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Published: 13 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

To day I want to highlight a very special and unique group on Facebook. It is called THOSE WHO COULD NOT MAKE IT BIG BUT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM. These guys are world experts in identifying the background dancers in group song and various party-goers, wedding attendants, jury members etc, They must have made hundreds of them known to the world. Hats off to them. Here is an example

Shinde, Chinu and Basant in Tarzan Comes to Delhi (1965). Of course, you already know about Shinde if you read my book on Edwina Violette!

Now you know!

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Published: 12 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

Everyone has heard the phrase, aavazz kee duniyaa ke dosto (Never doston). Some people think that it was invented by some guy from Radio Ceylon. Not so, It is heard here for the first time in a Radio context.

Listen to 1939_dushman_07_man-darapan-hai.mp3

Now you know!

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Published: 11 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

There is a website called Box Office of India that claims to give you the top ten earners of the Hindi film industry from the very beginning. Anybody could see that the numbers were made up. Somebody must have complied because they now go back to about 1990 only. Here is an example of crock they had put up.

Now you know!

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