Hindi Film Geet Kosh and related publications

Below I describe briefly Hindi Film Geet Kosh and Listeners' Bulletin. For details, please visit

So far, 5 volumes of Hindi Film Geet Kosh have been published, one for each decade starting from 1931, the first year of Hindi talkies. In the Geet Kosh, there is one entry for each movie which includes year with other censor details, names of artists, director, producer and production company, opening line of every song with respective singer(s), lyricist(s), music director(s). Gramophone disc/CD/MC numbers are also included wherever available.

HFGK VOLUME	INFO	PAGES	No. OF FILMS	APP. No. OF SONGS	PRICE [DELUXE Edition]	PRICE [LEATHER- BOUND Edition]
I	1931-40	726	931	9,000	$25	$32
II	1941-50	786	1,236	11,000	$28	$35
III	1951-60	744	1,160	9,000	$23	$30
IV	1961-70	668	1,007	7,000	$25	$32
V	1971-80	828	1,327	8,000	$28	$35
VI	1981-85	528	843	5,000	$16	$20
HINDI FILMO-GRAPHY	1981-99 App.[2000] App.[2001-2] App. [2003] App. [2004] App. [2005] App.[2006] App. [2007]	482 42 80 40 50 54 52 60	3,381 243 448 222 246 250 222 257	---	$70**	$78**
HINDI TALKIE FILM INDEX	1931-87, 1988-2007	100 76	7,000 3,917	---	$18**	---

AIRMAIL POSTAGE FOR GEET KOSH VOLUMES IS $23 PER BOOK; SEAMAIL POSTAGE IS $13 EACH.

** THE PRICE FOR FILMOGRAPHY AND INDEX INCLUDES AIRMAIL POSTAGE.

FULL LYRICS GEET KOSH	PRICE [DELUXE]	PRICE [LEATHER-BOUND]
MUKESH For more info, please visit Mukesh Page	$40 (inc. airmail postage)	$47 (inc. airmail postage)
KUNDAN LAL SAIGAL For more info, please visit Saigal Page	$48 (inc. airmail postage)	$55 (inc. airmail postage)

Each book is sent by Registered Mail from Kanpur, India.

LISTENERS' BULLETIN is a periodical newspaper (9" x 11" size) that carries articles and accounts of interviews and correspondence with well-known and not-so-well-known lyricists, singers, music directors, and others. It is published 4 times a year. Each issue is priced at US $2 per copy including Air Mail. You can subscribe to it for its forthcoming 10 by paying $20.
Please contact me for a sample copy.

As of January 2009, there are a total of 139 old issues available going back to October 1971. The price for the whole bound set is US $100 for the Deluxe Edition (including Air Mail charge). For the Leather-Bound Edition of this set, the price is $110.

An updated subject and name index is available for download here LISTENERS' BULLETIN INDEX. Current owners of LB will find it extremely useful. Prospective buyers can look at the wealth of subjects and the names of scores of movie people covered. Index of Contents is updated every time with the publication of new issue of the Bulletin. Complete set of Bulletins published till date is provided to the interested music lovers.

Volume-VI [1981-85], Volume-VII [1986-90], etc. of the series are in preparation.

In order to learn more any of these items, you may visit the Hindi Film Geet Kosh page

Hindi Film Geet Kosh

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