For doing research for material for HFGK, Hamraaz met lots of people in different cities. Broadly speaking they are in two groups. First group is the film personalities that he met and interviewed. Second group is the music lovers that he met and obtained information and material from. The film personalities talked to him and gave him a lot of valuable information. Music lovers also helped him generously with whatever information and rare material they had.
In that sense all of them are collaborators of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh.
From 1980 when he published the first book to 2025 when he published the 3rd edition of Volume IV, he met hundreds of film personalities and music lovers. He thanks them and lists their names at the end of each in book appendices. I have combined all of the names, remove duplicates and produced a master list .[I had Gemini to help me.]
Now You Know!
Here is the master list in two categories.
"Film Personalities"
A. R. Kardar (Bombay)
A. V. Damle (Poona)
Ahmed Wasi (Mumbai)
Ajit Merchant (Mumbai/Bombay)
Alla Rakha Qureshi (Bombay)
Anand Bakshi (Mumbai/Bombay)
Anil Biswas (Delhi)
Anju Mahendru (Mumbai)
Archana Johari (Mumbai)
Asha Bhosle (Bombay)
Balkavi Bairagi (Neemuch)
Balkrishna Sharma 'Madhup' (Bombay)
Basant Pictures (M/s.) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Basant Prakash (Bombay)
Begum Akhtar (Faizabad)
Bhagwan (Bombay)
Bipin (of Bipin-Babul Duo)
Bulo C. Rani (Mumbai/Bombay)
C. Arjun (Mumbai/Bombay)
Chandrani Mukherjee (Mumbai/Bombay)
Chitragupta (Mumbai/Bombay)
D. Dilip (Bombay)
Datta Davjekar (Bombay)
Dilip Sircar (Calcutta)
Dilraj Kaur (Mumbai)
Ezra Mir (Bombay)
Fida Hussain 'Narsi' (Moradabad)
Firoze B. Dastur (Bombay)
G. M. Durrani (Bombay)
G. N. Joshi (Prof.) (Bombay)
G. D. Agrawal (Bombay)
Gajanan Jagirdar (Bombay)
Gulshan Bawra (Bombay)
Gulzar (Mumbai/Bombay)
Hansraj Behl (Hans Raj Behal) (Bombay)
Harish Kataria (Mumbai)
Harishchandra Priyadarshi (Nalanda)
Hasrat Jaipuri (Mumbai/Bombay)
Heerabai Barodkar (Poona)
Hemant Kumar (Calcutta)
Himmat Rai Sharma (Bombay)
Iqbal Qureshi (Mumbai/Bombay)
Jagdish Chowkhani (Calcutta)
Jagjit Kaur (Mumbai)
Juthika Roy (Calcutta)
K. N. Singh (Bombay)
Kalyanji (-Anandji) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Kamlabai Barodkar (Poona)
Kanan Devi (Calcutta)
Kedar Sharma (Kidar Sharma) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Kedar Nath Chowdhury (Darbhanga)
Kersi P. Mistry (Mumbai/Bombay)
Keshav Rathod (Ahmedabad)
Khayyam (Mumbai/Bombay)
Krishnakant (Surat)
Kumkum (Bombay)
Madhulal D. Master (Bombay)
Mahendra Kapoor (Bombay)
Majrooh Sultanpuri (Mumbai/Bombay)
Manmohan Krishna (Mumbai/Bombay)
Manna Dey (Bombay)
Manohar Khanna (Bombay)
Manohar Mahajan (Mumbai)
Master (Bhai) Chhaila (Bombay)
Meenakshi Shirodkar (Bombay)
Mina Kapoor (Delhi)
Mohd. Aziz (Mumbai)
Mubarak Begum (Bombay)
Mukund Rai Trivedi (Mumbai)
Naqsh Lyallpuri (Mumbai/Bombay)
Narendra Sharma (Bombay)
Nari Ghadiali (Bombay)
Naushad Ali (Mumbai/Bombay)
