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Published: 12 October 2017

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In this song from Romantic India, sung by Noor Jehan (Sr) who later character-acted in such films as Anarkali (1953), after the dialog I am hearing Piano, the earliest song in which I clearly can recognize it.

Listen to 1936_Romantic-India_sunaa-do-prem-kee-meeThee-taan.mp3 

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 Listen to Chhaila Babu (1967)

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Published: 25 June 2018

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Here is waht the then Director, National Film Archives of India, Pune, had to say in the Foreword to the very first volume of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh. The 'artwork' on the page is by my 1.5 year old son, Prof Jaideep Singh, now at the Michigan State University. Lansing, Michigan, USA..

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Rafi 44

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Published: 22 May 2018

Last Updated: 22 May 2018

An excellent book on the 25 year history (1970-1995), of Music, Dance, Theater and Cinema from all over India, written by dozens of experts, with dozen board members. It covers all of the provinces, is in 2 volumes, has more than 700 pages. Ravi Shankar, B D Garg and Snajit Narwekar are contributors, among others.

It pains me to report that they put a photo of a person definitely not K L Saigal and labeled it as such. Amazing that so many qualified people could not see that. The writer of this particular article was born in 1918, must have seen at least one photo of Saigal somewhere.

Abhay Jain, Mothers' Day 2010