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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 115th book
Hindi Film Reviews (1931-1950) by
Arunkumar Deshmukh
The author has been writing reviews on about 800 films that he saw over the years. During the 40s and the early 50s, many films of the 30s were shown as Morning shows in theatres at reduced rates. He tried hard not to miss them. He saw many films in Nepal and Dhaka. He saw "New Theatre Film Festival" in Calcutta twice. In Bombay there were "Prabhat Film Festival" and "Minerva Film Festival". He attended them and saw films many of which are no longer easily available.
These reviews are based on his notes, writings and many references.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 126 pages.
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 119th book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery IV (M)
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 earlier books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-L. This book covers M.
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, 131 pages
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 138th book, the long awaited Part 2 in English
Beete Hue Din Part-2
Forgotten Memories of Hindi Cinema)
Interviews with Actors of the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema
Shishir Krishna Sharma
Huge amount of information is available about Hindi films on the internet. Unfortunately, not all of it is reliable. Mistakes range from honest clerical errors to outright made-up interviews with famous people. In this book the author describes his real interactions with Hindi film actresses who were active in the 40s to 60s. Most had been away from the industry for a long time and were living anonymously. The author made great effort to seek them out and interviewed them. He has obtained much rare and authentic information, clarifying many misconceptions and finding elaborations of other well-known facts about them. We hope that the readers will enjoy reading about them as much as the author has writing about the interviews.
Paperback, black and white, 134 pages, 6 by 9 size.
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