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Published: 31 October 2018

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You may remember Nargis saying Firpos! to a taxi driver in Raat Aur Din (167). Turns out that the nightlife at Firpos and Grand Hotel in Calcutta was known to all Westernized Indians in 1927.

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Published: 18 March 2018

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Since the film Jhoola (1941) is available, everybody knows that this song by Ashok Kumar inspired the one in Padosan. But very few probably know that the original was actually by Muhammad Hussain HMV P 426 Jan 1916.

Listen to 1941_jhoolaa_14_ik-chatur-naar.mp3

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Published: 05 May 2018

Last Updated: 05 May 2018

From a Report on Radio in India (1940):

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