professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 112th book

Rare Gems Of Indian Music by

Nikhil Iyer

Over a period of time, the author had written various blogs about many artistes whose contribution have been immense. Some of the artistes have been largely forgotten, still they deserve an acknowledgment and we need to remember their contribution.
This book is a collection of various articles of Rare artistes, important statistics/song lists of many lyricists, singers and there are different aspects too written which we hope you will enjoy reading. It is based on the author's blog.

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 241 pages.

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As usual, first few pages may be read here

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is proud to announce their 111th book

Film Song Compilations Part I

by Girdharilal Vishwakarma

The author, a well-known collector from Jodhpur, has one of the largest collections of 78rpm gramophone records. After lot of research and hard work of 15 years he made compilations of 80 artists [music directors, singers and lyricists of Hindi Films]. These lists have 22,000 songs with full details based on authentic information.

This is Part I.

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 297 pages.

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As usual, first few pages may be read here

professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 89th book

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971 Part A

Kharag Singh
and
Professor Surjit Singh

 

In November 2022, I was surprised by an email from Kharag Singh from Ghatsila, Jharkhand informing me that he had captured thousands of pictures of Junior Artists and Background Dancers from hundreds of movies. He asked for my help in identifying them. I sent him books on these people published by me. He was very happy.

Naturally I asked him if he would help me with a similar project, he gladly agreed.I requested him to capture pictures of the cast from 1971-1980. Within days he stared sending me a large number of photos from movies. I realized that he is capturing so many photos that a book on 1971 alone will run to more than 500 pages! So we decided to split 1971 into three parts. This first one is for movies beginning with the letters A to H.

When you peruse the book you will realize that he has become an expert on recognizing obscure and small faces; obviously he has studied the books I sent him on Junior Artists and Group Dancers very thoroughly. I am proud to say that he can recognize people better and faster than me.

 

Paperback, 6 by 9, 130 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.

 

Now You Know!

 

As usual, the first few pages may be read here