FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

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FILMINDIA Only if hearts would be lighter and cleaner at the end of them. Is Nargis the Norma Shearer of India? She is merely a shearer of producers. What will be the position of monkeys when Ram Rajya comes into existence? The monkeys have Ram Rajya already. They get more food than men do in this country. The other day Sir Shri Rain of Delhi, an industrial magnate working on the Food Committee, told me that India has 200 million monkeys as against 320 million human beings and that the monkeys were more healthy than the human beings because they get all the food they want, even if they hare to snatch it from us. Sir Shri Ram wants the monkeys to be shot. Isn't it strange that a man with his name is so dead set against the monkeys? K. S. PATIL (Wun, Berar) Isn't India a paradise of plenty? // is a bedlam of babies. KR. RAJENDRA SINGH (Agra) How can one distinguish a Parsi girl from an Anglo Indian one? One has a nose and pallor, the other has a face and colour. The Parsi girl usually has no legs while the Anglo Indian one has a pair of good ones. I). WILLIAM MOSES (Tanjore) You are one of the very few intellectuals in our country. Why can't you become a politician and serve the country? / want to remain an intellectual. V. KUMAR (Uchana, P.E.P.S U.) Is snoring an art? When it is practised in a crowded room to hypnotize others to sleep and to bring one's opportunity nearer. Watch a newly married man in a joint Hindu family and you will understand what I mean. S. \V. SIIIRODKAR (Bombay) Define a harmonious home? "Azad"! Only two chaps bark here — / and Mod. The rest listen. For harmony a home needs listeners. When does a husband of a film actress commit suicide? Never. It needs courage and character to commit suicide. Most husbands of film actresses believe only in pimping and profits. Docs religion count so much in marriage relations? // does if one is based on philosophy and the other on fanaticism. M. DEVARAJ (Mysore) Is it true that artistes are snobs? Not if you know them. Some of them however are too unintelligent to be social. MISS S. SARASWATI (Madras) Devdas Gandhi's hands ached every morning he December, 194 ) took up American papers to read. Did you also fee! that way when you were there? No. I am not jaundiced and anemic. M. N. ROY (Lucknow) If love is so heavenly why is it practised iiU camera ? Isn't heaven a difficult place to reach? /I takes the virtue of a life-time to reach its gates. A. V. NARASIMHAN (Hyderabad Dn.) It is said that you use the word T too often? / don't have to say the word, I look it ever1) inch. What is a hard currency area? The home of the mortgagee. Isn't Rajaji very far-sighted? Yes, but he sees only himself at the end of hi: far-sight. What is a striking beauty? Eyelids which lift reluctantly and drop quick ly. Few have survived the hit. M. JAYARAM (Mysore) How to serve India in the best possible manner? The present prescription is: dont smoke, don't drink, dont gamble, eat bananas, grow cabbages, wear khadi, pay taxes, garland the leaders, cultivate patience and vote Congress. The latest is "Miss i meal '. The last one will be: "Miss all the meals' Sbckhar plays tbe lead in "Ankhen", a social theme produced by Coel Cine Corporation. 30