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Published: 23 November 2017

Last Updated: 23 November 2017

Lots of collectors have lots of rare material related to Hindi films, songs, videos, magazines, books etc. Many of them are hoarders who do not want to share their stuff at all. But many do. On my website one can enjoy almost 40,000 songs, mostly contributed by dozens of selfless collectors who gave songs to me free without any expectation in return. I have posted a few books and magazine articles also contributed by collectors.

One such selfless collector is Sudarshan Talwar of Calcutta who has posted more than 2,000 images from his priceless collection. He spent his own money and shared these items, without mutilating them in any way, on his Facebook timeline and various groups. I am hoping to bring his collection to my website. In the meantime, enjoy this rare ad in a Calcutta magazine, a fitting addition to Musing 52.

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Published: 22 November 2017

Last Updated: 22 November 2017

In Musing 95, I mentioned a song from President (1937) having the words, Damned it. The person who says this and also sings the song is mostly unknown to the internet. The reason is that his name is not mentioned in the HFGK Volume 1 and the whole world copies from it mostly without acknowledgement.  And the reason for the absence is that the film was not available to Har Mandir Singh Hamraaz when he compiled that volume. The name is mentioned in the cast. He is Bikram Nahar who played the role of Jagdish Sethi's younger England-returned brother. Here is the cast

And here is Bikram Nahar

Finally here is the video of the whole sequence.

Watch Bikram-Nahar-President-1937.mp4

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Published: 21 November 2017

Last Updated: 21 November 2017

Many of you know about the long hours M V Surender put into searching the Indian Express archive to find interesting stuff that I host on my website. I have found it to be very useful in my work. Now one more person has found it to be of immense use.

He is Sugeeth Krishnamoorthy, the young software professional who has brought out an ebook 'Talkie Experiences in Tamil', translation of a 1938 publication

http://shakespir.com/ebook/talkie-experiences-in-tamil-194291

He writes in his Foreword,

"I am also thankful to Prof.Surjit Singh and M.V.Surender for hosting and maintaining rare ‘out of copyright’ material from the Indian Express Archives on their website. It has been of immense help to me. "

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