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Published: 06 May 2023

Last Updated: 06 May 2023

Ashok Films, Bombay claim that they are making Sant Tukaram in 1965 in Hindi for the first time.

However, the same title was made in HINDI in 1948. From the database website:

Title: Sant Tukaaraam     Alias:
Rating:     Production Co: Prabhaat Chitra, Bombay
Censor Year: 1948     Color: BW
Certificate: 40441     Center: Bombay
Subject: Social     Censor Date: 25.11.1948
Length Ft: 11795     Meters: 3594.94
Reels     Duration in Minutes 131

Lesson: Don't believe everything the production company tells you.

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Narsingh 794

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Published: 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 30 June 2023

When I bought a copy of the very first edition of the first published volume of Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1951-1960) in 1980, I was overjoyed. I had never seen anything like it. After a few months I calmed down and started finding misprints. One of the most annoying was the name of this lyricist spelt as Raja Mehndi Ali Khan (with an extra 'n'). I hesitated to contact the author because, I thought, it is too late to do anything. Also surely, somebody must have told him by now.

Imagine my surprise when I obtained the Revised Edition in 1997, it had the same mistake! To this day I deeply regret not having sent him a postcard in 1980.

It turns out that it is a very common mistake, even producers of films, who hired him to write the lyrics, misspell his name.

See here a title card from Jab Yaad Kisee Kee Aatee Hai (1967)

Please note that his name has the word Mehdi, not Mehndi.

Note: This has been corrected in all the latest editions and the Database Website.

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Published: 17 April 2023

Last Updated: 17 April 2023

in Kalpana (1946), filmindia.

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Narsingh 776