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Published: 30 December 2025

Last Updated: 30 December 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 176th book

Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery VIII (T-Z)

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-S. This book covers T-Z.

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, 139 pages

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First few pages here

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Published: 27 December 2025

Last Updated: 27 December 2025

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA announces their 173rd 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.

A4 Size, Paperback, 118 pages.

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A few pages may be read here, as usual

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Published: 14 March 2026

Last Updated: 22 March 2026

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is thrilled to announce their book number 187

Pictorial Journey of Hindi Cinema - 1947

Sanjeev Tanwar

This interesting series of books with color posters, pictures and all kinds of other interesting information is like an illustrated mini encyclopedia of Hindi films. 

Sanjeev has put lots of effort into these and he has been publishing them for a while.

This is the international edition in US letter paper size in full color. 

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Some photos can be seen here