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Published: 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 27 June 2018

So, June 26 was Gauhar Jan's birthday. The grand lie that she was the first Indian recording artist was repeated, again, ad nauseum. She absolutely was not the 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd, etc. The most authentic work, based on archival records, is the book, The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings 1899-1908, by Michael Kinnear sets the record straight. One can see from the first two pages of the 78 discography that the earliest recordings were done in London in 1899 and she was nowhere near it.

The recordist. F Gaisberg, then came to Calcutta in 1902 and did many more. Here are the next two pages. Gauhar Jan shows up on the last page.. Even discounting the London recordings, one can see that she is not even in the first 5.

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Published: 06 November 2017

Last Updated: 06 November 2017

If you have ever looked at ImDB, you know that movie goofs are of various kinds, things move between shots, crew or equipment visible, plot holes, anachronisms etc. Believe me, I have seen examples of all of them in Hindi films. Here is a guy wearing glasses in a film obviously set in some distant past mythical period (Bhaktraj 1960).

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Published: 17 March 2018

Last Updated: 17 March 2018

Here are the lyrics of the original version of 'inheen logon ne' recorded by Akhtari Jaan

Miss Akhtari Jaan P 3682 Daadraa

inheen logon ne le leenaa dupaTTaa meraa

na jaano bajajavaa se poochho

jis ne ashrafee gaz deenaa dupaTTaa meraa - inheen ...

na jaano rangarajavaa se poochho

jis ne gulaabee rang deenaa dupaTTaa meraa - inheen ...

na jaano more saiyaaN se poochho

jis ne uDaakai mazaa leenaa dupaTTaa meraa - inheen ...

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