professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 134th book
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1972 Part A
Kharag Singh and Professor Surjit Singh
In November 2022, I was surprised by an email from Kharag Singh from Ghatsila, Jharkhand informing me that he had captured thousands of pictures of Junior Artists and Background Dancers from hundreds of movies.
Since then he has been capturing photos of the main actors, character artists and junior artists.
He has already published three books on his work on 1971.
This fourth book is for movies of 1972 beginning with the letters A to D.
When you peruse the book you will realize that he has become an expert on recognizing obscure and small faces; obviously he has studied the books I sent him on Junior Artists and Group Dancers very thoroughly. I am proud to say that he can recognize people better and faster than me.
Paperback, 6 by 9, 149 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.
professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 133rd book
Indian Cinema Hall Fire Felt Around the World
(The story of an Indian cinema hall fire accident at Hyderabad on June 14, 1936, told via contemporary newspaper clippings)
M V Surender
On June 15, 1936 a film called College Girl was being shown in Moti Mahal Talkie, Sultan Bazaar, Hyderabad. As was customary, purdah ladies from the high society were watching it from the wooden balcony. Suddenly around 9:15 pm, a fire broke out. There was heat, smoke and panic everywhere. At first it was reported that 20 people had died, but later it was confirmed that 11 women and three children had died. One of the most amazing thing was that one of the ladies took off her Sari, tied it to one of the balcony pillars and lowered about 40 ladies one by one. Unfortunately all could not be saved because many had jumped from the balcony. She was Ashraf-un-Nisa Begum, the elderly wife of a retired Indian Army officer. For this act of bravery, she was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal of the British Empire by the British Government in 1937. This is the story of that tragedy as told through contemporary newspapers of the world.
Paperback, 6 by 9, 119 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.
professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 132nd book
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971 Part C
Kharag Singh and Professor Surjit Singh
In November 2022, I was surprised by an email from Kharag Singh from Ghatsila, Jharkhand informing me that he had captured thousands of pictures of Junior Artists and Background Dancers from hundreds of movies. He asked for my help in identifying them. I sent him books on these people published by me. He was very happy.
Naturally I asked him if he would help me with a similar project, he gladly agreed. I requested him to capture pictures of the cast from 1971-1980. Within days he stared sending me a large number of photos from movies. I realized that he is capturing so many photos that a book on 1971 alone will run to almost 500 pages! So we decided to split 1971 into many parts. This third and last one is for movies beginning with the letters N to Y.
When you peruse the book you will realize that he has become an expert on recognizing obscure and small faces; obviously he has studied the books I sent him on Junior Artists and Group Dancers very thoroughly. I am proud to say that he can recognize people better and faster than me.
Paperback, 6 by 9, 172 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.
