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A Very Hard Worker, True to His Word
N S Vishwanath, a fellow RMIMer came to see me and I gave him copies of all my Hindi films on a hard disk. He gave them to one of hiss friends Sheo Khetan. One fine day, Sheo informed me that he has copies of all my movies and he would like to do a project based on them. I ignored his request becuase my projects are very labor-intensive. He did not give up, so I requested him to capture photos of all the named actors, and the ones that had a speaking part and even animals. Our hope is to publish a massive album of all the actors who ever worked in Hindi films, to 1960 at least for now.
He started doing it and has finished about 30 films. Here is a sample of his work. Enjoy!
Now you know!
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India Abroad wrote an article claiming that Lata sang 30,000 songs. After it was published, I received many phone calls and people bought HFGK volumes. The best side-effect was that I discovered my BFF Dr Manohar Lal Kapur
The original that I mailed
This is how they published
They mis-spelt his name and removed his address info. And at least admitted that it was controversial.
Now you know!
Mr Jayaraman lifted many songs from YouTube. I am ignoring them.
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Whenever I read about Indian Classical music or its history, from the earliest books till date, they always mention that the Indian music has melody whereas the western music has harmony. This is very surprising to me because even some of the African music has harmony and we missed it. I have been trying to find examples of it in Indian classical music, but I don't know enough. Here is the earliest example from Hindi film music (based on what they say in books, all I hear is two different tunes overlapping in many places.)
Now you know!
Listen to Hum Diwane (1965)
- Musing 45: tujhe bibbo kahooN, Sindbad Alibaba Alladin (!965)
- Musing 1087. M Y Mohan, Singer? J158
- Musing 70: Anarkali myth, Daghabaz (1970)
- Musing 400: Rafi 105. Happy Birthday, Lata!
- Musing 277: Raj Kapoor and Archie Comics, Rafi 15
- Musing 47: Sitar in song, Tarzan and King Kong (1965)
- Musing 472: Rafi 177. Bipin Gupta debut
- Muisng 323: Clare Mendonca, Rafi 59
- Musing 50: Sakina nude, Insaaf (1966)
- Musing 90: Censorship Predictions, Narsingh 693 Tunes
- Musing 499: Rafi 203. GaDiMa on Najm Naqvi
- Musing 564: Changez Khan, Jimmy Vining
- Musing 4: B V Dharap, Gazette
- Musing 189: Bandar-Bandariya Khel, Bharat 27 Lata Nashad
- Musing 298: Nutan offers advice, Rafi 36
