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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 99th book

Hindi Films: The Stars Of 1941-42 Films: Part 5

by

Sheo Khetan and Arunkumar Deshmukh

In this book the authors discuss the Early Talkie Era of Indian cinema (1941-1942). They introduce us to dozens of long-forgotten stars, their basic information, their life and their films. It is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures from books, magazines and films. This is Part 5 in the series.

Paperback, US Letter, 215 pages, Black and White.

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First few pages may be read here

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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 54th book

Films and Shows in Bombay - 1931

Ajit Sidhu
and
Professor Surjit Singh

A persistent question about Hindi (or Indian) films is when and where was it released? We have to depend on hearsay, I saw it in Minerva first day, first show, or, reviewers would mention the release info, or the newspapers ads would say, coming soon on such and such a date etc. Until now no reliable source had been available.

This project attempts to answer this question once and for all, at least for films released in Bombay. This first book is for the year 1931, the talkie year.

It is based on the daily, later weekly newspaper Bombay Chronicle, available on the Internet Archive. The lead author has looked at each ad in each issue to extract the relevant information in a tabular form. Date, film name, theater name, show times and any other relevant information is captured.  Since it is the first year of the talkies, it was thought prudent to write down information about silents films and even stage shows.

This is, of course, a part of the Master Database Project, and we do hope to gather information from the advent of the Silent cinema to all the available years.

[Note: A similar project on Madras theaters was undertaken by MV Surender and a book has been published.]

Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 107 pages. Rs 450 and $5.90 (International)

As usual, first few pages may be read here

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 61st and 62nd books by

Sheo Khetan.

In these books the author discusses the Early Talkie Era of Indian cinema (1932-1937). He introduces us to dozens of long-forgotten stars, their basic information, their life and their films. They are  fully illustrated with scores of pictures from books, magazines and films. These are Parts 2 and Part 3 in the series, Part 1 was issued earlier.

Hindi Films: The Stars of the 1932-37 Films
Hindi Film Stars Series: Part 2

Paperback, 402 pages, BW interior.

First few pages may be seen here.

Hindi Films: The Stars of the 1932-37 Films
Hindi Film Stars Series: Part 3

Paperback, 195 pages, BW interior.

First few pages may be seen here.

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