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Details: Published: 13 August 2025; Last Updated: 13 August 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 155th book,

Version Records in Hindi Films - A Catalog

Balaji Murthy

"Version records" refers to a practice of cover versions on rival labels of the original 78 rpm records. They generally feature different singers and in-house orchestras of these rival labels. In Hindi films, the version records on 78 rpm records appeared quite early, starting in the early 1940s and lasted all the way to about 1960, though a few of them were also issued on the 45 rpm EPs on Vinyl.

This book is an effort to catalog all the known versions on 78 rpm records. Detailed listings include the film names and the song titles along with the record number and the labels issuing the version records. Many record images are included to illustrate the practice.

Hope this compilation will find a place in the bookshelves of students and enthusiasts of Hindi film music.

Paperback US Letter, Black and White, 96 pages, color cover.

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Details: Published: 02 December 2024; Last Updated: 02 December 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 132nd book

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1971 Part C

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 almost 500 pages! So we decided to split 1971 into many parts. This third and last one is for movies beginning with the letters N to Y.

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, 172 pages, BW interior, Color Cover.

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Details: Published: 01 September 2024; Last Updated: 01 September 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA announces their 118th book

Hindi Film Song Picturizations (1931-1940) by

Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'

Prof Surjit Singh

Sadly, only 40 movies are available to watch for this decade and we have provided song picturization info for the main actors and also others present in the 393 songs from these 40 movies by watching them carefully.

Happily, 'Hamraaz' had collected thousands of film booklets and many of them have song picturization information. That has been used for another 3,546 songs from another 436 films.

It should be noted here that the picturization information from the booklets is very rare and it is available on the database website both in Hindi and English.

Appeal: Please if you have information about this decade that is not the website, share with us so that the Hindi Film and Film Music lovers can benefit.

US Letter Size, Paperback, 249 pages.

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