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Musing 1500. Indian-Talkie-Silver-Jubilee-Souvenir-1931-1956
Musing 1499. Star Gallery (3 of 4). N 828
Musing 1498. Star Gallery (2 of 4). N 827
Musing 1497. Star Gallery (1 of 4). N 826
Musing 1496. Sulochana Filmography. N 825
Musing 1495. Sulochana Latkar (1928-2023). N 824
Musing 1494. Playback, who was first? The Conclusion. N 823
Musing 1493. Playback, who was first? N 822
Musing 1492. Playback, who was first? N 821
Musing 1491. Playback, who was first? N 820
Musing 1490. Playback, who was first? N 819
Musing 1489. Playback, who was first?
Musing 1488. Hollywood of India. N 817.
Musing 1487. Ray and Silent Films. N 816
Musing 1486. Pather Panchali in Time 1958. N 815
Musing 1485. Madhubala in Time Magazine. N 814
Musing 1483. Edwina 115. N 812.
Musing 1482. Electricians! N 811
Musing 1480. Tom Cruise at the Airport. N 809
Musing 1479. Master Sachin. N 808
Musing 1478. Thakur Jarnail Singh (1966). N 807
Musing 1476. Lal Chand Mehra again. N 805
Musing 1475. Lal Chand Mehra. N 804
Musing 1474. Satyen Bose. N 803
Musing 1472. Baby Shobha and Sona. N 801
Musing 1471. Dharm in 1971. N 800
Musing 1470. James Bond Theme. N 799
Musing 1469. B B Bhalla. N 798
Musing 1468. Biwi Aur Makan (1966). N 797
Musing 1465. Sant Tukaram (1965). N 794.
Musing 1463. Prithviraj: Extra to Hero. N 792
Musing 1462. Song-less film. N 791
Musing 1460. Rustam-e-Rome. N 789
Musing 1459. Ummeed (1940). N 788
Musing 1458. Lanka Dahan (1917). N 787.
Musing 1457. More Aanganaa Men. N 786.
Musing 1456. Life in IPTA late 40s. N 785.
Musing 1455. Lahore Railway Station in 1940. N 784
Musing 1454.Border (1997). N 783
Musing 1453. Sarafarosh (1999)
Musing 1452. Vinita Butt (Yasmin). N 782
Musing 1451. Samson (1964). N 781
Musing 1450. Kidar Sharma. N 780
Musing 1449. Door Ki Awaz (1964). N 779
Musing 1448. Haqeeqat (1964). N 778
Musing 1447. Gulshan Bawra. N 777
Musing 1446. Amla Shankar. N 776
Musing 1445. Roopmala and Ranjan. N 775
Musing 1444. filmindia Covers Collection
Musing 1443. Sitara and Prithviraj Kapoor. N 774
Musing 1442. Damayanti Sahni. N 773
Musing 1440. Hindi Films The Stars of Silent Films Hindi Films Stars Series: Part 1
Musing 1439. Sri Lanka Film Industry. N 771
Musing 1438. USA Film data 1964. N 770
Musing 1437. Calcutta Film Data. N 769
Musing 1436. Bombay films data 1964. N 768
Musing 1435. South Indian Films. N 767
Musing 1433. Movie Goofs. N 765
Musing 1432. Nina Makkar. N 764
Musing 1429. Khayyam as singer. New 463
Musing 1428. Films and Shows in Bombay - 1931
Musing 1427. Mubarak Begum's Sister.
Musing 1425: Rajendra Kumar. New 461
Musing 1424. Savkari Pash. New 460
Musing 1423. Krishna Kumar and Sadhna Chowdhri. New 459
Musing 1422. FU Ramsay. New 458.
Musing 1421. Edwina Again! New 457
Musing 1420. Forgotten Artists of Early Cinema and The Same Name Confusion Book 2
Musing 1419. Dhiru Mistry. New 456.
Musing 1418. A Minor Setback. New 455
Musing 1417. Rajasulochana. New 454
Musing 1416. Waheguru in a song.
Musing 1415. Hindi Talkie Filmography (1961-70)
Musing 1414. Songs I have and Not. New 453.
Musing 1413. Kamal Maruti. New 452
Musing 1411. Salam Mem Sahib (1961). New 450.
Musing 1409: Hindi Talkie Filmography (1961-70) HINDI / हिन्दी सवाक् फ़िल्मोग्राफ़ी (1961-1970)
Musing 1408. Teen Deviyan. New 448
Musing 1407. T B Desai 'Thakur'. New 447.
Musing 1406. Madhubala. New 446.
Musing 1405. Group Dancers of Indian Cinema (Golden Age and Beyond)
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After the recent Musing about him, Pramathanath Sastry expressed puzzlement about how a Gujarati came to be in Lahore. I started to rummage through my collection of books, magazines, newspapers and cuttings. Finally remembered reading about him in the book 'Punjab Kee Filmee Taareekh' by Parvez Rahi published in Lahore.
Here is the relevant Urdu text with my translation.
Gul-e-Bakavali was a clean and a successful Punjabi film. Its dialogues were very interesting. This film was produced at the cost of 60,000 rupees and it made 15 lakhs of rupees. The music director of this film, Ghulam Haider was paid 250 rupees a month. This film was released in Prabhat Cinema Lahore on November 12, 1937.
Seth Dalsukh Pancholi's story of coming into film production goes something like this. He was a distributor of films, owner of Empire Distributors in Lahore. One day producer-director R L Shorey invited him to come to his studio. So Pancholi went to the studio in Muslim Town, where director R L Shorey was busy shooting his film 'Shahar Khamoshan'. On the set were Shyaman and Majanoon. Film director R L Shorey introduced the actors to Pancholi.
A few days after this incident, producer R L Shorey went to Pancholi and asked him to finance his film 'Sohni Mahiwal'. Pancholi agreed to do this but put many conditions before he could finance it. After the release of this film Pancholi made a huge profit. Because of this Pancholi gave away all of his distribution business to his elder brother and he himself started to produce films.
Now You Know!
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Please listen to these songs and hep identify the title, film, year, singers.
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- Musing 1117. Jagdish Saran Srivastava. J 187
- Musing 1142. Pakistan's first film. J 210
- Musing 1143. Mr Surendra Nath Sen, BA LLB. J 211
- Musing 1144: Baburao Patel was Wrong! J 212
- Musing 1164: Origin of Yahudi Ki Ladki. J 227
- Musing 1194. Mohana (Cabral). J 257
- Musing 1224. Bhagwan. J 284
- Musing 1089. Thomas Daniel Bangla Films. J 160
- Musing 1159. RD Burman and Asha. J 222
- Musing 1190. Vanmala. J 253.
- Musing 1127. Five Refugees. J 197
- Musing 1266. Some Tidbits Part V (final). 323
- Musing 1133. Hari Shivdasani. J 202
- Musing 1251. Some Tidbits Part II. J 311
- Musing 1167. Madhubala. J 230
