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Background Dancers in Hindi Films (1952-68)
Edwina Violette
Narsingh Agnish
Professor Surjit Singh
professor toofaani publishers is happy to announce their 19th book.
It is paperback, 106 pages, 6"x9", black and white with color cover. First 20 pages may be read below.
Until a few years ago most of did not know Edwina Violette (or Edu, as her fans call her) by name. We only knew her as a background dancer in many Hindi songs. Famously, in the song ‘O Hasina Zulfonwali Jane Jahan’ from Teesri Manzil (1966) she appears in the beginning shaking her head and flaunting her long hair, before settling down on the letter C of the giant ROCKY sign. Thanks to the efforts of famous blogger Greta Kaemmer (of her blog memsaabstory), the world ‘discovered’ her. One of us (SS) was so thrilled that he wrote his first book on Hindi films, Edu’s biography.
In preparation for the book, SS watched more than one hundred videos of her (put together by Tom Daniel), he was struck by the other faces in the background who danced in many of these songs. It occurred to him that a book should be written about them while we can still identify them.
So, SS requested his friend Narsingh D Agnish to watch all the videos and capture still images of her co-dancers. He painstakingly captured almost 1,000 images, of which about 500 were selected to be sent to Edu by email. She responded promptly identifying most of them and writing little notes about them in the bargain!
We have selected about 300 of those images for this book. We are thrilled that we have been able to put names to about 100 faces of her friends.
All three of us loved working on this book, we hope you will enjoy it too and have the excitement of saying, “I know her, she is Pamela, Edu’s best friend. Or, I recognize him, he is Terence, Edu’s brother!”
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NOTE: The last page in both parts has been revised. Please replace with the image provided. New buyers will get the revised version.
professor toofaani publishers, Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 24th book, a two-part one.
LAXMIKANT-PYARELAL Music Forever: An 'LP' Era :: 1963-1998, PART I Essays
LAXMIKANT-PYARELAL Music Forever: An 'LP' Era :: 1963-1998, PART II Films and Songs
by Ajay Poundarik.
Both are the usual paperbacks, US Letter size.
The book is about Hindi film music's most popular music directors Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Highlighting the towering success of Bollywood's most successful music directors. 503 Films, 2,844 songs, 160 singers and 72 songwriters. Laxmikant-Pyarelal colossal contribution in Bollywood music. The book is for Hindi film music lovers. The Author has done an in-depth study and the research, for over 50 years, on musical journey of 35 years {1963 - 1998), Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The duo's association with filmmakers, actors, actresses, songwriters, singers, are described in the book. The duo's performance in Binaca geetmala and their Filmfare awards. Their selected musical hit films songs, orchestra etc has been described. Various types of songs composed by them are defined. Number of films and the numbers of the songs. Enjoy and know what LP means to Hindi film music.
A review of the book by P P Ramchandran
First ten pages of either can be read here.
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professor toofaanii publishers is happy to announce their 15th book
Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast (1938-1940)
by Sheo Khetan (it is his second non-technical book) and Prof Surjit Singh (it is his 10th book and 8th on Hindi cinema)
How many times have you wanted to know how the actors in old movies looked like? Of course, we are all familiar with the famous ones, Saigal, Ashok Kumar, Lila Chitnis, Madhubala. But how about many others whose names appear in the film cast and filmographies? This book is an attempt put faces to their names. We have taken 21 Hindi films whose videos are in our collection and captured pictures of the cast and included more than 500 pictures.
Black and White, paperback, color cover, 104 pages, with Table of Contents and Index.
Buying information
1. Paperback on all 13 Amazon websites, eg in US
2. Paperback on Pothi India
First 20 pages can be seen here
- Censor Certificate Information of Hindi Talkies (1931-2010)
- Musing 1045. C Ramchandra book
- Musing 1055. Filmography of Pandit Bharat Vyas
- Musing 915: Rainbow of Emotions by Lalit Berry
- Musing 1053. Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-60)
- Musing 921: The Caliginous Light, a novel
- Musing 1081. The Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.
- Musing 977. MUNNA The boy who grew into a legend.
- Musing 953: Book on Dev Anand
- Musing 989: Early Hindi Film Advertisements (1935-39)
- Musing 982: Hindi Films: Pictures of the Cast III (1941-1942)
- Musing 1010. WITH YOU, MAA, WITHOUT YOU, OH MAA!
- Musing 1212. Hindi Talkie Filmography (1951-60) in HINDI.
- Musing 1263. Hindi Film Song Picturizations (1951-1960)
- Musing 1092: ALI(VE) in Bits And Pieces.
