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I consider myself to be a well-read person about Indian cinema history. I have read practically all the books and articles written about it since the thirties.
So, it was a shock to learn about this young inventor from Jabalpur, who all by himself learned about color photography and cinematography. He communicated with the best color laboratories in the world in the 50s. He did enough independent work to get three patents awarded for this work by the Indian Patent Office. He even corresponded with Prem Adib about making commercial use of his process. Unfortunately, delays happened, Prem Adib passed away and the foreign companies with established processes and laboratories took over and dominated, specially from the mid-60s.
His story has been written in a book by the inventor's son Dr P S Shrivastava, who kindly sent me a copy of his book. His contact info is:
Cell Phone: 9303106209
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Here is the cover page:
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In the previous Musing, I showed a photo saying that Shankar-Jaikishan are the music directors of the Indo-British Production 'Tarzan Goes To India (English)'. I also showed screen caps from the actual DVD of the film that showed the music director to be Ken Jones with no mention of SJ.
I knew that if I make a 'bad' statement about SJ, their cult followers will come after me with pitchforks and axes, so instead of saying that 'SJ had nothing to do with the music of this film', I was careful to say that SJ were hired but they are not listed, I have no idea what happened.
Then Sandeep Apte posted a page from a Hindi film 'Tarzan Mera Sathi (Hindi)' that showed both Ken Jones and SJ as music directors. Later, I found that the Hindi Film Geet Kosh has listed the film in Volume 5.
So, SJ definitely gave music (jointly with Ken Jones) to the Hindi film, it remains unclear what they did for the English film.
Unfortunately, a video of the film is not available to me and the two songs were not issued on records, so the songs are only in the video. It would be nice to hear the songs or/and see the film.
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Recently I bought the book, "Dancing Women Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" by Prof Usha Iyer, published by the Oxford University Press. Happy to see my book on Edwina being referenced.
That n.p. apparently means No Place. You see I have been writing
professor toofaani publishers
as the publisher. In all new books, I am writing
professor toofaani publishers, Lansing, MI US
so that people who give references can write a place name also.
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