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Well-known star of Ranjit in Tarasundari

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Mr Parikh was a Vaishnav Gujarati and Miss Lakdawala was Bohra Muslim.

Their families disapproved of the match but they got married anyway on August 1st 1941 in a civil court.

Their common friend Ayub hosted a celebration at Purohit, a vegetarian restaurant with close friends.  

Asha Parikh was born on Oct 2, 1942. Slowly the families relented and everything was OK.

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I had borrowed this book from a library in 2011 and scanned about one half of it and put it on my website. 

I have now scanned all of it and have uploaded it on the Internet Archive website.

It is a really very good directory, gives you a snapshot of the film industry in India and neighboring countries in 1952.

I hope it'll be useful to researchers.

Here is the link

Asian Film Directory And Who's Who 1952 by V Doraiswamy

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