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Published: 28 June 2023

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From the never-ending treasure of K C Pingle. He posted the following in the RMIM group (Filmfare July 1957)

Within minutes, he and Vibhendu located the Variety article (March 1957)

So, before Raju Bharatan who cooked up the 25,000 songs claim, we have RK Narayan claiming to Variety that she made $200,000 a month, which the Filmfare then reduced to one-tenth :)

No wonder she was busy defending herself before the Income Tax authorities for so many years for under-reporting her income.

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Published: 08 July 2023

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in Excelsior Theatre.

I can only guess that COCDA COLA is a misprint for COCA COLA :)

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Published: 21 September 2023

Last Updated: 21 September 2023

Many people have asked about the images on book cover.

I usually put the actors in the order of most number of films (usually top 9). What happens then is that the not so famous people get left out.

So, in the picturization book (1961-1970), I decided to have two groups. One for those who sang the main lines on screen and another for the rest.

Two table are shown below the pictures. X stands for people whom I could not recognize and I have chosen the famous scene from Guide to represent Background songs.

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