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Illustrated History of Punjabi Cinema (1935-1985)
I heard about Bhim Raj Garg from Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' in the early 90s. He has been working on Panjabi Film Geet Kosh, now expanded to include pictures ans renames, Illustrated History of Punjabi Cinema. Later I kept running into his name in various publications and articles that had to do with the history of Punjabi cinema. For example, the famous Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Willemen and Rajadhyaksha (1999) credit only his name for all the information on Punjabi Cinema. Here is a story of his quest and a few sample pages from the book.
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Film Parinay has a very famous song, Sooraj Ko garmee se' by the Shrre Ram Darbar Sharma Bandhu. It is not too well-known that their father Pt Ramanand Sharma had acted and sung in few Hindi films during his youth. Here is a song by him in Naushad's first film by himself.
Listen to 1940090008_1940_prem-nagar_08_raamaanand_man-ke-taat-hilaa-jaa.mp3
Now you know!
Bharat 14 Lata with Hridyanath
- Muisng: 522: Rafi 226. Madhubala in Mahal
- Musing 559: Laila Majnu, Neelam
- Musing 505: Rafi 209. madhuras
- Musing 679: Surekha Sikri. Misc 10
- Musing 415: Rafi 120. Vitthal.
- Musing 284: Ballon-vaalee, Rafi 22
- Musing 146: Clapping in song, RMIM 09
- Musing 376: muniyaaN, Rafi 85
- Musing 388: Khyal origins, Rafi 93
- Musing 390: Pundalik, Rafi 95
- Musing 461: Rafi 166. sitaare zameeN
- Musing 74: First Disc Artist, Priya (1970)
- Musing 268: Pukar tune used, Rafi 10
- Musing 329: Madhu at 12, Rafi 62
- Musing 359: Rafi MDs, Fusion Music
