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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 109th book
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1931-40)
Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
and
Prof Surjit Singh
This book is a sister project, part of the much larger project undertaken by the two of us, with the help of many volunteers. Full details of the project can be seen on the main website
http://hamraaz.org/hfgk/index.php
The project is an outgrowth of the massive Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1980-) series of books compiled by the first author. The website is planned to contain all the data in the Geet Kosh, suitably expanded and revised by including the latest information.
The whole history of the Geet Kosh may be read in the My Story section of the above-mentioned website. Suffice it to say that after the pioneering work of Firoze Rangoonwalla and BV Dharap, Geet Kosh was a unique and original compilation work expanding the earlier work in many directions.
The database on the website is divided into three section for convenience. The Censor Certificate section has the information about the censored films. The Filmography section has the information about film production and other details. The Song section has detailed information about the songs.
It is a work in progress.
This book is based on the Filmography Section of Hindi Talkies Feature Films from 1931 to 1940.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 195 pages.
As usual, first ten pages may be read here
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 103rd book
Anjaanee Chaah, A Novel (in HINDI)
by
Geetanjali Geet and Lalit Berry.
"One never knows when situations in life take turns, when invisible rays become visible, when one has to mould oneself at the insistence of family members especially kids."
Paperback 6 by 9, Black and White, 99 pages, color cover
Now You Know!
First few pages may be read here
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 107th book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery III (K-L)
N Ramaswamy
Professor Surjit Singh
Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.
Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.
There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.
In the first two books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-J. This third book covers K-L.
We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.
Paperback, 6 by 9, 148 pages
Now You Know!
First few pages here
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