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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 52nd book
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1961-70)
Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
and
Prof Surjit Singh
This book is a sister project, part of the much larger project undertaken by the two of us, with the help of many volunteers. Full details of the project can be seen on the main website
http://hamraaz.org/hfgk/index.php
The project is an outgrowth of the massive Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1980-) series of books compiled by the first author. The website is planned to contain all the data in the Geet Kosh, suitably expanded and revised by including the latest information.
The whole history of the Geet Kosh may be read in the My Story section of the above-mentioned website. It is felt unnecessary to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that after the pioneering work of Firoze Rangoonwalla and BV Dharap, Geet Kosh was a unique and original compilation work expanding the earlier work in many directions.
The database on the website is divided into three section for convenience. The Censor Certificate section has the information about the censored films. The Filmography section has the information about film production and other details. The Song section has detailed information about the songs.
It is a work in progress.
This book is based on the Filmography Section of Hindi Talkies Feature Films from 1961 to 1970.
In addition to the main cast, which is available here and there, we have also included the Junior Artists and Group Dancers for each film, if the video is available.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 232 pages. Rs 520 and $8.50 (International)
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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
Now You Know!
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 50th book
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1961-70) (HINDI)
Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
and
Prof Surjit Singh
हिन्दी सवाक् फ़िल्मोग्राफ़ी (1961-1970)
हर मन्दिर सिंह 'हमराज़'
और
प्रोफ़ेसर सुरजीत सिंह
This book is a sister project, part of the much larger project undertaken by the two of us, with the help of many volunteers. Full details of the project can be seen on the main website
http://hamraaz.org/hfgk/index.php
The project is an outgrowth of the massive Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1980-) series of books compiled by the first author. The website is planned to contain all the data in the Geet Kosh, suitably expanded and revised by including the latest information.
The whole history of the Geet Kosh may be read in the My Story section of the above-mentioned website. It is felt unnecessary to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that after the pioneering work of Firoze Rangoonwalla and BV Dharap, Geet Kosh was a unique and original compilation work expanding the earlier work in many directions.
The database on the website is divided into three section for convenience. The Censor Certificate section has the information about the censored films. The Filmography section has the information about film production and other details. The Song section has detailed information about the songs.
It is a work in progress.
This book is based on the Filmography Section of Hindi Talkies Feature Films from 1961 to 1970.
English Edition coming soon.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 311 pages. Rs 650.
As usual, first ten pages may be read here
Now You Know!
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