I believe first comprehensive work on Indian was the films was the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen (1998). It has the biographies of film people, brief description of films in many languages and many rare pictures.
They describe how they got their information from many different sources and people. Many of these people and others have now written film Geet Koshes. Still many other people whose names are have not proceeded further.
I'm going to publish the list from the book hoping that some activity can be generated.
Now You Know!
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