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Lugust, 1949
FILMINDlA
I is the happy village situation with even the horse smiling and happy from toomal", a Varuna social film featuring \argi>. Jairaj anil Badri Prasad and directed bv Ramchandra Thakur.
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JOB FOR MORARJIBHAl!
I fully agree with your suggesto the Government appearing the editorial for the month of ne to have a better check on the e of film booklets and the tax ing collected on the same. "But what about the cheap song oklets of almost all the leading ms being sold at the rate of one na per copy outside the theatres? iese booklets are published by some venturous publishers known as rzas, Sultans and Buranpurwalas m Falkland Road, Bhendi Bazar Charni Road, not only from mbay but by Mohmad Ismails Yusufs from Sholapur and ona as well.
'There can be no two opinions it these rag booklets are a disce to the film producers and their us in as much as they are not y unauthoritative but invariably ita.n a huge number of misprints i are usually covered with an obtionable block having no relation the particular film. These bookI; are sold in thousands all over Ilia day and night according to the I Jularity of songs in a film.
J'Due to the wide and illegitimate ■culation of such booklets, and at low price of one anna, both the ■•ducers and the Government are Ing deprived of their rightful indue for the last several years as
obviously no tax is paid or collected on these booklets.
"It is said that some of our producers desired to take legal steps against these unwarranted publications but so far they have failed to take any effective action against the Mirzas. Sultans. Yusufs, Mohmad Ismails and Buranpurwalas.
"Can t the Government do something to stop this racket which is losing them so much revenue?' BOMBAY. 4. R. K. Chinchlikar.
USUAL MONEY-MAKING GAME!
"Hankering, to see the typical Indian phase of life, goads me to the local cinema, where Indian films are projected. Almost a year has passed since I last saw a reasonable, good entertaining picture portraying a true-to-life story.
"It is simply surprising to note that an average Indian dialoguewriter forgets the fundamental basic factor which governs the utterances of various characters on the screen. In order to glorify the sequences the writer puts high idioms, punctuated with high-flown metaphors and similes, in the mouths of simple illiterate innocent characters. Thus, we find an average peasant girl, leading a rural life and unaware of the modern conventions of society, uneducated and thus ignorant of flashy eloquence, bursting into rhetorical outbursts loaded with literary gems. It sounds all unnatural and unconvincing. The sentiments of a peasant girl are simple and thus should be translated into simple language.
'Tn Hollywood pictures we do not find the utterances, of the ordinary class of people portrayed on the screen, loaded with philosophical sentiments symbolic of a novelist or a journalist. •
''Apart from this, whenever. I see educated artists like Prithviraj. Jairaj. Surendra and Ashok Kumar cast in cheap unconvincing stories, I marvel at the intellect of these
Bhagwan. our popular >.tunt hero, is between -Shyama and Gidnar in a romantic struggle in "Rooplekha", produced by Favourite Films.
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