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Details: Published: 03 January 2026; Last Updated: 03 January 2026

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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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Details: Published: 24 December 2025; Last Updated: 31 December 2025

All the members of the staff at the headquarters of professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI, USA, all the way from the top, CEO to the lowly peon including the CTO, COO, middle mangers, and, dilberts, are super excited and honored to announce their 171st book. Our CEO has been trying to do this for the last 11 years, his persuasive powers finally succeeded!

The book is the international imprint of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh, Volume–4 (1961-1970), Third Revised and Updated Edition, by the legendary compiler Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'.

The book is now available for international readers from the following link

HFGK VOL 4 (3rd Ed)

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Details: Published: 25 December 2025; Last Updated: 25 December 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA announces their 172nd book

Hindi Song Picturizations (1941-1950) by

Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'

Prof Surjit Singh

Sadly, only 143 movies are available to watch for this decade and we have provided song picturization info for the main actors and also others present from these movies by watching them carefully.

Happily, 'Hamraaz' had collected thousands of film booklets and many of them have song picturization information. That has provided additional information.

US Letter Size, Hindi Paperback, 153 pages.

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A few pages may be read here, as usual