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Published: 07 July 2023

Last Updated: 07 July 2023

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 57th book

PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA 1951

Sanjeev Tanwar

A compilation of Hindi film posters of the year 1951. A collector's item. Year-wise collection of posters, cover page images of booklets, still photographs, etc. for the pleasure of re-visiting the Golden Era of the Silver Screen. The PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA-1951 covers all posters of Hindi films made in 1951.

    Sanjeev Tanwar is a native of Delhi. After completing his school and college education, he joined the Shri Ram Centre For Arts And Culture in 1996 to pursue his keen interest in theatre and writing. In 1998, he earned his diploma in acting.
    He has translated many important works of English literature into Hindi - 'The Time Machine' (H G Wells), 'Man & Superman' (G B Shaw), 'Adolf Hitler' (James Bunting), 'Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 'Old Man & The Sea' (Ernest Hemingway).
    While at the Shri Ram Centre, he wrote the play 'Chuna Ek Murga Beeti' based on ashort story by Sharad Joshi. His other dramatic works include - 'Hitler, Ek Marta Hua Sapna', 'The Court is Adjourned', 'Kishnuli' (based on a story by Shivani), 'Lolita' (based on the novel by the same name by Vladimir Nabokov).
    As an ardent lover of cinema, he has to his credits the compilation 'Tujhe Mere Geet Bulate Hain' (2015), a complete filmography of Bharat Vyas, and two books on Hindi Film posters, 'Pictorial Journey of Hindi Cinema 1939' and 'Pictorial Journey of Hindi Cinema 1940'.

US Letter size, paperback, Color, 106 pages, $12.95

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Published: 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 11 July 2023

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI is happy to announce their 58th book,

Early Hindi Film Advertisements II (1940-43)

by N Ramaswamy and Prof Surjit Singh

Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.

Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.

There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.
In this book, we present more than 720 images of early talkies ads. We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.

This book, second in the series, covers 1940-43, images of more than 720 film ads.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 207 pages, black and white.

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Published: 10 October 2023

Last Updated: 23 October 2023

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professor toofaanii publishers is proud to announce their 65th book:

The One And Only Common Man

by Dhiru Mistry

This book is based on the memoirs of Dhiru Mistry, an award-winning documentary film maker, Table Tennis champion and an accomplished classical dancer. It contains stories from his life in Bomaby, Rajpipla, Vadodara and other places, his memories of filmy people and the royal family Gaekwad.

The book is in English, 6 by 9 paperback, 132 pages, has Table of Contents.

As usual the first 15 pages may be read here.