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Published: 01 January 2026

Last Updated: 01 January 2026

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA announces their 180th and 181st book

Hindi Talkies (1941-1950) 78RPM Records (All But N) HINDI and ENGLISH

Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'

Prof Surjit Singh

When we looked at all the 78RPM records available in this decade, we found that the file is too big, so we have decided this to divide into two books. This book is a listing of all the records that start with the letters other than N and has information about the record number, year, film, song title and singers as mentioned on the record.

A4 Size, Paperback.

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A few pages may be read here, as usual

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Published: 31 December 2025

Last Updated: 31 December 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is thrilled to announce their books 177, 178, 179

Pictorial History of Hindi Cinema - 1944, 1945, 1946

Sanjeev Tanwar

This interesting series of books with color posters, pictures and all kinds of other interesting information is like an illustrated mini encyclopedia of Hindi films. 

Sanjeev has put lots of effort into these and he has been publishing them for a while.

These are international editions in US letter paper size in full color. 

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Some photos can be seen here

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Published: 30 December 2025

Last Updated: 30 December 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 176th book

Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery VIII (T-Z)

N Ramaswamy
Professor Surjit Singh

Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.

Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.

There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.

In the earlier books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-S. This book covers T-Z.

We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 139 pages

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First few pages here