FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

)ecember, 1949 FILMINDIA t. JAYALAKSHMI (Negapatam) Authors compare women's faces with the moon but | tot with the sun. Why? They want to stare at women without getting blind. What did Gandhi ji leave for his countrymen? The Congress octopus with its long-armed suckers. Who is the most honest and sincere minister in ndia now? Most of them are honest and sincere but few of them are competent and efficient. Why is Gohar still a 'iMiss'? Probably she waited in the queue too long. jj»IISS T. A. PIPARWALLA (Karachi) Who calls Xargis beautiful? Raj Kapoor does. W rite and ask him why. His address is College Street, Matunga, Bombay. HOHINDER SINGH KAINTH (New Delhi) Have you ever been to an inn? Once and I brought home a wife. The place is called the Wayside Inn. IAJENDRA (Delhi) Is politics really so easy a subject nowadays that ven a tonga driver can discuss it? He has a right to, seeing that his horse is taxed, his tonga is taxed, his stable is taxed and his own food, water and movements are taxed. A man who is taxed that nay has a right to yell. B. P. SHAH (Ahmedabad) Who is the best leader of India at the moment? Sardar Patel in the national field and Pandit Nehru in the international one. . G. CHANDRASEKAR (Begumpet) Which producer has great regard and reverence for ou? Mr. Himansu Rai. He is in the other world and that is where he cultivated his regard and reverence for me. T. K. FAZLUR RAHMAN (Bangalore) Who is more beautiful: Jayashree or Kamini? Jayashree! She is charming and good-natured in addition Which sm' do you follow, brother? Communism without Moscow is my philosophy. Socialism is my practice and Congressism is my politics. . R. MUNIPALLE (Poona) I think there is no love lost between you and lewan Sharar these days? Th re is a lot of love lost when ice meet but when we part we start searching for it. IRS. WILLIAM MOSES (Tanjore) What m I to do with people who fail to underiind the spirit of your criticism and writings? Poison them u ith datura. Are you strictly a one-woman man? Sate me a blush, madam. M. A. HAQUE (Chittagong) What future relations between India and Pakistan do you expect? Armed neutrality with disarming hypocrisy on both sides. A. BALAKRISHNAN (Manali) One often finds the nude figures — especially of the fair sex — dominating the studios of the modern painter and sculptor. What has the nude to do with art? Art reveals what is otherwise denied to the eye and the sculptor and the painter lend to the nude a morality in marble and colour — morality which flesh and blood evidently lack. MISS K. SRIVASTAV A ( Allahabad) Which pen and ink do you use in replying our questions? It is not merely a "pen-and-ink" matter. It is a "brain and think" business, my dear. M UDANLAL S. SOLANKI (Jodhpur) What makes you hungry? Time. It is a two-hour feeding schedule with me. What is Chandulal Shah's hobby? To have his finger in every pie. I want money. Mr. Patel! So do I and so does my neighbour. We all want money, son, because money is the honey of our existence. Would you prefer your sons to start from a scratch with no money as soon as their education is finished? They will have to because there isnt enoughmoney to give them a push. P. N. JOSHI (Rajkot) Is monogamy natural? Quite natural in bed. B. KISHEN R AO (Bolarum) Wherein lies the evil genius of Stalin? His genius lies in harnessing Communism for the happiness of his people. The evil part of it begins when he starts rushing others to do so. IS. S. S WANT (Bombay) How many types of moralists are there in our country? The genuine ones and the Congress ones. MAHBOOB ALI KIDWAI (Bara Banki, U. P.) Do you think the spate of Islamism will swoop away the fragile structure of the film industry in Pakistan? Islamism has swept off great empires in the past and there will be no Pakistan one day. leave alone its film industry, if the fanatics don't heed the warning of history. GOPAL CHANDRA BANERJEE (Barrackpore) Are quarrels worth picking? 29