10 Responses to "Sundar naari preetam pyaari"
September 29, 2011 at 7:30 am
It sounds like a complex and layered story. It’s rare to see a woman in Hindi films with such gray shades.
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September 29, 2011 at 9:04 am
Banno ji,
Yes, it displays a complex charcterization for a lady, especially considering the times this film was made. It appears that such characterization may come either from literary works (like this film) or from biographical films based on real life characters (e.g. Bhumika (1977), with Smita Patil in lead role). I am sure there are many more such films where the leading actor or actress is portrayed with many shades of grey, but very few of them really made a mark in the minds of the film goers, may be a cultural accetability thing.
The lead role in film Guide (1965), Raju guide, is portrayed as a complex character, which has shades of negativity also. Once again, based on a literary work.
I am sure we can locate many other such examples.
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Sudhir
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September 29, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Atul ji,
Checking on the online web site dedicated to Pankaj Mullick (www.pankajmullick.com), they are listing the lyricist for this song as Aarzoo Lucknowi.
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Sudhir
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June 10, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Though I cannot speak a syllable in HIndi and much less Bengali, I have always considered the song “Sundara Naari Preetam Pyari” the greatest Hindi film song. In the late 1930s and much before the advent of the radio, my uncle ,the Late A.Vasudeva Murthy used to sing this number in our village home in the Hassan District of Karnataka, where nobody speaks Hindi even now. That only shows the popularity of the song. It was the songs rendered by K.L.Saigal, Pankaj Mullick , Kanan Devi or even Ashok Kumar which taught Hindi to South Indiians. Alas our film music in all languages has deteriorated. Being a journalist (former Resident Editor of The Hindu in Karnataka ) I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing Raichand Boral, the pioneer film music director. Unfortuately I never met Pankaj Mullick who had visited Bangalore in 1943 and 1953. I was born in the late 1940s. Thank you fro the information about the film Manzil.
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March 2, 2013 at 7:37 pm
This post is not related to the song but the author of the song i.e., Arzoo Lucknowi. Besides A.H.Shor and Munshi Arzoo we find another Arzoo by the name of Hazrat Arzoo. He wrote lyrics in Jawani-1942,Nayee Zindagi-1943 and Paraya Dhan-1943 and no more; at least I failed to find out any other lyric by Hazrat Arzoo on the internet. Nor I could find a word about his activity in the Bolleywood. I have gone through all the lyrics written by Hazrat. They have a striking resemblance with the lyrics of Arzoo Lucknowi. The diction and the style is the same. Even his pet words like biriyan, madmaati, mundari and gharaunda find place in lyrics written by Hazrat. I have a hunch that Hazrat is in fact Arzoo Lucknowi. In Nayee Zindagi the music is composed by Basant Kumar Naydu who set the tune of Arzoo Lucknowi’s lyrics in the movie Lalaji-1942. The timing of Hazrat is very important. Arzoo had come to Bombay and had hardly settled by then. He did write for Lalaji-1942 but he was not having much on his plate. He was not averse to the idea of using various names for his lyrics. Can it be that he wrote under the pseudonym of Hazrat Arzoo? I am not sure. I would like to know it from Arunji, Sadanandji or Sudhirji whom I find very knowledgeable in matters related to film world.
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February 16, 2021 at 11:29 pm
Are Munshi Aarzoo and Aarzoo Lucknowi the same lyricist?
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September 29, 2011 at 7:20 am
OMG! I heard this song after decades. I used to hear this song in eafly 50’s. Thereafter I completely forgot about this song until today.
As usual in those days, the rendition of this short and sweet lyrics are preceded by somewhat longish orchestration.which ends with a lovely flute recital before the actual singing starts. In between I get a feel of Saigal style of rendition, specially alaps.
Sudhir, thanks for discussing this rare gem of Pankaj Mullick in the blog.
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September 29, 2011 at 8:55 am
Very welcome, Sadanand ji, 🙂
Yes, a very lovely and a very rare song.
Rgds
Sudhir
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