My name is Mike Barnum and I am a writer for several film and television related periodicals including CLASSIC IMAGES, FILMS OF THE GOLDEN AGE, VIDEO WATCHDOG, FILMFAX and SCARLET: THE FILM MAGAZINE where my interviews with actors and actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age have been featured.
I first became a fan of Indian popular cinema around 2003 after seeing the Shilpa Shetty/Akshay Kumar/Sunil Shetty melodrama DHADKAN. Over time, watching Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, and Kannada films has become an addiction…but a delightful one from which I hope to never recover!
You can contact me at: aopp@aol.com, and be sure to check out my other blog Cinema Jadoo .
Pedro (The Ape Bomb) Blog 
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August 11, 2010 at 5:01 am08
Surjit
Wonderful work….very complete and lucid.
Where could I get Old premnath films of cd or dvd……Saqi, Sagai, Badal etc.etc.
thanks
August 12, 2010 at 5:01 am08
MBarnum
Hi Surjit, thanks for stopping by. If you are in the US then Nehaflix.com is a great place to get old Bollywood movies, if you are in India then try http://www.induna.com. Both have a wonderful selection and you can find lots of old Premnath films including Sagai and Badal.
June 15, 2012 at 5:01 pm06
cinematters
Hi Michael,
Reached here via Richard’s Blog. Pedro also has a Malayalam connection, in fact, he along with Bheem the elephant played a pivotal part in the box-office success of probably the first successful “jungle” film in Malayalam. That blog address had me smiling. Have dedicated a whole post on the movie here.http://oldmalayalamcinema.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/malayalam-films-1960-1970-aana-valarthiya-vanambadi-1960/
Thank you for this fabulous adda and yet another great source of info for sepia junkies..Thanks..cinematters
July 3, 2012 at 5:01 pm07
MBarnum
Hello Cinemaatters, and thanks for visiting my blog. I have spent all week looking around Oldmalayalamcinema and am astonished and thrilled! I have watched a number of current Malayalam films, but I know next to nothing of the classics…and now you tell me there is a jungle film with Pedro in it! Wow! That made my day ten times over! Thank you so much for alerting me to the film, you can be assured that I will be buying the VCD of that and others! What a shame they aren’t on DVD with subtitles, though.
Hope you will stop by often, and again, your blog is absolutely wonderful; so very glad to have it brought to my attention! Malayalam cinema history will survive thanks to your efforts!
December 28, 2020 at 5:01 pm12
Tarun Thakral
Hi Mike, excellent collection and very impressive. I collect Indian movie posters and was quite happy to see the way you have displayed the posters in your office and home. Best wishes for a great 2021
February 7, 2022 at 5:01 pm02
Mike Barnum
Thank you, Tarun. I had close to 175 vintage Bollywood posters in my collection but I recently donated them to the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art where they will soon be on display. Of course, now my walls at home are bare. LOL.