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Details: Published: 12 November 2022; Last Updated: 12 November 2022

Hindi Film Geet Kosh Volume 4 (1961-1970) (in Hindi) revised edition has been recently published, 36 years after the first edition. I am busy converting it into English and preparing it for the Database website.

In the cast of the above film I saw, "... अजीत से..., मास्टर सुरेश, भीमजी भाई, फ़ज़लू, मु......, पुष्पा ..."

So, I asked Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' what he means by Ajeet Se... and Mu.... . He replied that it was so in the booklet and he sent me a page from the booklet with this story.

"I got xerox copies of some booklets of fifties and sixties through Dr. Prakash Joshi, Mumbai, long back say in early eighties. Dr. Joshi borrowed the bound set of booklets from his friend with the condition that binding would be kept intact. I offered to open the binding, make out xerox properly and get the same rebound at my cost. But no luck. So, whatever could be collected, I got from Dr. Joshi. There may be about 30-35 such booklets. 3-4 booklets created such problems but for rest, I was able to get missing information from other available sources. There are many such anecdotes which I won't ever forget."

So, friends, please please please, if you have the booklet of this film, please send me us copy so that we are able to put the complete information on the Database Website.

Now You Know!

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Details: Published: 28 November 2021; Last Updated: 28 November 2021

Although Upendra did the hard work of collecting the filmographies of hundreds of unsung artistes, the whole business of trying to identify them began in the Facebook group

THOSE WHO COUDNT MAKE IT BIG BUT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITH OUT THEM

The group is run by him and Dr Ramnath Iyer Ashok as co-admins. This is the group where many juniors were identified.

In the acknowledgement section of his books, Upendra writes,

"... but also Ramnath Ashok Iyer for making me focus not just on the most prominent junior artists but rather every one we could spot and see and Saul George for his great memory that has brought to the front many names of junior artists that would otherwise be lost."

Dr Ramnath Iyer Ashok, besides his regular work, is involved in lots of other activities. Here is one of them.

Saul George started as a junior in 1963 and worked in the industry until the 80s.