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Published: 14 December 2025

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I believe first comprehensive work on Indian was the films was the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen (1998). It has the biographies of film people, brief description of films in many languages and many rare pictures.

 

They describe how they got their information from many different sources and people. Many of these people and others have now written film Geet Koshes. Still many other people whose names are have not proceeded further.

 

I'm going to publish the list from the book hoping that some activity can be generated.

 

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Published: 05 December 2025

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This was compiled by Bhimraj Garg and published in 2019.

It was entitled Illustrated History of Punjabi Cinema 1935 to 1985. It is in English and in color. This was also styled on Hindi Film Geet Kosh and had similar information. There were three additional items. One, there were lots of color pictures. Two, the film release date was also given. Three, picturization information of songs was also provided.

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Published: 09 December 2025

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Compiled by Dilip Thakur, It contains information about 2,800 Marathi films from the year 1913-2013 (Silent and talkies). It is in Marathi.

It is called Shatakmahotsavi Chitrasampda 1913-2013.

It contains similar information as the Hindi Film Geet Kosh. In addition it has information about dialog, screenplay, sound, art, processing, playback singers and stills etc.

It does have song listing, but no information about the individual singers and records is provided.

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