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Published: 03 June 2023

Last Updated: 03 June 2023

I am not sure Ms Alison Arnold failed to mention it but Anil BIswas also has a claim.

Kaustubh Pingle wrote in response to my first post

"HIREN BOSE said in a Filmfare issue of 1954 that Anil Biswas did it for the first time for "Dharam Ki Devi", where he was the singer and Kumar was the actor!
I can believe him because HB was the First person to import a playback machine in India in 1939."

I have also read this claim elsewhere.

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Published: 27 February 2023

Last Updated: 27 February 2023

Originally we had no plans to publish books based on the Hindi Film Geet Kosh Database Website. But some friends insisted that we do. So we started publishing books based on the information in the database. Frankly, there is nothing new in the books, all the info is already on the website. In addition, books probably are never going to be revised whereas the database is updated as soon as I receive new information, e g the recent Sabita Chatterjee case. Be that as it may, books have been published and will continue to be published.

Inadvertently, the book prices were not fixed properly and that led to some complaints. The problem has been corrected. The new prices are as below.

Book	Dollars	Rupees
Censor Certificate Information of Hindi Talkies (1931-2010), by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and Prof Surjit Singh (2021 English)	9.5	650
Censor Certificate Information of Hindi Talkies (1931-2010), by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and Prof Surjit Singh (2022 Hindi)	---	650
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-1960) by Har Mandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’ and Prof Surjit Singh (2022 English)	7.95	660
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-1960) by Har Mandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’ and Prof Surjit Singh (2022 Hindi)	---	785
Hindi Film Song Picturizations (1951-1960) by Prof Surjit Singh and Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' (2022)	7.95	650

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Published: 27 January 2024

Last Updated: 27 January 2024

Clearly not the one with Raj Kapoor. But before there were at least two. The Filmfare issue of Feb 27, 1970 says this:

Nargis described as the "new bright star" after an elder Nargis of silent films. Nargis, the first lady of the Indian screen, was to follow much later.

 

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