Note: The book is now available as kindle electronic book.
NOTE: Now on Amazon INDIA! CLICK HERE
I am happy to announce the release of the Kindle electronic version of the Edwina Violette biography. It is available in Amazon sites all over the world. Amazon allowed a minimum price of $1.99. For other sites they calculated the price. For example in India it is Rs 133.
No text was changed but I made a few enhancements. The photos are in color. I have included her images from her films. Lastly, there are clickable links that take you the YouTube site for her songs, mainly uploaded by Tom Daniel.
A Hindi version is in preparation.
Here are the links for US and India.
Edwina: An Unsung Bollywood Dancer of the Golden Era
Where to Buy
For people in India, it is also on flipkart now:
And Amazon India
http://www.amazon.in/dp/1507591217
The book has been published and should be available on Amazon world-wide (for US$5.95 + shipping) and possibly at other sites.
Not sure about the bookstores. In India look for it on pothi.com. Please do not order from Amazon India. They will charge you US$5.95 + shipping from USA! For India, the best is pothi.com, Rs 199 + shipping.
http://pothi.com/pothi/book/professor-surjit-singh-edwina-unsung-bollywood-dancer-golden-era
Greta Kaemmer wrote a post about ir on her blog
http://memsaabstory.com/2015/07/22/happy-birthday-to-edwina/#comments
Edwina Filmography
Table of Contents
Here is the chapter listing of the book
Illustration Index
Edwina Violette's message in her Own Voice
For the last almost one year I have been busy writing a book on a background dancer, Edwina Violette. Here is a message from Edwina before the release of the book.
In the famous song O Haseenaa Zulfonwaalee from Teesri Manzil, she is the Zulfonwaalee. She comes in the beginning of the song waving her hair.
And later she is seen lying on the Moon in the foreground, while Helen is far away and tiny,
This is her biography written by me. It is ready and will be published on her birthday, July 22. She lives in the UK and this is how she looks like now.