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professor toofaanii publishers is honored to announce their 70th book
Hindi Film Geet Kosh Saga of Compiler's Odyssey in HINDI
by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
(Edited by Prof Surjit Singh)
The Compilers' story of 50 years of hard work, in his own words, in HINDI. This is how it started,
"The story is old but not more than 10 years as my age is less than 28 years. Readers can consider this as an interesting story as well.... During 1969-70 as a new regular listener of the programmes of Radio Ceylon, I used to participate in it as well. At that time, along with other programmes, I had a special interest in a programme named ‘Vaakya Geetanjali’. The announcer would announce a meaningful sentence of 7-8 words and wanted the listeners to provide the songs starting from each word of that sentence. Instead of worrying about my name to be announced amongst the listeners who sent correct solution of this puzzle, my interest was more on whatever songs I had quoted were found correct or not. Thus, one can say that indirectly, the thought of a ‘Geet Kosh’ generated from this practice. I used to compile songs in alphabetical order. Volume of compilation thus started increasing slowly day by day. Whenever I used to come across a difficult word in the ‘Vaakya Geetanjali’ programme for which I couldn’t make out a song, I used to get restless. Then I thought as to why not a systematic compilation of Film/Non Film songs produced till date be made. As soon as this thought struck to me, I started focusing more on the compilation of songs. When this idea of compiling the songs related information struck to me, I didn’t think it to be difficult. The compilation work had thus started."
Paperback (HINDI), 6 by 9, 68 pages.
First few pages may be read here
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 90th book
Films and Shows in Bombay - 1932
Ajit Sidhu
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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 second book is for the year 1932.
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.
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. Also another similar book on 1941 by N Ramaswamy has been published.]
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 146 pages.
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 57th book
PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA 1951
Sanjeev Tanwar
A compilation of Hindi film posters of the year 1951. A collector's item. Year-wise collection of posters, cover page images of booklets, still photographs, etc. for the pleasure of re-visiting the Golden Era of the Silver Screen. The PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA-1951 covers all posters of Hindi films made in 1951.
Sanjeev Tanwar is a native of Delhi. After completing his school and college education, he joined the Shri Ram Centre For Arts And Culture in 1996 to pursue his keen interest in theatre and writing. In 1998, he earned his diploma in acting.
He has translated many important works of English literature into Hindi - 'The Time Machine' (H G Wells), 'Man & Superman' (G B Shaw), 'Adolf Hitler' (James Bunting), 'Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 'Old Man & The Sea' (Ernest Hemingway).
While at the Shri Ram Centre, he wrote the play 'Chuna Ek Murga Beeti' based on ashort story by Sharad Joshi. His other dramatic works include - 'Hitler, Ek Marta Hua Sapna', 'The Court is Adjourned', 'Kishnuli' (based on a story by Shivani), 'Lolita' (based on the novel by the same name by Vladimir Nabokov).
As an ardent lover of cinema, he has to his credits the compilation 'Tujhe Mere Geet Bulate Hain' (2015), a complete filmography of Bharat Vyas, and two books on Hindi Film posters, 'Pictorial Journey of Hindi Cinema 1939' and 'Pictorial Journey of Hindi Cinema 1940'.
US Letter size, paperback, Color, 106 pages, $12.95
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As usual, first 10 pages may be seen here
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