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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 115th book

Hindi Film Reviews (1931-1950) by

Arunkumar Deshmukh

The author has been writing reviews on about 800 films that he saw over the years. During the 40s and the early 50s, many films of the 30s were shown as Morning shows in theatres at reduced rates. He tried hard not to miss them. He saw many films in Nepal and Dhaka. He saw "New Theatre Film Festival" in Calcutta twice. In Bombay there were "Prabhat Film Festival" and "Minerva Film Festival". He attended them and saw films many of which are no longer easily available.
These reviews are based on his notes, writings and many references.

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 126 pages.

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 114th book

Early Radio Artists: A Pictorial: Part II

Aftab Datta

The Indian Listener was started in December 1935, which became Akashvani in January, 1958 in India. Besides the program, the magazine had essays on music, biographies and photos of artists, reports about musical conferences etc. This is a book of images captured from the magazine. It contains photos of hundreds of radio artists, some well-known, some long-forgotten. In the first part, there were about 700 images with names from A to L. In this part II, there are more than 800 images.

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 273 pages.

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First few pages may be read here