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An excellent book on the 25 year history (1970-1995), of Music, Dance, Theater and Cinema from all over India, written by dozens of experts, with dozen board members. It covers all of the provinces, is in 2 volumes, has more than 700 pages. Ravi Shankar, B D Garg and Snajit Narwekar are contributors, among others.
It pains me to report that they put a photo of a person definitely not K L Saigal and labeled it as such. Amazing that so many qualified people could not see that. The writer of this particular article was born in 1918, must have seen at least one photo of Saigal somewhere.
Abhay Jain, Mothers' Day 2010
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Satyajit Ray describes his experiences of seeing silent films in Calcutta theaters.
Now you know!
Listen to Gunah Aur Qanoon (1970)
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I did not realize but according to this Question/Answer in Filmfare, Nasir and Meena did not talk in Daaera.
Now you know!
Bharat 36 Lata Roshan
- Musing 227: Pradeep angry, Roberto 78
- Musing 274: Aa teree tasveer banaa loon, Narsingh 754
- Musing 599: Panjabi Vanjara 1954. M R Acharekar
- Musing 500: Rafi 204. Thomas Daniel, my friend
- Musing 55: Temple bells, Toofan Men Pyar Kahan (1966)
- Musing 280: Phulke! Rafi 18
- Musing 122: Whistling, Narsingh 724
- Musing 430: Rafi 135. chiraaGh or chraaGh
- Musing 107: Singers became beggars, Narsingh 709
- Musing 238:SD Burman first, Roberto 88
- Musing 291: Revised hichakee, Rafi 29
- Musing 65: Garba like sticks, Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969)
- Musing 412: Rafi 117. Hollywwod vs Bollywood
- Musing 424: Sharma got $50. Rafi 129
- Musing 423: Rafi 128. chhor chhachhoraa
