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Her biographical information from a yearbook published in the 50s.

 

 

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Let us go over it again. Note SS is me.

In preparation for the book, SS watched more than one hundred videos of her (put together by Tom Daniel), he was struck by the other faces in the background who danced in many of these songs. It occurred to him that a book should be written about them while we can still identify them.

So, SS requested his friend Narsingh D Agnish to watch all the videos and capture still images of her co-dancers. He painstakingly captured almost 1,000 images, of which about 500 were selected to be sent to Edu by email. She responded promptly identifying most of them and writing little notes about them in the bargain!

We have selected about 300 of those images for this book. We are thrilled that we have been able to put names to so many faces of her co-dancers.

All three of us loved working on this book, we hope you will enjoy it too and have the excitement of saying, “I know her, she is Pamela, Edu’s best friend. Or, I recognize him, he is Terence, Edu’s brother!”

 

It was supposed to be a gift for her 80th birthday, but we announced it earlier because of her India trip.

 

 

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When I first heard this song from Ek Thi Ladki (1949) on Radio Ceylon on the morning show while going to school in the late fifties I had a vague feeling that I had heard it before. I kept thinking about it and other vague memories came back. I talked to my father, he corroborated and clarified. He said it was very popular and was playing everywhere, and, definitely during my uncle's wedding in 1950 all day!
Of course, being just 3 years old, I had no idea about films, singers, music, etc. But I do remember that I liked it and also sang along without understanding much of it.
Lata Didi and I go way back.
 
Here is a snippet of her recording from a documentary on Rajesh Khanna (BBC, 1973).
 
 
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