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Published: 06 June 2018

Last Updated: 06 June 2018

The problem of black marketing in cinema tickets and a solution, from 1946

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Published: 17 June 2019

Last Updated: 17 June 2019

Illustrated History of Punjabi Cinema (1935-1985)

I heard about Bhim Raj Garg from Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' in the early 90s. He has been working on Panjabi Film Geet Kosh, now expanded to include pictures ans renames, Illustrated History of Punjabi Cinema. Later I kept running into his name in various publications and articles that had to do with the history of Punjabi cinema. For example, the famous Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Willemen and Rajadhyaksha (1999) credit only his name for all the information on Punjabi Cinema. Here is a story of his quest and a few sample pages from the book.

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Published: 30 November 2017

Last Updated: 30 November 2017

Very few people know that G N Joshi, an employee of the HMV since 1938 was responsible for persuading many famous classical music gurus to have their music recorded. His book Down Melody Lane is full of anecdotes. In one instance he details how HMV cheated a new record company called Young India by recording their music as version music and packaging very similarly. Gulshan Kumar did the same to them years later!

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