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Published: 01 December 2021

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I have seen poster printers credited a few times in old films, but this is the earliest I am seeing actual creative people named.

From Ujala (1959).

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Published: 08 October 2021

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We have seen earlier that this term was used in 1932 and 1938

Musing 44: Tollywood in 1932

Musing 696: Tollywood in 1938

You may be surprised to now that at least one Punjabi film was made in Tollywood!

The image is from the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Punjabi Films by B R Garg.

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Published: 10 December 2021

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I found out that Ali Peter John (Retired Editor Screen Weekly) hates the term. He mentioned that Amit Khanna claimed to invented it. When I asked for the earliest use of the term in print from my Facebook friends, Pavan Jha, who knows everything, and whatsmore remembers everything, mentioned its first appearance in an Inspector Ghote mystery by H R F Keating. It can be seen on page 40 here.

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