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professor toofaanii publishers is happy to announce their 32nd book:
Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-60)
Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'
and
Professor Surjit Singh
This book is a sister project, part of the much larger project undertaken by the two of us, with the help of many volunteers. The project is an outgrowth of the massive Hindi Film Geet Kosh (1980-) series of books compiled by the first author. The website is planned to contain all the data in the Geet Kosh, suitably expanded and revised by including the latest information.
The whole history of the Geet Kosh may be read in the My Story section of the above-mentioned website. Suffice it to say that after the pioneering work of Firoze Rangoonwalla and BV Dharap, Geet Kosh was a unique and original compilation work expanding the earlier work in many directions.
The database on the website is divided into three section for convenience. The Censor Certificate section has the information about the censored films. The Filmography section has the information about film production and other details. The Song section has detailed information about the songs.
It is a work in progress. A book on the Censor Certificate Information in English was published earlier, Hindi edition coming soon.
This is a reference book on the above subject. It has the title, the censor year, producer, director, lyricist, music director, other music credits, cast, additional cast consisting of the Junior Artists and Background dancers. People researching Hindi films will find this book useful.
The book is in English, 6" by 9", 244 pages, Table of Contents. Hindi Edition coming soon.
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA, humbly presents the 25th book:
MY DEV Memories of an Immortal Man by
Ali Peter John (former Editor of Screen Weekly)
Ali Saab says,
"Dev Anand was a collection of all the best colours of life. He was an ideal son, brother, father, filmmaker, writer, Director and editor besides being many other men in one man. There were attempts made to know him and understand him when he was alive, there are attempts still being made to know him, but knowing him as I did, I don't think it will be easy for anyone to understand the real Dev. This book, therefore is not my attempt to show my knowledge about him and his many achievements. This book is only my earnest attempt to paint a portrait of the Dev I knew and who gave me all the privileged experiences to know him as closely as possible.
This book is a precious look into the life of a man who was born immortal. I believe that Dev was and is immortal, but what is wrong if I cannot forget any of his memories, which for me are more precious than the prayers I pray to all the other Devs I know and I now have met and I now don't have any interest of knowing any other Dev."
BW paperback 6 by 9, color cover, 95 pages.
First 15 pages can be read here
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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 29th book,
Early Hindi Film Advertisements (1935-39)
by N Ramaswamy and Prof Surjit Singh
In this book, we present almost 400 images of early talkies ads. We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.
Paperback, 6 by 9, 127 pages, black and white
International Edition
First 15 pages can be read here
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