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Articles on Hindi Films
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Indonesian music has been influenced by Hindi film music. Whole books and articles have been written about that. Here is one example
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Bharat 11 Lata Bahl
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Here is waht the then Director, National Film Archives of India, Pune, had to say in the Foreword to the very first volume of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh. The 'artwork' on the page is by my 1.5 year old son, Prof Jaideep Singh, now at the Michigan State University. Lansing, Michigan, USA..
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Rafi 44
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You may remember Nargis saying Firpos! to a taxi driver in Raat Aur Din (167). Turns out that the nightlife at Firpos and Grand Hotel in Calcutta was known to all Westernized Indians in 1927.
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Rafi 133
- Musing 3: Filmographies how?
- Musing 92: Gossip in 1949, Narsingh 695
- Musing 78: Comic Parody, Narsingh 681
- Musing 120: Not tabla, Narsingh 722
- Musing 377: Kesarbai kerkar on Voyager Disc, Gwalior Gharana 4
- Musing 182: Sticks in song, Bharat 20 Lata Jamal Sen
- Musing 282: Hamari gali Ana, Rafi 20
- Musing 199: One to twelve, Bharat 37 Lata Roshan
- Musing 418: Rafi 123. First cinema in Punjab
- Musing 57: Piano song, Chhaila Babu (1967)
- Musing 283: Nehru fan of Devika Rani, Rafi 21
- Musing 285, Raj Kapoor weds, Rafi 23
- Musing 407: Rafi 112, daal not Daal
- Musing 184: Meena first song, Bharat 22 Lata Manna De
- Musing 169: Damle of Prabhat, Bharat Lata Bulo C Rani 07
