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Details: Published: 03 March 2025; Last Updated: 03 March 2025

Note: Available on Amazon.com and pothi.com

I am glad to report the publication of a book by my dear friend, veteran RMIMer Abhay Jain.

Tandem Songs in Hindi Films (Years 1931-2024)

From the description:

This book is for Hindi film music enthusiasts of every generation.

It is a based on listening to thousands of songs by author covering a period of over 90 years.

Tandem songs are songs generally with the same title (initial one or two lines also referred to as a Mukhda) or even the full song from the same movie but sung by different singers.

Ehsan Tera Hoga Mujh Par (Lata Mangeshkar)
Ehsan Tera Hoga Mujh Par (Mohammad Rafi)
Male solo and female solo from Junglee (1961)

Most Tandem songs are solo songs sung by two different singers. But there are also Tandem songs sung by different set of one or more singers. There are few cases where, one of the Tandem songs is sung by a solo singer and the other one by two or more singers, one singer may be common in both songs or it may be an entirely different set of singers for both Tandem songs.

This book lists 1,242 Tandem songs, with 2,553 total songs from 1136 films, starting from year 1935 and spanning over nine decades up to year 2024.

Contents include:

Year-wise song details including film name, mukhda, singers, composer and lyricist.
List of singers including number of Tandem songs and number of films.
List of lyricists including number of Tandem songs and number of films.
List of composers including number of Tandem songs and number of films.
Year-wise list of Tandem songs including chart.
Decade-wise list of Tandem songs including chart,

Hindi film music enthusiasts will find this book informative and an authentic reference material.

Paperback, 9 in by 7 in, Landscape. 211 pages.

First few pages may ne read here

Details: Published: 24 February 2025; Last Updated: 01 March 2025

NOTE: This is the International Edition available on lulu.com

For Indian Edition, please see page 2.

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 141st book

PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA 1949

Sanjeev Tanwar

A compilation of Hindi film posters of the year 1949. A collector's item. Year-wise collection of posters, cover page images of booklets, still photographs, etc. for the pleasure of re-visiting the Golden Era of the Silver Screen. The PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA-1949 covers all posters of Hindi films made in 1949.

Full color, US Letter, paperback, 164 pages

Now You Know!

A few pages here

Details: Published: 22 February 2025; Last Updated: 22 February 2025

NOTE: Available on lulu.com Pothi.com

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 140th book

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1972 Part B

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 four books on his work on 1971.

This fifth book is for movies of 1972 beginning with the letters E to P.

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, 151 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.

Now You Know!

As usual, the first few pages may be read here