NOTE: I am not bragging, there is a reason behind this post.
As everybody knows I'm usually working on many projects at the same time, and all of them are in my head or sometimes on a scratch paper, which I throw away later. A dear friend of mine suggested that I should actually write it down and make it public.
The main reason he said is that there might be an overlap, somebody else might be doing the same project. I personally do not mind if many people are working on the same project. After all there are two books on S D Burman, three on Rafi and two on K L Saigal!
However, I decided to follow his advice.
I am not including my finished projects because they are already listed in the Published Books area; all my projects lead to books in the end. So I have two tables, the first one indicates the projects that are active now, in other words people are actually working on them and they will result in books. The second table is the table of future or proposed projects, which are just ideas at this time, absolutely no work has been done on them. My humble request to everybody is that if anybody is working on any of these projects please let me know now by email etc.
ACTIVE
Films Shown in Bombay 1931-1940 | Tables from Newspaper |
Cine Diary, Birth Dates etc | Translation from Marathi |
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971- | Capture images from video |
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery A- | Capture images from Magazines |
Radio Transcripts - | Convert blog to Book |
All the crew from films | Capture information from video |
Bela Bose Filmography | Capture images from video |
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1931-1970 | Capture images from video |
Dev Anand Encyclopedia | Capture info from everywhere |
Beete Hue Din | Convert blog to Book |
Pandit Chand Fillmography | Capture images from video |
Sheila Ramchandran Filmography | Capture images from video |
Pankaj Mullick Filmography | Capture info from reliable sources |
Kanaan Devi Filmography | Capture info from reliable sources |
K L Saigal Filmography | Capture info from reliable sources |
Many unfinished projects | Capture info from Newspaper |
Films Shown in Bombay 1941-1950 | Tables from Newspaper |
FUTURE/PLANNED
Additional songs, music and dance sequences found while watching films | Capture information from video |
Any legal/social trouble faced by producers | Capture info from reliable sources |
Any records such as Silver Jubilee, etc. related with films | Capture info from reliable sources |
Any remake of the film with new title, into other Indian or foreign films | Capture info from reliable sources |
Awards won | Capture info from reliable sources |
Cast and role played | Capture information from video |
Child artists who rose to play the roles of hero, heroines, etc. | Capture info from reliable sources |
Film stories or songs based on non-Indian sources | Capture info from reliable sources |
Films in which hero and/or heroine pass away in the middle/end of the film | Capture information from video |
If the film was made into many languages | Capture info from reliable sources |
If this is a remake of a foreign film | Capture information from video |
If this is a remake/dubbed from other Indian film | Capture information from video |
Incidents occurred during film shooting, etc. | Capture info from reliable sources |
Incidents occurred with the actors during or after shooting like getting married, injured or died, etc. | Capture info from reliable sources |
Memorable scenes, dialogues, etc. of the films | Capture information from video |
Non-characteristic things, lyricist/director/cameraman appearing in film | Capture information from video |
Other trivia, such as debut film, first CinemaScope film, etc. | Capture info from reliable sources |
Photo gallery of each film comprising booklet cover page, still photographs, photographs of film related personalities | Capture info from reliable sources |
Shooting locales, type of cars used, special animals used, etc. as found in films | Capture information from video |
Song raga, instruments used, musicians names, etc. | Capture info from reliable sources |
Songs picturised on the artists | Capture information from video |
Story synopsis, full text of songs extracted from the booklets | Capture info from reliable sources |
Now You Know!