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Started in 1999 for songs. Most people had songs from the 78 RPMs, so I decided to upload songs from video. The first film was Devdas (1935). Found a 45 second song that very few had heard before because no record was issued and film was hard to get. Soon other people started contributing. I was surprised that people did not know how character artists looked like, Jagdish Kanwal, Chandabai etc. So, I put up about 200 images of such forgotten people. On surfing the net I found this book about 40s actresses, Filmi Titliyan, I put up a pdf and later some magazines also.
Recently, I re-vamped the Main page.
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First of all let me clear up a confusion. Last time, I was talking about the song 'Badhai Hai' but the image shown was of the song 'Gazab Kiya' that showed Roopmala. Because of the confusion, people started telling me how Roopmala looked like and about well-known appearances of Roshan Kumari in films :)
What I mentioned in the text was that according to Richard Singer the dancer in 'Badhai Hai' is Roshan Kumari (daughter of the singer Zohrabai). Then Shefali Gandhi doubted that statement, but without telling me who that actually is. That made me look at the song again. Richard Singer has given a good explanation of why the 'Badhai Hai' dancer is Roshan Kumari. I feel safe saying the same.
Here are four images, three of Roshan Kumari, from filmfare (thanks Sudarshan Talwar), in Jalsaghar and Mirza Ghalib. The bottom right is from Waris 'Badhai Hai'.
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