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Published: 20 September 2023

Last Updated: 20 September 2023

I will never get tired of saying this:

Before I published my book on Edwina, I did not know too many non-star actors. But thanks to Narsingh, Edwina, Dr Ramnath, Upendra (and others) and their hard work, I know many more now. In watching the songs from the 1961-1970, I was delighted to be able to recognize many of them. 

The maximum number of people, who were not the lead singers, recognized in a song, is 29 from Woh Kaun Thi, Tiki Riki song. Here is the list of top ten numbers. Our favorite Edwina is in many of them.

Note: English version coming soon. It includes well-known actors and character actors.

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New06 Mixed Songs. 

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Published: 20 October 2023

Last Updated: 20 October 2023

Hindi films only. In order of appearance. Thanks to inputs by Balaji Murthy and Kalyan Kolachala.

Ishrat Jahan (Bibbo). Adal-e-Jahangir (1934)

Jaddan Bai (Nargis Mother). Talash-e-Haq (1935)

Saraswati Devi (Khorshed Minocher-Homji) was the first female music director with the film Jawani Ki Hawa (1935)

Amirbai Karnataki. Shahanaz (1948)

Usha Khanna. Dil Deke Dekho (1959)

Sudha Malhotra (one song in) Didi (1959)

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New32 Shevan Rizvi

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Published: 08 October 2023

Last Updated: 08 October 2023

Thanks to the remarks by Vivek Kumar and Arunkumar Deshmukh on my Facebook post, it is clear that there were two Dinshaw Billimorias. First one started out as an actor, then became a color film technician in Film City under JFH van der Auwera. [Incidentally his elder brother Eddie was also an actor, later character artist.] The second one started out as an assistant to Chandrakant Pandya as a recordist and then becoming one himself, winning the Filmfare awards for Bandini and Agent Vinod.

Harish raghuwanshi in his book, 'Inhen na Bhulana' writes that the actor Dinshaw worked in the Sound Department of Film Center in the beginning.

So, which one is the assistant in Aurat (1940)? It turns of that the Chief Sound Recordist for that Mehboob film is Chandrakant Pandya. So, it is reasonable to assume that it is the second one, who was never an actor.

The documents have small print, and, may be difficult to read as images on cell phones, so, I combined them into a pdf.
The Filmlfare one is from my collection, the other two are given by Vivek Kumar. Thank you very much Vivek Kumar!

DINSHAW DOCS

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New 22. Dekha Karo Bhagwan Ghareebon Ka Tamasha.