FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDI A December, 19 In "Naach", a social story produced by Kuldip Pictures Ltd., Suraiya gives another pleasing portrayal as the heroine. Government. Quoting villagers and their needs, Vasan made a modest demand for at least 20,000 feet per film. That Baburao Patel showed a way out of the impasse by asking Vasan to produce a film in two parts of 11,000 feet each and get the parts censored as two different pictures and show both the parts at a single show, as there is no restriction yet on what and "how much to show people for their money. Thus Baburao Patel granted Vasan 2000 feet more than his demand. That was a useful lunch at "Azad". That Vijoo Bhatt whose "kindly light doesn't lead ' any more these days had to take "gentle" Jamsu and Chuni Lall to Madras to induce the South Indians to lift the ban on "Ram Baan". Now little Vijoo knows whose Ram Baan was more effective: his or Filmindia's. That if the Government of Madras banned "Ram Baan" because of Sita being pregnant before her time, how is that Minister Morarji Desai could not see her burden? Evidently, Morarjibhai's eyesight has become weak these days. Why not change the glasses? They have been used too long. That with Shobhana Samarth also playing the lead in Sohrab Modi's "Narsinh Avatar", Kayadhu, the wife of Hiranyakashyapu, also became pregnant, though her husband was away as long as 11000 and odd years. That is another 'Sati' defamed by our producers. That those film artistes who get inconveniently pregnant in the midst of the productions only to slander 14 our sacred deities must be put in a quarantine to pi| tect them from their hungry husbands. A bit of se denial is good for the artistes and the producers also. That the Bhatt Brothers — Vijoo and Shanker propose to table a resolution at the next meeting of t I.M.P.P.A. to stop female artistes from living with th< husbands whenever they play goddesses for the scre» But how to protect them from the producers a directors? That "gentle" Jamsu, president of the produce Association, will demand another "mandate" to enfoi "sanctions" on the husbands of the female stars to » pel them to Robinson Crusoe islands if they fiddled w: their wives during production. That if "gentle" Jamsu is granted this "mandaU the husbands of stars will have to lead a celibate 1 for ten years at least seeing that our film stars alwa work in five simultaneous pictures and in pictures afl pictures without even taking a Sunday off. At this ri we shall run short of stars as no new ones would i born. That there is no need of maintaining a Cens Board any more seeing that the troublesome pictui are shown these days directly to Minister Morarji Dei prior to their routine censorship. After Morarjibha private trial which censor has the guts to ask question That according to Minister Morarjibhafs unsa thoughts Censor Board chairman S. A. Aiyar knows r only English and Tamil but Hindustani, Marathi, Ur and Gujarati. But we insist on saying that he kno also Kanarese, Malayalam, Telugu, Punjabi, Assame Konkani and Pushtu. Aren't we blessed in having su a wonderful tongue-twister as a censor? That Mian Abdul Rashid Kardar celebrated t first Divali of his long production career by calling . Editor Patel and embracing him with a packet of swe meats. Mian Kardar has evidently been seeing photos of Maulana Azad embracing Sardar Vallabhb Patel. That while Mian Kardar's Divali went off well wi( Editor Patel, despite Filmindia's unsympathetic revii of "Dillagi", things did not improve between Mian Ki dar and his brother-in-law Mehboob. It was Hat Hussein's Liberty Cinema that took liberties with th< mutual affections. That this Liberty Cinema has badly shaken t j solidarity between several Muslim families who hi1 sworn themselves to the mo:to of "one for all and t for one" after the partition of the country. With t golden rainbow of the Liberty on the horizon the mot seems to have been changed to. "each one for hintst* and Allah for all". That the Liberty Cinema seems to have proved sun a tickler of tempers that Mian Kardar is reported , have even suspected Bhai Jan Mehboob's motives i saying his "namaz" five times a day. Poor Mehboo! he prays because he has no other friend in the wor except: "Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem. Al-hamdlillah-i-Rabbil Alameen. Ar-Rehman-ir-Raheem. Mali