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On my website I have complete and collected works of the celebrated music dirrector of the sub-continent, Khwaja Khurshid Anwar. In fact, in spite of the fact the material has not chnaged much in more than a decade, this section of my website is always in the top three sections, the other two being the Roberto and the Narsingh collections of rare songs. Many years ago, his autobiography (based on interviews with him, which was published in an Urdu newspaper), was put on my website. Unfortunately, part 11 of the 15-part series was missing. Thanks to the efforts of the MDs son, and my dear friend Irfan Anwar, part 11 has been found. You can download all the parts here or read online.
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Message received from Dr Venkata S Vutukuri, who has published the Telugu Filmography and Telugu Film Geet Kosh:
SPB sang about 9,900 songs in 3,200 Telugu Movies.He worked for about 2,000 Producers. The top 5 are: D Ramanaidu, Ramoji Rao, Jayakrishna, C Ashwini Dutt and T Trivikrama Rao.He worked with about 750 Directors. Top 5 Directors are: Dasari Narayana Rao, K Raghavendra Rao, A Kodanda Rami Reddy, Kodi Ramakrishna and K S R Das.He sang songs of about 300 Lyricists. The top 5 are: Veturi, C Narayana Reddy, Sirivennela, Atreya and Rajasri.For about 260 Music Directors, he sang songs. The top 5 are: Chakravarthy, K V Mahadevan, Ilayaraja, Satram and Raj-Koti.SPB sang songs with about 340 co-singers. The top 5 co-singers are: Susheela, Chitra, Janaki, S P Sailaja and Vani Jayaram.
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Here is a glimpse at what films were running in Bombay during the first three months of 1958. Just see at how many cities this film ran for 100 days! This table is due to the hard work and dedication of Kamesh Subbarao who is looking at the old issues of the newspaper Bombay Chronicle.
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- Musing 776: Shailendra List by Nikhil Iyer. Misc 105
- Musing 801: Azurie in 1959. Misc 128.
- Musing 802: Bibbo in Zeenat 1945. Misc 129
- Misc 778: Jagjeet Kaur. Misc 107.
- Musing 790: Hindi Film Database
- Musing 775: Geeta Roy. Misc 104.
- Misc 777: Indubala. Misc 106
- Musing 792: Bomaby Censor Board. Misc 119
- Musing 812. Database Website Update. Misc 137
- Musing 826: Dr Lata Mangeshkar. New 10
- Musing 774: Manik Dadarkar. Misc 103.
- Musing 834: What about Alamara? New 18.
- Musing 829: Shakil Badayuni. New 13.
- Musing 800: Filmi Deewaano, Congratulations! Misc 127
- Musing 824: Database on Cellphone. New 8
