Background Dancers In Hindi Films (1952-68)

<p>Until a few years ago most of did not know Edwina Violette (or Edu) 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 the world discovered her. One of us (SS) was so thrilled that he wrote his first book on Hindi films Edus biography.<br/>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.<br/>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 1000 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!<br/>We have selected about 300 of those images for this book. We are thrilled that we have been able to put names to so many faces of her co-dancers.<br/>All three of uslove working on this book we hope you will enjoy it too and have the excitement of saying I know her she is Pamela Edus best friend. Or I recognize him he is Terence Edus brother!</p>