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Published: 29 September 2017

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I went to US in 1969, did not hear of the term Bollywood, returned in 1975, the term was everywhere! There are many claims but nobody knows for sure who started it. But the sister term Tollywood (for Calcutta studios) has been in print since March 1932!

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 Listen to Shankar Sita Ansuya (1965)

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Published: 28 September 2017

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Parody song is a comic song that has the same or very similar tune of a popular song but the words are changed. The earliest one I have heard is 'gaao gaao ai mere saadhoo' from MIss Frontier Mail (1936)

gaao gaao ai mere

It is based on the very popular 'jaavo jaavo ai mere saadho' from Pooran Bhagat (1933)

jaavo jaavo ai mere

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Listen to Sati Nari (1965)

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Published: 27 September 2017

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In the early early talkies, males had to play female roles also, because the acting had a bad reputation and no respectable female would come forward. When they did, men did not like it. Kamlabai in an interview

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 Listen to Purnima (1965)