FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

1949 FILMINDI A me giving "private" shows to an invited audience ;r 1,000 persons? t will be a good idea to seize all the copies of a e once it is finally banned by the Government and 1 be a better idea if the exhibitor, who gives such iows loses his exhibition license for six months. sn't it a crime to show, even privately a picture lias been banned? We shall wait a while and see action the Government take against the exhibitor |he distributor who played "The Loves of Carmen" lie 10th of March. )IJL HARDLY BELIEVE — | That like other Congress ministers, Information |ter Diwakar also believes in keeping the journalists lg for an hour to prove how busy he is with affairs state. The journalists were impressed but they lecided not to respond to the next invitation of the Division. That Minister Diwakar was mighty satisfied with lewsreels produced by his Films Division, seeing |;lf in them in Assam and South India, and said jeople in Europe and America were clamouring idian newsreels. That is why we don't see them |dia. These greedy foreigners take all the prints. hat with our newsreels so popular in America, we ound to lose their producer, Badami, one of these -just as another Mysorian, Sabu, was lost to our ants. Now that Aly has taken Rita, Badami will to be satisfied with lesser picking when he goes That Balasaheb Kher, Bombay's Premier, stayed Warlis and Adivasis of Thana only as long as mi wanted him for a newsreel of the social visit, is the Warlis secure Badami's co-operation again, won't get the patronage of our Warli Premier in e. That Minister Morarji Desai stole the Premier's ler by walking six miles through pouring rain at Mahabaleshwar and depriving his poor "ehopdar" of two meals. Pity, Badami had no previous intimation! That Vithal Laxman, the poor 'ehopdar', who had all along expected Minister Morarji to invite him for lunch some day had a rude shock to see the Minister himself taking away a morsel from his mouth. That Minister Morarji Desai ate so much at Vithal's place — mango juice, vegetables, rice and what not— that he had to walk back six miles to digest the poor man's hospitality. That Minister Morarji's baldpated publicity officer told us about the Minister's raid on Vithal's hospitality but forgot to tell us how many meals Vithal and his family missed in feeding his minister. That with Minister Morarji Desai having finished his chopdar"s food and Premier Kher having swallowed the rations of the Warlis we have now finally established democracy in the Presidency with all the freedoms at our disposal. It is worth calling the other ministers for free food and doing the job thoroughly once for all. That if all the chopdars in the Secretariat call the ministers for a meal a day by turns, we won't have to pay anything to the ministers and their salaries can be paid to the chopdars instead. That the Municipal Bhangis on strike were refused audience by the Governor and the ministers. If they had only invited these ministers for lunch, every thing would have been settled quickly and satisfactorily. A lunch like this provides work both to the Bhangi and the Publicity Director. That Minister Morarji invited the exhibitors of Bombay and ordered them to stop blackmarketing in theatres within a month or he would requisition the theatres. After the meeting Bejon Bharucha is reported to have said: "Kewi gandi gheli wat kare chhe. Taadi pidhi hashe". That the theatres would have to be requisitioned in any case as also the audience with the entertainment tax Tinstone JBe&. CHAMPION TYIES 13