FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

I" ■ M. MARGABANDL (Madras) When does a wife wish to die long after the death her husband? 1949 W hen she has youth and he has money to leave behind. ry. MCSHMI KANHAIYALAL TANDON (Shahjahanpur) Do the people of India deserve the Congress governent? Our people didnt bargain for what they are getting now. They have been stabbed in the back by a power-crazy clique. If the idiots elect the same people again then they will richly deserve their future. f MOOR J AM (Poona) Of the following what are you: a Socialist, a Comnist or a Congressman ? / am a Congressman who likes Socialists often and admires Communists, sometimes. K. BHIDE (Bombay) Inside the film studios are there anv cases of rob1& A few winks and smiles at the most. But no one bothers about this junk. What is the difference between a professor and a m director? A professor opens old tins, the director fills up new ones. SHEIKH MOIDEEN (\\ adakkanchery) Can a wife search her husband's pockets? One who does it is not nor thy of being a good mans wife. A. DIKSHIT (Balrampur) Why didn't India join the Atlantic Pact? India has neither food nor money nor arms. The only way India can join any pact is with the photographs of her present leaders and stories about her past glories. It is difficult to win an Atomic war with that stuff. P. A. SUMUKHAN (Quilon) Why can't you reduce the price of "filmindia"? And live on the mercy of film producers? AN \ ATH CHIBER (Delhi) Why are the people of India nowadays tired of our ime Minister's speeches? He sings the same lullaby forgetting that starving stomachs dont sleep with songs. If you happen to address a session of the U.N.O., n what would you tell the members? / would ask the members to go back home and grow cabbages in their backyard. That would be something useful at least for the dining table. V. PRAHLAD (Seounderabad) Why is it that so many qualifications are needed to come a clerk while nothing is needed to become a nister? The clerks make the ministers look clever and intelligent. We must therefore have well-qualified clerks. What would Gandhiji have done if he had lived other 15 years? FILMINDIA tie would have committed suicide by fasting unto death. V. S. KAMATH (Bombay) To which political party do you belong? / am nowadays a disgusted member of the Congress. T. N. SARKAR (New Delhi) W henever I catch the sight of any pretty dame, I get good feelings within me and I think it is love. What should I do? The same thing used to happen to me till one day the dame turned round and married me. And now all dames pass without raising even my eyebrow. I MESH C. AGARWAL (Lucknow) W hat is the significance of tree planting by our socalled popular ministers? They must do something besides tall talking. They probably want to turn the state into one big jungle. Rs. 500 in 25 PRIZES EVERY MONTH. The following prizes are awarded every month for questions which are considered interesting or elicit interesting replies in the "Editor's Mail". 1st Prize: Rs. lOOj-; 2nd Prize. Rs. 80|-; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50j-; 4th Prize: Rs. 40|-; 5th Prize: Rs. 30: and 20 consolation Prizes of Rs. I0r each. A reader can ask as many questions as he likes. Questions should be neatly written or typed if possible. Unless the letters are signed, they won't be considered. In awarding prizes the Editor's decision shall be final and absolutely binding and no correspondence will be entertained. The names ol the prize-winners will be announced in "filmindia" every month and the prize money will be remitted by Money Order. PRIZE WINNERS FOR JULY. 1st Prize: Rs. lOOj to Jayant Kr. Mohapatro i.Patna); 2nd Prize: Rs. 80| to Bismi! Pathan (Ahmedabadi; 3rd Prize: Rs. 50 to Jagdish Prasad Jain (Hapur); 4th Prize: Rs. 40j to P. M. Shah { Ahmedabadi ; 5th Prize: Rs. 30| to Kumari P. M. Bailey (Meerut) and 20 consolation prizes of Rs. 10| each to the following: — H. V. Narayan (Anantapur) ; Aftab Ahmed (Lucknow); K. G. Mathur (Gha/iahad); C. D. Merchant (Bombay); R. Parkash Gupta (Delhi); Miss Sakina B.A. kayum (Calcutta) ; Gunvantrai B. Desai (Navsari) ; A. M. K. Sundaram (Madras) ; Harihar Shaw ( Dumka l ; D. A. Padmanabhan (Coimbatore) ; Miss Sundari Reddy ^Kurnool); Chand Behari Lai (Delhi); Santo H. Ajwani (Calcutta); V. V. Krishnarao (Dharwar); P. P. Dambal (Bombay); A. S. .\aidu I Secunderabad Dn.) ; S. K. Chopra (New Delhi) ; Gurudev Singh (Patiala) ; D. N. Visweswariah (Bangalore) and IS. Rajagopal (Mysore). Money Orders are being sent to all the prize winners. 35