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Background Dancers in Hindi Films (1952-68)
Edwina Violette
Narsingh Agnish
Professor Surjit Singh
professor toofaani publishers is happy to announce their 19th book.
It is paperback, 106 pages, 6"x9", black and white with color cover. First 20 pages may be read below.
Until a few years ago most of did not know Edwina Violette (or Edu, as her fans call her) by name. We only knew her as a background dancer in many Hindi songs. Famously, in the song ‘O Hasina Zulfonwali Jane Jahan’ from Teesri Manzil (1966) she appears in the beginning shaking her head and flaunting her long hair, before settling down on the letter C of the giant ROCKY sign. Thanks to the efforts of famous blogger Greta Kaemmer (of her blog memsaabstory), the world ‘discovered’ her. One of us (SS) was so thrilled that he wrote his first book on Hindi films, Edu’s biography.
In preparation for the book, SS watched more than one hundred videos of her (put together by Tom Daniel), he was struck by the other faces in the background who danced in many of these songs. It occurred to him that a book should be written about them while we can still identify them.
So, SS requested his friend Narsingh D Agnish to watch all the videos and capture still images of her co-dancers. He painstakingly captured almost 1,000 images, of which about 500 were selected to be sent to Edu by email. She responded promptly identifying most of them and writing little notes about them in the bargain!
We have selected about 300 of those images for this book. We are thrilled that we have been able to put names to about 100 faces of her friends.
All three of us loved working on this book, we hope you will enjoy it too and have the excitement of saying, “I know her, she is Pamela, Edu’s best friend. Or, I recognize him, he is Terence, Edu’s brother!”
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 31st book,
The Bitter-Sweet Cocktail
Movies, Music, Wine, Women
The Life and Times of
C. Ramchandra
by
Dilip Shripad Phansalkar
Paperback, 6 by 9, 130 pages, black and white
The author is a veteran, retired Indian journalist with over 35 years’ experience in the profession. He has worked for various reputed newspapers and lifestyle magazines. He is married to Vinaya, with two daughters Shilpa (teacher) and Deepti (lawyer) and grand-daughter Annette. He resides in Mumbai, India.
This a biography of the celebrated music director C Ramchandra based his Marathi autobiography. The year of birth and death of famous Indian personalities, wherever possible, has been added. A special mention has been made of the music maestro’s musical milestones and other trivia. Many rare pictures related to him and pictures of Suraiya from her personal collection are also included.
FLIPKART
AMAZON INDIA
POTHI.COM
NOTIONPRESS.COM
International Edition
The first 20 pages may be read here. To read please click on one page and read one at a time.
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professor toofaanii publishers is happy to announce their 15th book
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast (1938-1940)
by Sheo Khetan (it is his second non-technical book) and Prof Surjit Singh (it is his 10th book and 8th on Hindi cinema)
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. We have taken 21 Hindi films whose videos are in our collection and captured pictures of the cast and included more than 500 pictures.
Black and White, paperback, color cover, 104 pages, with Table of Contents and Index.
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Paperback on Pothi India
First 20 pages can be seen here
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