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Hindi Films, all aspects

Details: Published: 20 July 2024; Last Updated: 20 July 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 107th book

Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery III (K-L)

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 first two books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-J. This third book covers K-L.

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, 148 pages

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First few pages here

Details: Published: 02 July 2024; Last Updated: 02 July 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 106th book,

Films and Shows in Bombay - 1933

Ajit Sidhu
and
Professor Surjit Singh

What is the year of the film? This question is often asked but it may surprise you to know that it has many answers. The most definite answer is the year mentioned on the censor certificate. This used to be hard to find. However, now the year and the whole censor information of Hindi films from 1931 to 2010 is available on the website

http://hamraaz.org/hfgk

There is no official publication for this information. Also, this information changes from city to city as films having limited number of prints, cannot be released everywhere at once. Finding this information requires much more work. One can find it in the magazine reviews, magazine and newspaper ads, and, sometimes in the trade publications. All these sources are hard to come by.
Recently, SS and two of his co-workers published a book on the films running in the Madras theatres,

Films Showing in Madras Theatres (1941-1947), by MV Surender, N Ramaswamy and Prof Surjit Singh (2021)

In the book at hand, we present information about the stage shows, silents and talkies running in Bombay in 1933. We plan to cover the years 1931-1950 at least. This information is based on the Bombay Chronicle newspaper available on the Internet Archive website.
It is fascinating to follow the life of many films, some run for a long time, some only a few weeks, some move to other theatres. We found this information to be enjoyable to work with and fascinating.
We hope that our readers will also enjoy this nostalgia-inspiring work.

Paperback 6 by 9, Black and White, 176 pages, color cover.

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First few pages may be read here

Details: Published: 01 July 2024; Last Updated: 01 July 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 105th book

Censor Certificate Information (1931-1940) – Revised and Updated (HINDI EDITION)

Har Mandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’
Professor Surjit Singh

We have already published a book on the Censor Information from 1931-2010. Normally, I do not like to publish another edition so soon.

However, Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' has provided so much new information that I decided to issue the revised and updated version for 1931-1940 as a book.

Of course, the information has already been revised and updated on the Database Website.

English Edition has already been published.

Paperback 6 by 9, Black and White, 257 pages, color cover.

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First few pages may be read here