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Published: 13 February 2018

Last Updated: 13 February 2018

After playback singing was discovered there were many new experiments in sound. Here we have Ram Marathe singing for a female onscreen. I believe this is the first time that happened

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Published: 21 September 2018

Last Updated: 21 September 2018

This word is not mentioned in the writings of Sikh gurus, Waris Shah or early Panjabi dictionaries. The earliest mention of this dance is in the form bangra in the Kohat district of the Pashtun area. The word bhangra itself comes from a dance form from the Rawalpindi district in 1884!

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Published: 31 October 2018

Last Updated: 31 October 2018

You may remember Nargis saying Firpos! to a taxi driver in Raat Aur Din (167). Turns out that the nightlife at Firpos and Grand Hotel in Calcutta was known to all Westernized Indians in 1927.

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