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Another early version of Omar Khayyam's famous rubaayee

Listen to 1936_piyaa-kee-jogan_saaqee-ho-sahan-e-baaGh-ho.mp3

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Roberto 77a

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Satyajit Ray describes his experiences of seeing silent films in Calcutta theaters.

Ray silent era

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 Listen to Gunah Aur Qanoon (1970)

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The First Decade: summing up
   

           The Thirties - The first decade

The first decade can be summed up as the decade of the big
studios and their popular stars. And they did practically every-
thing that could be done. I will try to bring in some of the
things I failed to mention in the previous ten posts.

  1. Musing 344: Sunday Rafi 69
  2. Musing 405: Rafi 110, Soorat City
  3. Musing 293: Rakhi song, Rafi 31
  4. Musing 92: Gossip in 1949, Narsingh 695
  5. Musing 135: First song on screen, Roberto 71
  6. Musing 121: R C Boral, Narsingh 723
  7. Musing 237: Abbas and Censorship, Roberto 87
  8. Musing 302: Rafi in Trinidad, Rafi 40
  9. Musing 585: Narsingh 760. 50s-60s. V Shantaram and Vimalabai
  10. Musing 53: Laughter in song, Shera Daku (1966)
  11. Musing 386: taraanaa, Rafi 91
  12. Musing 84: Sahir Rupee 1 more, Narsingh 687 Tunes
  13. Musing 103: C H Atma as Saigal, Narsingh 705
  14. Musing 319: Gulab drugged, Rafi 57
  15. Musing 240: Parody song, Roberto 90