis>rder and in short threatening to disurb the communal equilibrium of ndia ! " Was the Razakar organization made up of old men? Did our army made Hyderabad to fire shots in the lir? Our army's glorious march in to Hyderabad to end the reign of terror could have been filmed and kept as a record of national importance if the job has been entrusted to some one who knew how to click a camera. This film should be banned immediately if our Government has any sense of dignity and if it cares to protect the glorious tradition of the Indian Army." J . A. Fazlur Rahman. BANGALORE. LET US PRAY ! " I am one among those who gladly welcomed your review of " Ram Baan ", It was really interesting for me to go through your comments in detail and I cannot but congratulate you for your frank, fearless and humourous criticism which is fully justified. "It is hoped that such constructive criticism will be taken to heart in the quarters concerned and will ensure that the future pictures will be completely shorn of all imperfections." BOMBAY. P. V. N. Swamy. REMINDER FROM BEHIND ! " The proprietor of the Tower Talkies. Tanjore has constructed another theatre called i The -New Tower *" at a cost of approximately Rs. 3 lakhs. Though the cost seems to be rather high, the amenities provided therein are too poor. For example, the seven-anna-seats are so closely fixed that the knee of the man at the back kicks the back of the man in front/' V. Rajagopalan. -XEGAPATAM. WELL, MORARJIBHAI? " The other day I went to see " Nai Beet of India Film Corporation. Its advertisement cries thus: " Rights of women vindicated in India Film Corporation";; progressive picture ' Nai Reet '." But to my astonishment it turned out to be just the contrary. The " hero ' turns his faithful wife out of his home, with his parents looking on silently, only because she has got no modern education, and brings in her place another woman who can speak English. " This is absolutely ridiculous especially when the first wife is shown as an ideal one. Later both the couples are granted divorce, goodness knows how and why. And the man who is crazy about possessing an English-educated wife, once the wife of a principal, marries her asking his first wife to go away. This pattern of life is indeed strange to us. \S hat are the members of the Censor Board doing under the supervision of Shri Morarji Desai? Is it right that a woman should be turned out of her home only because she ^does not know English?" DELHI. Roshan Lall Bhatia. BfflER FOR STUDIOS U.R.414 SENIOR Equipped with Mole-Richardson Lighting units, your studio can depend on quality turnout every time you make a picture. Along side is M. R. 414 Senior Solar-spot 5000-Watt lamp, the largest in the Mole.Richsrdson series and is particularly adapted to back-lighting. Below is the Midget M-R 404, a small lamp with a definite place in the illumination system. M-R 21 is Single Side Lamp for soft, diffused lighting. Studio Cameras, Projectors, Developing and Printing machines and other studio accessories. GENERAL RADIO & APPLIANCES LTD., Motion Picture Snund Engineers 16, New Queens Read. BOMBAY. Tel ; 26204-5 (2 Lines). 10, Old Court House Street. 1/18, Mount Road, CALCUTTA. MADRAS Tel: (86719) Distributor* for East Punjab, U. P. 9 De/hi : UNION RADIO & APPLIANCES LTD. 72, Queensway, NEW DELHI (Tel : 8043) Distributed in Pakistan b\ i ELECTRO N CIS & FILM EQUIPMENTS LTD. Gulshan-E-Nasrat Bldg .. Victoria Road, Sadar, KARACHI (Tel : 7S65) The Mall. LAHORE (Tel: 2408) Strand Road. CHiTTAGONG (Tel: 108) 67