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Published: 10 January 2024

Last Updated: 10 January 2024

When I first announced that I am collecting all the information from the classic RMIM and writing a book, I called it RMIM Omnibus, because ii would contain everything.

But when I started looking at the material, oh wow!

We have generated thousands of relevant posts, hundreds of articles, thousand of song lyrics, hundreds of quizzes like Rim Jhim Geeton Ki, Chitrahar, etc, and dozens of individual series like A Sher A Day, Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon, Fill in the Blanks, to name a few. All this would have come to thousands of pages.

But, promise is a promise.

What I plan to do is a series of books on different topics, about 200-300 pages each. I will make the pdfs available for free to download and also have the paperbacks to buy on Amazon and Pothi.

I am starting with the Articles, there will be 3-4 books on Articles, the first one is on Singers.

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Published: 16 February 2024

Last Updated: 16 February 2024

A grave error was committed by one of the authors (me) in omitting this special acknowledgment page. I regret the error. The book is

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971 Part A

Kharag Singh
and
Professor Surjit Singh

If you have already bought the book, please print this page and glue it between pages 4 and 5. I have already submitted the revised manuscript, please wait for a few days for it to take effect.

Here is page 4a, Special Acknowledgment

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Published: 08 October 2023

Last Updated: 08 October 2023

Thanks to the remarks by Vivek Kumar and Arunkumar Deshmukh on my Facebook post, it is clear that there were two Dinshaw Billimorias. First one started out as an actor, then became a color film technician in Film City under JFH van der Auwera. [Incidentally his elder brother Eddie was also an actor, later character artist.] The second one started out as an assistant to Chandrakant Pandya as a recordist and then becoming one himself, winning the Filmfare awards for Bandini and Agent Vinod.

Harish raghuwanshi in his book, 'Inhen na Bhulana' writes that the actor Dinshaw worked in the Sound Department of Film Center in the beginning.

So, which one is the assistant in Aurat (1940)? It turns of that the Chief Sound Recordist for that Mehboob film is Chandrakant Pandya. So, it is reasonable to assume that it is the second one, who was never an actor.

The documents have small print, and, may be difficult to read as images on cell phones, so, I combined them into a pdf.
The Filmlfare one is from my collection, the other two are given by Vivek Kumar. Thank you very much Vivek Kumar!

DINSHAW DOCS

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New 22. Dekha Karo Bhagwan Ghareebon Ka Tamasha.