FilmIndia (Feb-Dec 1949)

December, 1949 The queen and her courtiers in Pakistan! Here tliey are on the sets of "Dopatta'" produced by Film Asia. Loft to right: A. K. Lodhi. (^reeves. Nooi Jehan, Baker (Kodaks), S. H. Rizvi and S. Fazli. the song is lost. Our pictures contain only songs to be of any value and that little entertainment is also marred due to the bad manners of our people. "Say what is the remedy for this?'" BOMBAY. Udhav U. Daga. LETS HOPE! "Your editorial "A Warning to [ton Juans" is certainly an eyeIpener to our film stars and producers who are responsible for the ■ ruination of many happy home* [knowingly or un -knowingly. If our ifilm-stars read your editorial and understand the value and spirit of it. T hope such things will never occur airain." KHAROPUR. C. M. R.^ankarasastri. PITY, INDEED! I "Your pointed. candid and mought-provoking editorial "A Warting to Don Juans"' in October issue Bas come just in time and ought to ■erve as an eye-opener to many of |DUr Hindu film-actresses who. under file disguise of artistic expressions mil the lure of screen glamour, ulti ■lately fall easy victims to the templations of Muslim boys working in ihe films. Not a single day passes ■ithout hearing the public scandals, some of these film-actresses make of their private lives. It is a pity and ■lame that even the directors and producers encourage their illicit sex relationships instead of nipping them in the bud". ROM RAY. Manu G. Bhagat. MIT THEY PAY! "Your warning to 'Don Juans' • Editorial, October ''filmindia:') is undoubtedly a brave exposition of deplorable facts. Rut the trouble is that fools themselves cannot be expected to brood over their follies". DELHI. Omesh Chandra. MILLION* MAD! "I ha\e a brother who liecomes a Mr. Hyde' on the dav he receives 'filmindia'. He <:ets very excited, turns erazv and becomes normal only after he finishes reading the magazine. Surely you can suggest some sort of remedy for this madness!" Miss Soundrammal Doraiswami. TANJORE. LEARN? "Your editorial. "A Warning To Don Juans" is really an eye-opener to all the film-crazy men and women. No doubt it will serve as an effective antidote to all those young wives and girls who yearn day and night to join the films. And husbands should learn that money alone can never make a home sweeter." CUTTACK. Soorojit Mahapatre. SPITTING EVES "I hope that the filmindia would mobilise public opinion against the habit of spitting in the cinema theat FILMINDIA res, a dirty habit which some of our modern eves have adopted. Unfortunately the ladies class is on the first floor in all the cinema houses of Jodhpur. They spit from there and that too after chewing some betel. Once I was the target of this foul practice." JODHPUR. L. N. Vyas. SAME FACES! "Suraivi'-Nargis-Suraiya-Nargis, my god! What an eternal boredom one feels when only these two stars, God knows whether from hell or heaven, are shown in every film running in one's own town. It is in the very nature of man that he likes to se.> something new, something better everytime. This is more so in the ca.se of art, theatre and cinema. Rut when in one's town all the cinema houses show only two faces, that too with completely similar type of roles — one singing and dancing, the other weeping and crying all the time, one must be bored enough. Moreover the film industry is daily expanding, earning a lot, and has still vast scope for further development. There being no dearth of new and better talent, I shall request the industry to care more for th?ir fans in future for their own sake, and provide new faces." MEERIT. Prem Chandra Bansal. INDEED! "Recently, Mr. Patel. a free show of Thes' was given to the public at Delhi and a prize of Rs. 100 was offered for the best criticism (mind the word criticism) of the picture. Of course^ many went to the show and sent their review, but do you know which criticism got the prize? One that was not a criticism but all in all flattery of the picture and the director. Is it not purchasing journalism? Is it not a shame for a person to sell his pen for money? "And the«e are the same persons who call Raburao Patel. a black'nailer. What a pitv!" NAWALGARH. B. B. L. Kapoor, MONEY AND (.1 IMOUR! "Being an educated Hindu girl from the Punjab, has it been proper for Mrs. Pushpa Hans to portray tbe role of a treacherous sir! in Shantaram's film entitled "APNA DESH"? Rein a true Hindu girl she ought to have refused to act in such a role and at the same time, 67