Ninu Mazumdar (Bombay)
O. P. Nayyar (Mumbai/Bombay)
P. Jairaj (Bombay)
Pradeep (Bombay)
Prahlad Sharma (Kolkata/Calcutta)
Pramila (Bombay)
Pran (Bombay)
Prem Dhawan (Bombay)
Prof. B. R. Deodhar (Bombay)
Pulak Bannerjee (Pulak Banerjee) (Kolkata/Calcutta)
Qamar Jalalabadi (Mumbai/Bombay)
R. N. Trivedi (Kanpur)
Raajesh Johari (Mumbai)
Rajkumar (Bombay)
Rajkumari (Bombay)
Raju Naushad (Mumbai)
Ram Gopal Gupta (Mumbai)
Prof. Ramanand Sharma (Muzaffarnagar)
Ramchandra Pal (Bombay)
Ram Daryani (Bombay)
Ramesh Gupta (Ahmedabad/Bombay)
Ravi (Bombay)
Ravindra Dave (Bombay)
Ravindra Nath Thakur (N. Delhi)
Robin Bannerjee (Mumbai/Bombay)
S. Madan (Mumbai/Bombay)
S. Mohinder (Mumbai/Canada/USA)
S. N. Tripathi (Mumbai/Bombay)
Sajjad Hussain (Bombay)
Sameer (Mumbai)
Santosh Mukherjee (Bombay)
Saraswati Rane (Poona)
Saraswati Kumar 'Deepak' (Mumbai/Bombay)
Sardar Malik (Mumbai/Bombay)
Satish Bhatia (Delhi)
Shahu Modak (Bombay)
Shanker Singh Tomar (Shanker Singh Tomer) (Kanpur)
Shiv Kumar 'Saroj' (Mumbai/Bombay)
Shyam Sunder (Mrs.) (Delhi)
Snehal Bhatkar (Bombay)
Sudhir Phadke (Mumbai/Bombay)
Suprova Sarkar (Calcutta)
Suraj Prakash (Bombay)
Surendra Nath (Bombay)
Suryakamal (Mumbai)
Talat Mahmood (Mumbai/Bombay)
Tilakraj (Mumbai)
Usha Khanna (Mumbai/Bombay)
Usha Mangeshkar (Mumbai/Bombay)
V. Balsara (Kolkata/Calcutta/Bombay)
Vedpal Verma (Mumbai/Bombay)
Vijay Bhatt (Mumbai/Bombay)
Vithaldas Panchotia (Bombay)
Zohrabai Ambalawali (Bombay)
Zubeida (Bombay)
Music Lovers and others
A. Mazumdar (Satna)
A. Rajamannar (Gulbarga)
A. S. Kohli (Delhi)
Abbas T. Badani (Gondal)
Abhay Jain (U.S.A.)
Ajeenkya Sampat (Mumbai)
Ajit K. Pradhan (Dombivli)
Anoop Gadodia (Kolkata/Calcutta)
Anurag Misra (Etawah)
Arun Patil (Dombivli)
Arvind Patel (Dhoraji)
Arvind Shah (Rajkot)
Asgar M. Manek (Toronto/Canada)
Atul Dutta Phanse (Mumbai/Bombay)
B. B. Suryawanshi (Dombivli)
B. Jha (Calcutta)
B. K. Karanjia (Mumbai/Bombay)
B. N. Chatterjee (Nagpur)
B. V. Dharap (Pune/Poona)
Baikit Singh Pesi (Ludhiana)
Bharat Bhushan Dost (Jamshedpur)
Bhim Raj Garg (B. R. Garg) (Delhi/Chandigarh)
Bibhash Chandra Mastana (Oalpuragaon/Olpura Gaon)
Biren Kothari (Vadodara)
C. M. Desai (Mumbai/Bombay)
Chand Khan Rehmani (Delhi)
Chandrahas Khadilkar (Sangli)
Chandrakant Makwana (U.K.)
Chandu Modi (Mumbai/Bombay)
D. S. Kanaujia (Madhogarh/Madhoganj, Hardoi/Kanpur)
Dhirajlal H. Andharia (Bhavnagar)
Dilip Thakur (Mumbai/Bombay)
Dr. C. R. Chandrasekhar (Dubai)
Dr. G. L. Shroff (U.K.)
Dr. Prakash V. Joshi (Prakash V.Joshi) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Dr. Rajesh Deshpande (Mumbai)
Dr. Surjit Singh (MI, USA)
Dr. V. B. Mathur (Delhi)
Firoze Rangoonwalla (Mumbai/Bombay)
G. C. Sharma (Kanpur)
Gauri Shanker Shukla (Delhi)
Ghafil Faizabadi (Allahabad)
Girish Chandegra (U.K.)
Girish Chandra Suman (Aligarh)
Gopal Chandra Gupta (Gopal Chand Gupta) (Barbil)
Gopal Prasad Gupta (Katihar)
Gorakh Prasad Gupta (Chaibasa)
Gulab Bhojnani (U.K.)
Gulshan Paamer (Muktsar/Muktasar)
Gurbachan Singh (Kanpur)
Gurcharan Singh Sandhu (U.K.)
