Since 1999

As everybody knows I'm usually working on many projects at the same time, and all of them are in my head or sometimes on a scratch paper, which I throw away later. A dear friend of mine suggested that I should actually write it down and make it public.

The main reason he said is that there might be an overlap, somebody else might be doing the same project. I personally do not mind if many people are working on the same project. After all there are two books on S D Burman, three on Rafi and two on K L Saigal!

However, I decided to follow his advice.

I am not including my finished projects because they are already listed in the Published Books area; all my projects lead to books in the end. So I have two tables, the first one indicates the projects that are active now, in other words people are actually working on them and they will result in books. The second table is the table of future or proposed projects, which are just ideas at this time, absolutely no work has been done on them. My humble request to everybody is that if anybody is working on any of these projects please let me know now by email etc.

ACTIVE

Films Shown in Bombay 1931-1940	Tables from Newspaper
Cine Diary, Birth Dates etc	Translation from Marathi
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971-	Capture images from video
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery A-	Capture images from Magazines
Radio Transcripts -	Convert blog to Book
All the crew from films	Capture information from video
Bela Bose Filmography	Capture images from video
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1931-1970	Capture images from video
Dev Anand Encyclopedia	Capture info from everywhere
Beete Hue Din	Convert blog to Book
Pandit Chand Fillmography	Capture images from video
Sheila Ramchandran Filmography	Capture images from video
Pankaj Mullick Filmography	Capture info from reliable sources
Kanaan Devi Filmography	Capture info from reliable sources
K L Saigal Filmography	Capture info from reliable sources
Many unfinished projects	Capture info from Newspaper
Films Shown in Bombay 1941-1950	Tables from Newspaper

FUTURE/PLANNED

Additional songs, music and dance sequences found while watching films	Capture information from video
Any legal/social trouble faced by producers	Capture info from reliable sources
Any records such as Silver Jubilee, etc. related with films	Capture info from reliable sources
Any remake of the film with new title, into other Indian or foreign films	Capture info from reliable sources
Awards won	Capture info from reliable sources
Cast and role played	Capture information from video
Child artists who rose to play the roles of hero, heroines, etc.	Capture info from reliable sources
Film stories or songs based on non-Indian sources	Capture info from reliable sources
Films in which hero and/or heroine pass away in the middle/end of the film	Capture information from video
If the film was made into many languages	Capture info from reliable sources
If this is a remake of a foreign film	Capture information from video
If this is a remake/dubbed from other Indian film	Capture information from video
Incidents occurred during film shooting, etc.	Capture info from reliable sources
Incidents occurred with the actors during or after shooting like getting married, injured or died, etc.	Capture info from reliable sources
Memorable scenes, dialogues, etc. of the films	Capture information from video
Non-characteristic things, lyricist/director/cameraman appearing in film	Capture information from video
Other trivia, such as debut film, first CinemaScope film, etc.	Capture info from reliable sources
Photo gallery of each film comprising booklet cover page, still photographs, photographs of film related personalities	Capture info from reliable sources
Shooting locales, type of cars used, special animals used, etc. as found in films	Capture information from video
Song raga, instruments used, musicians names, etc.	Capture info from reliable sources
Songs picturised on the artists	Capture information from video
Story synopsis, full text of songs extracted from the booklets	Capture info from reliable sources