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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
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Which one was Naushad's first song? Of course, there are many answers. But we can rule out non-filmi, because he did not do that until early 80s. So, filmi. First independent film was Prem nagar (1940). Turns out he had given music to a song, which was recorded before that. So,
Listen to 1941_kanchan_bataa-do-koee-kaun.mp3
Now you know!
Rafi 06
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Although Daal as in put has come many times, the daal that one eats appears for the first time. The word choolha, where the daal is made is there too, but it has come before.Song 5.
Now you know!
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