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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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I recently found out that a book on Telugu Film Songs and their information has been published. This is a monumental work by retired Mining Engineer from Vetapalam, now settled in Sydney, Australia. He kindly sent me a brochure of information about it. Here are the front and the back pages. The whole brochure may be downloaded or viewed here.
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NOTE: Available on lulu.com, Pothi.com
professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 162nd book
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast 1974 Part C (N-Z)
Kharag Singh
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Professor Surjit Singh
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