FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDI A tarda makes an attractive addition in "Ma-ka-dil", a social story of Popular Indian Productions. rs travel and make some news for our national news:els? Pandit Jawaharlal's departure for the first Do:inion Premiers' Conference is still to be seen on the ;reen — then in what year shall we see hi* departure for ie second one? What type of news is the Ministry of Information aiting for? We had the Socialist Purshottam Tricumas beating the Congressman Mhasker by a street in a i.ty bye-election recently. Isn't that news? We saw the >cal ministers shouting themselves hoarse and repeating lie old promises to maintain Congress prestige in this iye-election. Isn't that news? We have sent a military liission of overgrown school boys to I .S.A. to get a lang of the international armament race. Isn't it news > see our school boys do something in a couple of monis which the grey-haired Americans have been thinking bout for twenty years? Premier B. G. Kher struck a note of harmony with ie Gaekwar by wearing the sherwani and the tight trou;rs to receive the salute of the old surrendering army f Baroda. Isn't that news to see the gentle old Kher i a royal and martial dress? S. K. Patil, who resigned rom a dozen posts to become the Mayor of Bombay, has een getting four receptions a day leaving him no time ) do the Mayor's work. Isn't that unique popularity )me news? Home Minister Morarji Desai has not ttended a single wedding ceremony for two months and rought home no garlands. Isn't that news of our most opular minister whose face is as much a feature of ur daily newspaper as the paper itself? Isn't it news ) search for the lamp post under which Minister Morarji eveloped his peculiar vision with which he is ruling the province so well these days? Didn't we hear even Dr. M. D. D. D. D. Gilder, M.D. (are the D's too many?) speak in support of the new Congress doctor, Mhasker, and when Dr. D.D. did it from behind his big moustache, a little one in the crowds said "It speaks, mummy!" Isn't that news big enough seeing that a very strong and silent man spoke the first time and on such a healthy subject as a bye-election? Amritlal Seth, the famous Congress journalist, who once threatened to build a special town in Gandhiji's memory, is involved in some unusual case which reminded the Magistrate of Oscar Wilde. Isn't that news seeing that no one else but Amritlal had presented the very sword with which Samalkhan Gandhi, Commander-inchief of the Gujarat guerrillas, conquered Junagadh? And Shamsher Jung Samalkhan Gandhi, a nephew of the prophet of non-violence, conquering Junagadh with a naked sword in his left hand — isn't that news too? H. P. Mody squeezing himself into a "chooridar pyjama" to raise himself to the decorative pedestal of a provincial governor — isn't that news? Dr. John Mathai s visit to the Mint in Bombay to see how money is made — a knowledge he should have acquired before becoming our Finance Member — isn't that news? Film actress Suraiya hiring a royal saloon for a holiday de luxe and throwing food waggons off the rails with millions starving— isn't that news? What more news does this fellow Badami want to go and shoot? Is he waiting for another Gandhiji to die to get some funeral shots? If he is waiting for that. ANSCO BLOWUPS from KOT ACHROME 16mm We enlarge 16mm Kodachrome to 35mm Ansco MASTER or RELEASE prints. ...you can use these to release your pictures in theatre entertainment markets in major cities.... GENERAL RADIO & APPLIANCES LTD., If, New Queen's Road, BOMBAY Tel : 26204— S (2 lines). 10, Old Court House Street, CALCUTTA 1/18, Mount Road, MADRAS (Tel: 84719) Distributor, for ihe East Punjab, V.P. c? DeISi : UNION RADIO & APPLIANCES LTD.. 72, Queensway, NEW DELHI (Tel. 8042) Distributed in Pakistan by : ELECTRONICS & FILM EQUIPMENTS LTD., Gulshan-f -Nasrat Bldg., Victoria Road, Saddar, KARACHI (Tel: 7S6S) The Ma'l, LAHORE (Tel: 2108) Strand Road, CHITTAGONG (Tel: 108) II