Harish Raghuwanshi (Harish N. Raghuwanshi) (Surat)
Harshvadan S. Bhagatji (Harshvadan Bhagat) (Surat)
Hasmukh Dalwadi (Nagpur)
Hussaini Bhai (Hussainibhai) (Mumbai/Bombay)
J. P. Agrawal (Burnpur)
K. D. Seth Saxena (Delhi)
K. L. Shiv (Delhi)
Kailash Nath Jaiswal (Mumbai/Bombay)
Kaiyum A. Aziz (Kaiyyum A. Aziz) (Gondal)
Kamal Babu Gupta (Ganj Dundwara)
Kamal Sharma (Nagpur)
Kanwaljeet Sachdev (Kanwaljeet Singh Sachdev) (USA/Kanpur)
Kesarbai Shukla (Kanpur)
Kishore Lalwani (Jamnagar)
M. Rafiq (Essex, U.K.)
M. V. Gondhalekar (Poona)
Madhusudan H. Bhatt (Rajkot)
Mahendra Modi Videsia (Ramgarh Cantt.)
Mahesh Kumar Shukla (Lucknow)
Manjit Kaur (Kanpur)
Manujendra Bhanja (Calcutta)
Mohd. Kalim (Ganj Dundwara)
Mohd. Sher Afghan (Ganj Dundwara)
Mrs. Geeta Chatterjee (Nagpur)
Mrs. Kane (NFAI, Poona)
Mrs. Laxmi (NFAI, Poona)
Mrs. Satinder Kaur (Satinder Kaur) (Kanpur)
Mrs. Sulbha Ternekar (Pune)
Murlidhar Soni (M. D. Soni) (Jaipur)
N. P. Mulani (Narayan P. Mulani) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Nalin Shah (Mumbai/Bombay)
Nand Kishore (Kanpur)
Narayan K. Phadtare (Narayan K. Phadke) (Pune/Poona)
Naresh Chhatralia (U.K.)
O. P. Pandya (Indore)
P. K. Gupta (Delhi)
P. S. Jadeja (Pushpendra Singh Jadeja) (Rajkot)
P. S. Rathaur (Kanpur)
Pankaj Dwivedi & Friends (Kanpur)
Pankaj Kapadia (Mumbai/Bombay)
Paresh D. Dubey (Bombay)
Piyush Vyas (USA/Ahmedabad)
Prabhat Pandey (Varanasi)
Prabhakar M. Vyas (Bombay)
Prafulla D. Patel (Praful D. Patel) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Prasad C. Sinkar (Mumbai/Bombay)
Prashant Nawathe (Jabalpur)
Pritam Manghani (Pritam Menghani) (Ulhasnagar/Ulhas Nagar)
Raj Dogra (N. Delhi)
Raj Kumar Kukreja (Durg)
Rajendra Kumar Shukla (Kanpur)
Rajinder Singh Sagoo (U.K.)
Rajnikumar D. Pandya (Ahmedabad)
Raju Bharatan (Mumbai/Bombay)
Raju Shah (Mumbai/Bombay)
Rakesh Pratap Singh (Kanpur)
Ram Siddharth (New Bombay)
Ramesh Chandra Mishra (Kanpur)
Ramesh Rawal (Ahmedabad)
Ramesh Thanjorkar (Mumbai/Baroda)
Rashid Ahmed (Rashid Ahmad) (Kanpur)
Ratanlal Kataria (Kekri, Ajmer)
Ravinder Kaur (Kannauj)
S. S. Shukla (Kanpur)
Sanjit Narwekar (Mumbai/Bombay)
Sanjiv Lochan Naagar (Sanjeev Lochan Nagar) (Ratlam)
Sanjiv Tanwar (Sanjeev Tanwar) (N. Delhi)
Santosh Tiwari (Kanpur)
Satnam Kaur (Kanpur)
Satya Prakash Tyagi (Ghaziabad)
Shashikant D. Kinikar (S. D. Kinikar) (Pune/Poona)
Shashi Jariwala (Surat)
Sheel Kumar Sharma (Mumbai/Bombay)
Shirish Koyal (Bangalore)
Shiv Shanker Almal (Kolkata/Calcutta)
Shrikant Vakil (Nagpur)
Shyam K. Samant (Sham Samant) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Shyamala Kallianpur (Secunderabad)
Subhash Bhatt (Mumbai/Bombay)
Subhash Chheda (Mumbai)
Suleman Kherani (Jamnagar)
Suraj Prakash Tandon (U.K.)
Sushil Kumar Khatri (Kanpur)
Taranjeet Kaur (Australia)
Tarun Kaushal, A.C.J. (Nimad, M.P.)
Tejinder Miglani (Ludhiana)
Urvish Koathari (Urvish Kothari) (Mahemdavad)
V. A. K. Ranga Rao (Chennai/Madras)
V. Gandhi (Pune)
Veerbhadrasinh Jhala (Narwar)
Vijay A Nafre (Vijay A. Nafrey/Vijay A. Nafdey) (Mumbai/Bombay)
Vijay Bandekar (Mumbai/Bombay)
Vijaylaxmi Deseram (USA)
Vinod Sonthalia (Kolkata/Calcutta)
Vishwas P. Nerurkar (Mumbai/Bombay)
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