FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

FILMINDIA December, 194! When the film hero arrogates the privileges of the trusting husband. Why is it that we are always quoting Gandhiji but never following him? Quoting Gandhiji is at least more honest than following him. In quoting there is no blackmarketing. What opinion do you hold about Shri Purshottam Tricumdas? An intelligent man in the wrong camp. What will the Congress be without Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel ? With them it is on the rocks already. Without them it will be a bedlam of boobies. MISS VINODINI J. CHAUDHARY (Bombay) What will be the fate of the Gandhi Fund? Ask Mahatma Gandhi. He can see more from the heaven than we can from the earth. Is Pakistan a poor state? That is the general delusion in India but the Pakistanis are beating us in every field except in speeches. In what respect are Americans superior to Indians? In hard work, imagination and enterprise. PROF. DEVKI N AND AN NASEH (Delhi) Why don't rich ladies blush when poor clerks stare them in the face? The rich blush when the richer stare and so do the poor when the poorer stare. But the first blushes in embarrassment while the latter in sympathy. K. KRISHNA (Bombay) How far is the Honourable B. G. Kher right in saying that Bombay is beautiful because of Parsis and Parsis alone? The Honourable gentleman has become old now and old men often flatter their audience with some harmless praise. MRS. SHEILA T. KRIPALANI (Simla Hills) Your "Warning to Don Juans" is obviously a warning to married-women-turned-heroines and their hubbies; yet so often you have recommended a film career to respectable girls and women? Yes, but I expect them to remain respectable and not rush into the arms of film heroes leaving their husbands in chilly and lonely beds. N. CANAPATI (Negapalam) Why are people so much interested in scandal ? Scandal has a spicy taste which sharpens the tongue. K. A. PATNA (Madras) Why was Pandit Nehru given such a terrific reception in America? Do the Americans love and respect Pandit Nehru so much? Americans love and respect none but themselves. It is the shadow of Stalin that has raised the stature of Nehru. Nehru has been a great man last 20 years but the Americans never invited him. Why have they suddenly fallen in love with him now? 34 K. T. RAMACHAR (Waltair) Who is the common man who often figures promi j nently in the speeches of our leaders? He is the blind idiot who is led to the polhll and asked to deposit his destiny into the ballot boxA Having done that he has to grope his way back alill on his own. What is the cure for provincialism in our country ?|j Scrapping provincial autonomy. A. BABU RAO (Secunderabad) What does the 15th August remind you of? Of six million refugees who paid the price oj\ freedom in blood and flesh of their dear ones. H. S. VENKATA RAO (Mysore) Are you afraid of man or God? Neither. Man is not worthy of my attention while God is all love. Do you believe in carrying tales? In telling them. Carrying is done by women. Are you an atheist ? / am not that intellectual as to deny Cod. What is hope? Hope is a bee that collects honey without a\ flower. S. D. REGE (Hyderabad Dn.) Do you think ballroom dancing fits in well with the present social structure? It doesn't but we have to find some idle men for the bubbling wives of our officers and administrators and give them a little synthetic thrill while' their husbands do late hours at their offices. Have you ever indulged in platonic love? Perish the thought! How can I be as intellectual as Plato to reach the ideal without the help of desire? What is your opinion of a man who has attained a good social position through the influence of his father-in-law? I would rather be a beggar! A beggar makes a poor son-in-law. What is\ wrong if the man who gives you his daughter gives you a push in life? Wouldn't you accept similar help from a friend? MISS CHANDER K. SYAL (Delhi) What will happen to 'filmindia' when you pass on to a better world Mr. Patel? I hope it won't stop publication. Have you a successor? Do live for another 60 years. You musn't let that guy Shaw beat you? // Bernard Shaw had brains he wouldn't have lived so long in such a wicked world. After I die, and may God oblige me early, there won't be any filmindia — not the one you are reading today. l\ have no successor except my little wife who will\\ probably be too stunned to write. But you have * always a chance to get a better magazine from some one else. K. NAZIRUDDIN (Hyderabad Dn.) Have you got the wisdom of Solomon? Yes. without his gold mines.