FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

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*1949 FILM INDIA I: information? For public information we have enough Directors of Publicity. I write "filmindia" for the benefit 1,)/ my grocer. i KARl NAKARAN (Nadapuram) I^ho introduced the system of sending Christmas fcsew Year cards? Printers uho uanted business. Good wishes llo good business in this world of greed and hatred. ■ L THANVI (Jodhpur) lis director Shantaram an optimist or a pessimist? "The year 1949 belongs to V. Shantaram". Is I that an ar rogation of a pessimist? ■AN SIRAJ SOLANKI (Jodhpur) I What opinion do you hold about Marwaris? / like poor Marwaris and dislike the rich ones mbecause their hearts and hands are dirty. k\ KALI. A (Jodhpur) ■ How is -\eena getting along with W. Z. Ahmed in a -ta n ? She is fed up and fretting to return to India. MOOR SINGH KALRA (Calcutta) [What are the lea.-t monthly expenses required for Indian student in America? A hundred and fifty dollars a month. . . R \M VC.H \R (Waltair) [•Are you in favour of prohibiting cow slaughter in India? / would like to slaughter those cows that play the traffic policemen in busy streets. SUSHIL C. JAIN (Delhi) Why are drunkards generally disliked? They lose their sense of humour too soon. What is the best way to win an election? The next one will be won with millions shouting "Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai". What qualifications are required to become an ambassador? Let us first finish our stock of refugees from home before we think of training new ambassadors uho can rub shoulders uith their foreign rivals in the field of international politics. A. B. NATESAN (Chittoor) You praise and condemn women in the same breath. Aren't you a funny guy? It is a funny creature I have to describe. She is at once good and bad. Mr. Patel, can you please name your successor? Why are you so anxious for my exit? Are you, by any chance, thinking of producing pictures? A. B. MENDON (Bomhay) Is it true that the celebrated Raj Kapoor is of foreign descent? Yes ! He comes from Peshawar which is now in a foreign country. (jolden Opportunity 7ot Southern Undid 'Pi3tu(rutot5 A DREAM LINED ROMANCE Star Studded Cast :SURENDRA, MEENA, TRILOK KAPOOR, RANJIT KUMARI, BHUDO ADVANI, MAJNU, CUCKOO and Late CH ANDRAMOH AN Territorial Bights : — Bombay: M/s Maya Films, Bombay. Delhi, U.P. & East Punjab : M/s. Modern Cine Traders, Delhi. CP. & C I.: M/s Jai Film Distributors, Indore. Bengal : M/s New India Film Exchange, Calcutta. Western Pakistan: M/s Bharat Kalamandlr, Delhi. Enquiries invited for Southern India & OverseasContact: M/s HAYA riLM$, 51, Dubash Market, Shaikh Memon St., Bombay 2. 29