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Details: Published: 04 December 2024; Last Updated: 04 December 2024

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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.

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

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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.

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As usual, the first few pages may be read here

Details: Published: 21 November 2024; Last Updated: 21 November 2024

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International Edition

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 131st book

Hindi Films Crew 1933-1940

Pradeep Asrani, Malini Kanth and Prof Surjit Singh

Everybody who has seen a Hindi film knows the titles sequence structure: the censor certificate, some disclaimers, some acknowledgments, the producer or the production company, the name of the film, the lead players, the character artists, a few smaller roles, perhaps animals, cars, the technicians like cinematographers, sound recorders, then editors, perhaps junior artist suppliers and the vehicle suppliers, usually ending with the lyricist, the music director, the director and the producer. There may be a mention of the music company, the studio and the sound recording system.
This huge amount of information has never been collected in systematic way so far. We have undertaken to do it, directly from the videos available.
We have avoided the information that is already included in the monumental Hindi Film Geet Kosh by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and focused on the rest of the crew. At this time we are limited by the availability of the movies. We plan to explore other sources at a later time.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 111 pages

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