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As many people, including me, suspected the photo of Surendranath that I posted in the previous Musing was wrongly labeled. The surname 'Sen' was a mistake.
I was able to contact his son Kailash Surendranath on Whatsapp and he confirmed that he never used a last name. He also said that his grandfather called himself Pundit Ralia Ram Sharma, so that is their last name. But he re-iterated that nobody in the family has used the Sharma last name.
And he is definitely BA, not MA.
Here is his entry from the Indian Motion Picture Almanac & Who's Who (1953).
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In one of the pages I posted of Helen's letters, she was seen in an oriental make-up. Navnidhi Sharma asked if I knew which movie this is from. I did not know, so I asked my friends in RMIM. Vibhendu Tewary immediately replied that this was a Japanese make-up. And he produced the answer in a few minutes.
It turns out that it is from the dance sequence Aman Ka Farishta from the songless movie Hulchul (1971).
You may wonder why I did not know that. The answer is that I was in Pittsburgh from 1969 to 1975, and so missed lots of films, even the whole Rajesh Khanna craze, in which, I am told,
"shrieking college girls smeared his car with lipstick, wrote letters in blood, married his photograph. Once when he had fever, a group of college students spent hours taking turns to put ice water on his forehead in a photograph ..."
The first image from the Cine Blitz article, second from the video.
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