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In the last musing I shared a photo given to me by Ajit Sidhu about the Silver Jubilee of the film Amrit Mantan (1934). I added the statement that it was the first Silver Jubilee talkie because I remembered reading it somewhere. Then Hrishikeh Arvikar commented that it was really Shyam Sunder (1932) starring Shahu Moduk, That film ran in Pune for 25 weeks in one theater.

Then Ajit Sidhu looked at her data from 1932 and found that the Hindi version of this film actually ran for 21 weeks from August 13 to December 31, 1932 at Westend Talkies. Unfortunately we do not have the Bombay Chronicle newspaper for the first three months of 1933. In April it was running in a different theater. It is quite possible that this movie ran in Bombay also for 25 weeks, therefore making it the first Hindi talkie to have Silver Jubilee. We are making efforts to get the first three months of Bombay Chronicle 1933.

Thank you Hrishikesh Arvikar! 

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in Khandan (1942) and Seeta Aur Geeta (1972).

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A brief excerpt from an interview in 1990. Courtesy Broadcast Imaging (Anmol Ratan Program).

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