FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDI A August, I'M P. KANAKA REDDY (Waltair) What do girls expect to find at church? In old times they used to meet their future husbands. Nowadays they find their present lovers. GULJAR SINGH (Singapore) How well will Sabu do on the Indian screen if he were to act in India? He might earn three rupees a day as an extra. S. D. DATAR (Sholapur) Have you ever seen a white Negro ? Quite a few! They only proved that blood had nothing to do with the colour of the skin. OMESH CHANDRA WHIG (New Delhi) Please give us a life-sketch of Morarji Desai? Born in Bulsar ivhen there were no lamp posts there. Stayed in G.T. Boarding in Bombay which had electric lights. Graduated from the Wilson College and took up Government service as a deputycollector. Morarji is reported to have been a quarrelsome, argumentative and roivdy young fellow, headstrong and obstinate like a mule. Under Gandhiji's influence he improved fast to become our Home Minister today but Morarji still lacks sense of humour. Is there nothing in common between Hinduism and Islam ? Only God and He is such a harmless fellow. J. LAL THANVI (Jodhpur) What is the food of love? It is cooked in the bed of harmony. K. G. MATHUR (Ghaziabad) Define a stone-hearted girl? Your rival's sweetheart! What do you think of bulky women wearing the Punjabi dress? Multi-coloured balloons. What is the difference between a Communist and a hungry man? The Communist is a hungry man who has had two good meals and is still hungry. What will love be like in the next century? // will be a rationed commodity with its germinal seed in state control. What was the effect of the comet on Sardar Chandulal Shah? He won the Derby and defeated the Congress candidate at a recent city election. Why don't some of our ministers step forward to marry a Harijan girl and give a practical example of Gandhiji's teachings? Aren't the Harijan girls already sufficiently depressed, suppressed and oppressed? Why punish these poor girls by throwing them into the dirty beds of politicians? Are thieves necessary in modern society? They help to balance our country's one-sided prosperity. 28 Who is a sadist among our popular ministers? Most of them seem to he sadists the way ti have deprived the people of the cup that cheerA Why are girl beggars increasing day by day?[ To, collect funds for the Socialists. Who is the next of kin of Nargis? She has a huge mother, two interfering broth with a dozen nephews and nieces not to mentioi score of moths who appear at dusk. And yet shi a very lonely damsel. Is it possible to avoid loneliness by going thro ii love letters? Love, letters, on the contrary, give an edgS loneliness and project the past on the horizoni the present. How is it that our national leaders are so perl in delivering speeches in public places? That is how they have hypnotized the nam with words that raise hopes which are never I filled. They ask us to eat words, wear words I live and die on words. Who is the real winner on the race course? The Government which makes profits uithn giving us a run for our money. Define good news? The defeat of a Congress candidate in the (I cutta elections recently. That defeat was the m beacon of democracy. MITTU ROW (Waltair) Would you take a hand if permitted to reorgaul the South Indian film industry? How ? That is improving only one man, Vasan, whm I can give a correspondence course ivhen necessM The South Indian film industry begins and ends hh one man and that is why it is hardly an indusm M. K. ADVANI (Bombay) What will be the fate of Madrasis after the recojfi tion of Hindi in Parliament? They ivill be cnce again rel"gated to their Jj position in Ram Rajya with a few An gads and Se rivs of Ramayan acting as representatives of a dm province. Compare "Apna Desh" with "Deccan Queen"? "Deccan Queen" never insulted the unfortum refugee women by branding them as traitors to tlu country. If the refugees had a backbone, "<4(M Desh" would not have been on the screen torn MISS T. PAI (Bombay) Is dignity inherent or assumed? Assumed dignity is affectation. What is the percentage of idiots to geniuses in M film industry? The idiots of the film industry are outside.* the streets, people who pay for idiotic pictures.m When do our nails remind you of claws?