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Published: 02 December 2025

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N.  Ramaswamy and I have been trying to find information about Film Geet Koshes other than the ones we already know. For example we know about Geet Koshes in Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Rajasthani. We have found a few more. I will be mentioning them here.

Let us start with Tamil, Tamil Cinema World by Akhila Vijayakumar.

It contains complete information about Tamil films from 1931 to 1950. Apart from what we are used to seeing in Hindi Film Geet Kosh eg, he has also added much more information like story, dialog, dances, cinematography, etc. it appears that he is connected with the Tamil film industry. He is working on other volumes.

It is in Tamil, sample pages and ordering information follows.

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Published: 27 November 2025

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Professor Neepa Majumdar, Director of Graduate Studies for the Film and Media Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, came to the Michigan State University, East Lansing, to give a lecture on fandom, nonfiction impulses, and videographic approaches to star studies. It was very well presented with many video examples from Hollywood and Bollywood.

We have known each other for a while but this is the first time I met her in person.

After the lecture I mentioned to her that I understood her video film examples very well, but I understood her film theory probably as much as she would have understood a lecture on Higgs Boson!

She nodded and smiled.

Then we had a mini RMIM meeting.

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Published: 07 October 2025

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Yesterday I was discussing some topics of mutual interest with Sanjeev Tanwar, He mentioned this point. 

Film censorship in British India existed before the censor certification boards were installed. This earlier censorship was done by local police departments, impossible to find their records. Interestingly, the whole films were banned. They were mostly worried about the damage done to image of British and American woman through foreign films! Of course, in the early days foreign films shown in India were much more in number than the Indian films, because the Indian industry was just starting out.

Here is the first page of the Evans report from 1921.

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