Posts Tagged ‘Shamshad Begam’
Ho o o teri meri ye kahaani
Posted on: April 27, 2013
I have recently become aware of a movie called “Nishaan” (1949). This movie was a Gemini Combines Production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had P Bhanumati, Nagendra Rao, J. S. Casshyap, Maya Banerji, B. Kalla, Ranjan, Narayan Rao etc in it. Judging the movie by its songs, this movie appears to be a great fun movie. I wonder why this movie is not all that well known.
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Laagi more man ki o saajna
Posted on: April 26, 2013
“Shabaab” (1954) was a musical extravaganza and some people in fact regard it as Naushad’s greatest music for a movie, which is high praise indeed.
The movie had fifteen songs in all. Fourteen of them have been discussed in the blog so far.
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“Saawan” (1959) was an N C Films production. It was produced by Gulshan Behl and directed by Ramesh Tiwari. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Ameeta, Nishi, Tuntun, Jeevan, Achala Sachdev, Leela Mishra, Ramayan Tiwari, Helen etc in it.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagt Pictures Production. This movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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When I came to know that Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) was no more, I decided to discuss some rare songs sung by her. Accordingly, I some rare songs sung by Shamshad Begam were discussed yesterday (24 april 2013). Those songs were rare, but their links were still available. It was only in one case that the link available contained incompele song and so I uploaded a complete version of the song to enable me to discuss that.
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919 – 23 april 2013) left for her heavenly abode at the night of 23 april 2013. We in this blog discussed some rare Shamshad Begam songs as our tributes to her yesterday.
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Baansuriya haay toot gayi man ki
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Dekho Ji” (1947) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information about this movie is available on line.
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Ae falak yoon hi sataata jaayegaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“But Taraash” (1947), forgotten movie by now had an interesting history behind it.
Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia has to say about this movie:
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O dil mein basaane waale
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Jeewan Nauka” (1952) was a K and K Production. This movie was directed by K Vembu. The movie had Thikkurissi, B. S. Saroja, Girija etc in it.
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) is no more. She was the seniormost among all the survivors from the earliest days of Hindi movie music. She in fact was senior to all the legends of the golden era of Hindi movie music. She was more or less a contemporary of the likes of K L Saigal, Khursheed, Amirbai Karnataki etc.
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