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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
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 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, 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
Now You Know!
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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 76th book
Hindi Talkies (1951-1960) 78RPM Records Information in HINDI
Har Mandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’
Professor Surjit Singh
This book is based on the Database Website and is the 7th book in Hindi.
Here we have a table of the 78RPM records arranged by the Record Number, year, film, song, singer for 1951-1960.
Starts with
A-1001 1954 Mahaboobaa महबूबा 2. आते जाते आंख बचाना ... हाय रे तेरा जवाब नहीं (भाग-1) मु रफ़ी, शमशाद बेगम
and ends with
VE 2602 1952 Yaatrik यात्रिक 8. मीरा कहे बिना प्रेम से नहिं मिले नंदलाला, प्रीत करना चाही बिनोता चक्रवर्ती
It is in HINDI, paperback, US Letter, 301 pages.
First few pages may be read here
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