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Published: 18 September 2017

Last Updated: 18 September 2017

Listen to song 3 of Chhaya (1936) from Jodhpurwale Girdharilal Vashwakarma here

rakhiyaa bandhaavo bhaiyaa

Not sure if this is the first ever, but surely the earliest rakhi song that I have heard.

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Published: 18 December 2017

Last Updated: 18 December 2017

In spite of all the evidence I am presenting that the silent and early film makers already did lots of stuff, some people may remain non-believers. Well, here are the two opening pages of an actual shooting script for an actual silent film Gul-e-Nakawali (Kohinoor, 1924). The whole script is about 160 hand-written pages.

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Published: 04 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

It was a common device in old novels that a person participates in a radio program or a newspaper competition in order not to be found. I think it happens in one of Premchand's novels. Here Saigal is hiding his identity

Listen to 1938_Street-Singer_jeevan-been-madhur-na.mp3

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