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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Tens of thousands of artists have contributed to Hindi cinema since 1931. Barring a few famous ones, other are long forgotten and are destined for obscurity. By sheer determination the authors have obtained information on more than 30 such artists, eg Khalil, Baakre, Baby Akhtar and Latika.
There are scores of others with similar names. Their biographies and filmographies are often mixed up even in well-known books and popular websites. By deep research the authors have distinguished between more than 25 such cases, eg Shyams, Rajkumars, Zubeidas and Shashi Kapoors.
The book is illustrated by more than 60 rare and not-before-seen pictures of these long forgotten artists.
Arunkumar Deshmukh
Arunkumar Deshmukh was born and grew up in Hyderabad state of
Nizam. The state being a composite state of areas speaking Urdu, Marathi,
Telugu and Kannada, he learnt all these languages, in addition to Hindi and
English. His father was a Freedom fighter and after the Independence, he
was one of the best Criminal lawyers of Hyderabad and later Andhra
Pradesh.
He was an active student and his extra curricular activities included,
NCC, Dramas, Writing, Astrology, Judo and above all seeing Old films and
recording their information in notebooks. From the early 40s to the end of
the 60s, he saw films in various languages.
His career in Pharmaceutical Marketing ended as General Manager,
Marketing in 1998 and he worked as a Consultant for another 7 years. He
started writing on old films, its people and songs from 2012 and has over
700 articles, over 650 Film reviews and hundreds of valuable informative
comments on Facebook, various sites and blogs, to his credit.
Besides devoting his time for this work, he is also on the Board of
Directors of two pharma companies. He lives in Mumbai.
This is his first book.
Prof Surjit Singh, a diehard movie fanatic, period. He is a retired
Theoretical Physicist. He has been watching Hindi movies since 1952, has
been collecting Hindi songs, movies and magazines since 1969, and has
been writing about these things since 1996. He has had a website since
1999,
http://hindi-movies-songs.com/joomla/
