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If you have listened to very early recordings from 1905 or so by Gauhar Jan and others, you couldn't have missed how they say, My name is Gauhar Jan etc. Looks like it was done in filmi songs (and perhaps in the theater songs) too. Here is the earliest example I could find

  Listen to faulaadee-mukkaa_01_duniyaa-kee-karanee-bharanee-hai.mp3

THe singer clears says the name of the production company, the film name and the name of the character.

Now you know!


Listen to Tamanna (1969) 

Film magazines have been using gossip about stars for a long time. Here is an example from 1949. Notice the picture.

gossip

Now you know!


 Listen to Narsingh 695

Khurshid went to Pakistan with her first husband, Lala Yaqoob. I believe that this was a different Yaqoob.

 

Now you know!


Roberto 75a