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Pankaj Rag has a well-kept secret. The director of Punebased Film and Television Institute of India, who authored a book on music directors, has a collection of about 500 unreleased songs sung by Bollywood's greatest singers. Rag, a 1990 batch IAS officer, is on deputation as the director of FTII, the premier filmmaking institute in the country . "I may not be the only person to have such a collection. But I am not aware of any other collector," he says. "I have been collecting songs over these years and right now I have 2,000 cassettes which contain some rare gems. It was a difficult task and money was not involved in it. Everything worked through friendship with other collectors and exchange of songs with them." Rag's tryst with songs started in 1982. It later turned into a hobby and soon assumed the shape of an obsession which continued through his professional life. "I got interested in songs when I was studying in class X. No one in my family th...