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The first silver jubilee talkie in India is Amrit Manthan (1934) by Prabhat. The term was coined by Prabhat distributor Baburao Krishnarao Pai. Film ad photo thanks to Ajit Sidhu and BR pai photo from a book published in 1938. 

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The purpose of thus note is to provide an addendum to the published version of Hindi Film Geet Kosh-VI (1981-1985).

The media information is given in footnotes. For example for the film AAHISTAA AAHISTAA we see

1 to 8 (LP : 2392 288); 3D/2, 5 (EP : 2221 578), 7D/6, 2 (EP : 2221 579); 1D/4, 8 (EP : 2221 580).

Here the media information is in () and song numbers are just before that separated by commas or a range 1 to 8 for example.

The D after the song number (eg 3D) means that song number 3 is a long song, about 7 minutes.

The notation / is meant to separate the sides of the record. So the notation 3D/2, 5 means that Side A has song number 3 (of length 7 minutes) and Side B has song numbers 2 and 5, in that order.

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