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First time like in Forever, a picture of Miss Gohar of the silent talkies, Movie Show 1930. You may have read about her winning some Gold Medal. Well, here is the actualt result, she beat another popular silent star Sulochana by 4% votes!
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professor toofaani publishers is honored to announce their 23rd book
Witnessing Wonders by Ali Peter John, the well-known former editor of Screen.
In his words
Ali Peter John has had several problems with his name. He does not have a ration card, nor does he have a passport, all because of his odd-sounding name. He is an M.A. in English literature from the Bombay University, but he believes that he has learnt more in the University of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas than he has learnt at the university.
He was writing for India's prominent film magazine Screen for forty-eight long years and his column, Ali's Notes, has been accepted as a landmark by the film industry and readers who has been following him. He has written in almost all the newspapers and magazines of India on a variety of subjects about films. He has published twenty books during the last twenty years in his own way. The most prominent book according to him is his autobiography, Life-Bits and Pieces, which had its cover designed by the renowned painter M. F. Husain, the autobiography has also been translated in various languages. His circle of friends includes all the legends and down to Shah Rukh Khan.
He has been living his own simple life without expecting anything from life. He is now writing for a leading Hindi film magazine Mayapuri and at 71, he writes at least two articles everyday. Some of them are his contributions to Facebook. He hopes to write till he can no longer write.
It was Khwaja Ahmad Abbas who picked up a post card I had written to him from a heap of fan mail that he used to get every day. It was that one post card that changed my life. I wanted to be a bus conductor. I wanted to be a Roman Catholic priest. I was advised to be a stenographer, but Abbas Sahab changed all my plans and showed me the writer in me and led me on my path.
I joined Screen on January 4, 1969 and left on August 7, 2007. It was the journey between 1969 and 2007 that made me know what the industry was and what the people who belonging do it were. What I had heard about them and what I saw and experienced with them was entirely different from what many said and believed about them.
This book is my tribute to all those who came across my path at different times and have lived with me and will live with me till the end of my life.
First 20 pages can be read here
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1100th MUSING! Baaboo Samajho Ishaare. J 170
Musing 1099. Bollywood in article. J 169.
Musing 1098. Shanta Apte beat up Baburao Patel? J 168
Musing 1096. Moni Chatterjee. J 166
Musing 1094. Mohanlal Aima. J 164
Musing 1093. RMIM group in Action. J 163
Musing 1092: ALI(VE) in Bits And Pieces.
Musing 1091. Vinita Butt (Yasmin). J 162
Musing 1089. Thomas Daniel Bangla Films. J 160
Musing 1088. More M Y Mohan. J 159
Musing 1087. M Y Mohan, Singer? J158
Musing 1085. Baby Shakuntala. J 156
Musing 1083. Ragas in Songs. J 154
Musing 1082. Salida, Mozart and Me. J 153
Musing 1081. The Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.
Musing 1079. Alladin Ka Chiragh or Charagh. J 151
Musing 1077. Jagdish Sethi. J 149
Musing 1076. Madhubala in Nata (1955). J 148
Musing 1075: More JFH Van der Auwera. J 147
Musing 1074: JFH Van der Auwera. J 146
Musing 1072: Lata 25,000 to 60,000. J 144
Musing 1071: SSL Certificate. J 143
Musing 1070. Censor Certificate Book (HINDI)
Musing 1069. Lara Lappa and Me.
Musing 1067. Khurshid Anwar. J 141
Musing 1066. HFGK in RMIM. J 140
Musing 1065. Shashichand F. Kapoor
Musing 1064. A Year in Hindi Films. J 139
Musing 1063. S N Tripathy. J 138
Musing 1062. Shashi Kapoor. J 137
Musing 1061. Film Song Books in Rekhta. J 136
Musing 1059. Nishee in MIlan (1958). J 134
Musing 1058. More Yashodhara Katju. J 133
Musing 1057. Keval Singh Ragi (1923-1974)
Musing 1056. Yashodhara Katju. J 132
Musing 1055. Filmography of Pandit Bharat Vyas
Musing 1053. Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-60)
Musing 1052. Evolution of Filmography. J 130
Musing 1051. Rajendra Singh. J 129
Musing 1049. Ratan Gaurang. J 127
Musing 1048. Sitara (not Devi). J 126
Musing 1047. Sulochana Chatterjee. J 125
Musing 1046. Harmonium Ban on AIR. J 124
Musing 1045. C Ramchandra book
Musing 1044. Baalam again. J 123
Musing 1042. De De Khudaa Ke Naam Pe.
Musing 1040. Achala Sachdev. J 120
Musing 1039. Bir Sakhuja. J 119
Musing 1038. Leela Mishra. J 118
Musing 1037. Bhagwan Sinha. J 117
Musing 1031. Sulochana Kadam singing. J 112
Musing 1030. Sulochana Kadam. J 111
Musing 1029; Waris (1954) 'Badhai Hai'. J 110
Musing 1028. Roshan Kumari. J 109
Musing 1027. Filmography Update.
Musing 1026. My Website. J 108
Musing 1025: S D Burman in 1948. J 107
Musing 1024. Silent Cinema. J 106
Musing 1023. S B Nayampally. J 105
Musing 1022: "Bollywood" in 1969. J 104
Musing 1021. G M Durrani. J 103.
Musing 1020. How Ali Peter John met Azurie. J 102
Musing 1017. "Bollywood" in 1977. J 99
Musing 1015. Sajjan misbehaves. J 97
Musing 1014: The Sad and Glad of Kishore Kumar. J 96
Musing 1013. Meeting Dev Anand. J 95
Musing 1012. More cinematographers J 94
Musing 1011. Josef and Charlotte Wirsching. J 93
Musing 1010. WITH YOU, MAA, WITHOUT YOU, OH MAA!
Musing 1009. Banjarin (1960). J 92
Musing 1008. Poster Designers. J 91
Musing 1007. More Abu Baker. J 90
Musing 1005. TWCMIBBIWNPWOT J 88
Musing 1004. Nadir (Mota). J 87
- Musing 902: Madhubala in Suhana Geet. New 81
- Musing 880: BV Dharap. New 60.
- Musing 893. Shah Commission Report and Kishore Kumar. New 73
- Musing 1033. Manorama. J 144.
- Musing 877. Jabeen and Saeeda Khan. New 56
- Musing 865. Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam. New 47.
- Musing 876. Parbat Ki Rani (1948) songs
- Musing 867. Sardar Akhtar. New 49
- Musings 1201-1300
- Musing 934. John Cawas. J 25
- Musing 869. Miss Sultana. New 51.
- Musing 903. Surekha Sikri (1945-2021). New 82
- Musing 866. Bahar Akhtar. New 48.
- Musing 923: Ai Mere Watan Ke Logo. J 14
- Musing 863. Deevar (Drama). New 45
