FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)
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FILMINDI A
May, 19
ration card, illiteracy will vanish as quickly as the morning dew. 350 million illiterates can be taught only by making every house a school and every literate man a teacher.
A. VISWANATHAN (Coonoor)
Why does not God appear before us when we pray to Him?
The illusion of His existence is the greatest glamour of God which His appearance in form will destroy and people will stop further prayers. And God is a great glutton for prayers. He wants them from saints and sinners alike. He is not like our Congress ministers — refusing revenue from drunkards, gamblers and sinners.
MRS. M. RUKMIINI (Anantapur)
My husband eats rose petals. What is the matter with him?
Must be a 12-spotted beetle. Use an insecticide.
Do you think Sushila Rani's romance would make a nice story for a good picture?
The hero would not be popular.
Is it a fact that Raj Kapoor is engaged?
Engaged? That boy can't be so steady. He has already two kids in the cradle.
What kind of a woman is a rarity?
Every woman is a rare piece. You can never find two of the same kind.
Does jealousy make a woman silly?
It makes her a devil and devils are not silly.
What is the advantage of taking loans from Kabuli money-lenders?
You can smell them from a distance and dodge in time.
What is the method to keep Nehru in good humour?
Nehru is essentially an aesthete and needs good company to be in good humour.
Is it not wrong to style Rajaji as "His Brahmanical
Majesty" as some papers are doing?
His name is Chakravarty and he rules over a bigger kingdom than Asoka.
Why is New York the dirtiest city?
New York is not but New Delhi is these days.
If heroes are allowed to select heroines, what will happen ?
We might have three heroines in one picture.
Why does Veera look like being in a trance always?
That long nose of hers gives her a sleepy look. But watch her on the race-course. She is all alert at her post collecting tips wholesale.
Should the heroine be always an extra at the start?
Oh no ! Those who jump into the eye at first sight jump to stardom straightway.
What is the talk of Bombay City now?
Minister Morarji Desai! He spices every meal and takes the spirit out of every glass.
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What would have happened if Ahmed Abbas h| been tall?
W e would have had a better loser and bet, sportsman. A little height gives you a better vi of life and things.
Gulab and Gohar were contemporaries durin^ i silent days. Now we see only one on the screen. °wl| happened to the other?
Gohar made a fortune in partnership w\ Lhandulal Shah and bought cars, palaces and ri horses and kicked off art and work. Gulab is st an artiste, working for a decent living and after ot 20 years of hard work she has now built a lit house at Khar. And that house is not mortgag\ What is the future of Khan Brothers?
Dead men have only a past. These brave b\ thers died on 15th August 1947.
What is the burning problem of the day?
To extinguish the fire in the burning pit of I stomach.
What does Zafrullah Khan mean by saying til Hyderabad situation continues to deteriorate?
He is right the way the old miser s gold is \ ing checked up and controlled these days.
AHMEDULLAH KHAN (Hyderabad Dn.)
What is disease?
Price of poverty and penalty of pleasured R. R. DAS (Thavaram)
I heard that there is no fresh milk supply in Bo]
bay's restaurants?
But there is plenty of it running over our nea papers since Babu Rajendra Prasad visited BombA
H. M. L. UBEROI (Naini Tal)
What does a blind man see in his dreams?
A blind man's world should be one long drek with no night and day, no rainbow of colours r\< any frustrations of greed and ambition. It is c\ long night to the onlooker but to the blind darkn f is eternal daylight.
VASANT S. OAK (Bombay)
Prem Adib is ugly, Al Nasir is colourless; then are you?
/ am not a film actor selling my face. Hon you like my pen?
MISS T. PAI (Bombay)
Recently I noticed that Veera has a pretty good-lo ing driver for her Citroen car. Do you think it necessi for a film star to have an aesthetic sense even in choice of a driver?
That is not her chauffeur. That is her husbcw Mohsin Abdulla. Veera has not arrived as a st yet to be able to employ a chauffeur.
Why are priests still flourishing when each one <h pray for himself ?
The first man who gave us God became^ priest and in doing so acquired invisible asm ivhich will pay him dividends through eternity]