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Published: 29 January 2022

Last Updated: 29 January 2022

In the movies of late 40s and early 50s, you will find Raj Kapoor's younger brother Shashi Kapoor playing childhood roles. But in many movies you will be surprised that he is NOT there!  Internet websites are of no help at all. Puzzle can be solved by reading the book,

Forgotten Artists of Early Cinema and The Same Name Confusion by Arunkumar Deshmukh,

where he informs us about an entirely different Shashi Kapoor. He acted in more than 20 film still 1955, when he quit films.

Bhakt Dhruv (1947) and Veer Babruvahan (1950).

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Published: 15 May 2022

Last Updated: 15 May 2022

When that Julie song (My Heart is Beating) came, many ignorant people said that that was the first English song in a Hindi film. Many websites still say that.

People with a little more knowledge pointed to the poem read by Shanta Apte in Duniya Na Mane (1937) and many people still believe that.

However, people who have the first volume of Hindi Film Geet Kosh know that the first English song in a Hindi film is from Karma (1933) sung by Devika Rani. All songs of this film, including the English song, can be heard here (in the Girdharilal Vishwakarma Collection)

Karma and other songs

Disclaimer: We know that full information of Indian films is not available, many early films are lost, records were not made, magazines and books do not mention every single film ever certified, therefore, the first of anything must remain tentative, as of now, based on the present information.

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Published: 16 November 2021

Last Updated: 16 November 2021

Edwina and her 4 sisters have two brothers. The elder one is Terence Lyons, very active. He had a band called Ted Lyons and His Cubs that showed up in many films.

Here he is in Do Ustad (1959) with Madhubala, Pamela, Edu.

Also with his grandson Christian (2016). He lives in Australia.

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