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The first edition of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh Volume IV (1961-1970) by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' was published in 1986.
The second revised and updated edition was published in June 2022.
Enough information was made available so that the 3rd edition was published in October 2022.
Like the previous editions, this edition is also in Hindi.
Image of the cover, a sample page, and the publication information are provided below.
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From the cover of Indian Listener in 1943
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Yesterday I was discussing some topics of mutual interest with Sanjeev Tanwar, He mentioned this point.
Film censorship in British India existed before the censor certification boards were installed. This earlier censorship was done by local police departments, impossible to find their records. Interestingly, the whole films were banned. They were mostly worried about the damage done to image of British and American woman through foreign films! Of course, in the early days foreign films shown in India were much more in number than the Indian films, because the Indian industry was just starting out.
Here is the first page of the Evans report from 1921.
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