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Although Upendra did the hard work of collecting the filmographies of hundreds of unsung artistes, the whole business of trying to identify them began in the Facebook group
THOSE WHO COUDNT MAKE IT BIG BUT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITH OUT THEM
The group is run by him and Dr Ramnath Iyer Ashok as co-admins. This is the group where many juniors were identified.
In the acknowledgement section of his books, Upendra writes,
"... but also Ramnath Ashok Iyer for making me focus not just on the most prominent junior artists but rather every one we could spot and see and Saul George for his great memory that has brought to the front many names of junior artists that would otherwise be lost."
Dr Ramnath Iyer Ashok, besides his regular work, is involved in lots of other activities. Here is one of them.
Saul George started as a junior in 1963 and worked in the industry until the 80s.
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Recently HQ Chowdhury posted a very detailed and researched article on the above topic. However, I was very surprised to see that the name of John Foulds, the main force behind the ban, was missing. He actually wrote the article in the Indian Listener magazine in 1938 that criticized the harmonium severely and relentlessly pursued its ban, which, in the end, the director Lionel Fielden implemented.
First the infamous article, then the ban story details from the book on the history of broadcasting in India by Luthra.
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