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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 167th book

Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1975 Part A (A-D)

Kharag Singh
and
Professor Surjit Singh

How many times have you wanted to know how the actors in old movies looked like? Of course, we are all familiar with the famous ones, Saigal, Ashok Kumar, Lila Chitnis, Madhubala. But how about many others whose names appear in the film cast and filmographies? This book is an attempt put faces to their names. In this book we have 32 Hindi films from 1975, names beginning from A to D, and have captured almost 1,400 pictures of the cast.
We hope you will have fun looking at the pictures.

Paperback BW 234 pages 6 by 9.

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 168th book

Hindi Talkie Filmography (1941-1950)

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 1941 to 1950.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 247 pages

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA announces their 183rd book

Films and Shows in Bombay - 1935

Ajit Sidhu
and
Professor Surjit Singh
 
What is the year of the film? This question is often asked but it may surprise you to know that it has many answers. The most definite answer is the year mentioned on the censor certificate. This used to be hard to find. However, now the year and the whole censor information of Hindi films from 1931 to 2010 is available on the website

http://hamraaz.org/hfgk

There is no official publication for the release information. Also, this information changes from city to city as films having limited number of prints, cannot be released everywhere at once. Finding this information requires much more work. One can find it in the magazine reviews, magazine and newspaper ads, and, sometimes in the trade publications. All these sources are hard to come by.
Recently, SS and two of his co-workers published a book on the films running in the Madras theatres based on the Indian Express Newspaper (Madras Edition),

Films Showing in Madras Theatres (1941-1947), by MV Surender, N Ramaswamy and Prof Surjit Singh (2021)
 
In the book at hand, we present information about the stage shows, silents and talkies running in Bombay in 1935. We plan to cover the years 1931-1950 at least, another volunteer is working on 1941-1950. This information is based on the Bombay Chronicle newspaper available on the Internet Archive website.
It is fascinating to follow the life of many films, some run for a long time, some only a few weeks, some move to other theatres. We found this information to be enjoyable to work with and fascinating.
We hope that our readers will also enjoy this nostalgia-inspiring work.
 
Paperback US Letter, Black and White, 154 pages, color cover.

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