FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDIA May, 194 A. PUSHPAVATI (Hyderabad Dn.) Can I be your paying guest for a few days please? Good Hindus have not started taking paying guests yet. Hospitality is a religion with the Hindus and one cant cash on religion. UMESH AGARWAL (Lucknow) I wish you were the Home Minister of Bombay. How do you like the idea? / dont like it. I like to see Minister Morarji in the post. He is doing very ivell and we are paying him very little for all the work he does. BIKRAM SINGH (Dehra Dun) Are you a friend of the princes or the paupers? / dislike both as members of the same lazy family. I like u orkers — rich and poor. Could you candidly say, Mr. Patel, of all the New Year greetings you received from Indian producers, how many struck you as genuine? No one in the film industry sends me greetings. But my readers wish me a happy New Year every day and I actually feel happy after the wishes. What's your prophesy about the Kashmir issue after the cease fire? It is snowing in Kashmir. You must give the gun ponder some time to dry. D. S ATY AN AR AY AN A RAO (Anantapur) "Criticism is the art of the devil". Do you accept it? No ! The executioner in jail who hangs criminals is not called a murderer. Then why should a critic u ho does his duty conscientiously be called a devil? GURSHARN SINGH (Nabha) What is a smile to a politician? A short punctuation to his dirty designs. SHALIMA (Mercara) Is divorce a disease in America? They use it as a cure for marriage. ARVIND DEVI DAS (Bombay) Is Dinkerrao Desai brother of Morarji Desai? Only a professional brother ! Both are politicians. MRS. ARUNDHATI (Belgaum) Are you also one of those men who stare at girls and women in the streets? / like to look at beautiful women. I have no time to stare and embarrass them. Can you tell me when our ministers will stop lecturing and laying foundation stones? Stop crouding round them and they will return to their desks, sadder but wiser. K. G. MATHUR (Ghaziabad) How to get rid of Kamini Kaushal from my dream? Ask for her husband's photograph and keep it near your bed. 28 A. RAGHAVAN (Anantapur) If Santoshi and Kedar Sharma were to direct a pic ture jointly what can we expect? An Indian version of the Parisian Folies-Be gere. What is yellow journalism? Journalism discovered by jaundiced eyes. What is the age of "Baby" Nurjehan? She is three babies old. J. PATEL (Sambalpur) How far is humour indispensable to life? Selling it is indispensable to mine. Why do our universities betray an overpowerin passion for distributing doctorates to the leaders? They are probably finishing their stock of o junk before they begin with a new series in fre India. P. M. RAUKA (Ajmer) Why does Chandulal Shah want colour in his oh age? To give his grey hair a box-office look. MISS MOHIN1 G. A. (Bombay) Do you favour nudist colonies near Juhu beach? Juhu is already crowded. Let us not add Uv the crowds. G. SAMSON TATA (Bombay) Now that V. Shantaram, brother of V. Kashinatl in turn brother of V. Avadhoot, is on the Censor Boar would you dare any picture of your own? / wont and that is why many producers see to have become grocers again. MARRIS NELSON (Agra) In what thing India leads the world? Growing babies ! SUDARSHAN D. GUPTE (New Delbi) Have you any English friend? Hundreds ! But as friends they cease to havl a specific nationality. R. KRISHNA (Bombay) Do you approve of the rebuilding of the Somnall Temple with such huge funds when at present there art already innumerable temples in India and thousands 0 Gods? Ours is a peculiarly "secular" State in whid\ the State looks after mosques, temples and chur\ ches; all new public projects are inaugurated wit) Hindu religious ceremonies and ministers are gar landed as little gods of freedom. In rebuilding Somnath, Vallabhbhai Patel probably wants to pa) back the Moghal invaders for their repeated am. vindictive vandalism of the ancient temple. At thu rate, the mosque which Aurangzeb built on the sitt of the ancient temple of Vishwanalh in Benares wilt have to be shifted to rebuild the ancient Hindi glory. JOSE P. THEKINIATII (Trichur) Do you publish your magazine for gain or foi