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You're very welcome Abhay. Cheers. -S

Thanks for uploading Kishore's songs, Irfan. Cheers. -S

(Dilip) Shaheed (1948)

Here is a beautiful album from Ghulam Haider. I am missing one song shown in red italics in the table below. Please share this song if you can. (Could this be the famous song "Suno Suno Yeh Duniyawaalo Baapu Ji Ki Amar Kahaani" that made Rafi Saab famous all over India? If so, it should be a private one and not from this movie.)

Here is the first of the two posts of this album ...

Songs of "Shaheed (1948)" Continued ...

In this post I am uploading several versions and parts of the song "Watan Ki Raah Mein". The full song is really not full, as you can see from the sum of the three parts. Finally I am uploading a version of this song by Lata and Adinath Mangeshkar, a nephew of Lata. This song is all Adinath and Lata just croons occasionally in the background. I do have doubts whether this indeed is Adinath or not.

Here are the songs ...

(Kishore) Ladki (1953)

The pairing of Vyjayanti Mala and Kishore Kumar started with this movie. They made several movies together and most of them were hits including this one. This movie was originally made in Tamil and then in Telugu.

I am uploading these songs i two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set of songs ...

Songs of "Ladki (1953)" Continued ...

Here are the rest of the songs from this album ...

Thanks for all songs of Jhumroo. One song is mising

'Ruk RUk Tham Tham' sung by Asha Bhosle. Can someone please upload that?

(Dev) Afsar (1950)

This movie was a milestone in Hindi cinema for sveral reasons. Dev founded Navketan and this was the first movie he produced under that banner. The Navketan banner went on to make many more movies in the years to come. This was the movie for which Sachinda gave music for. This association of Sachinda with Navketan, and especially with Dev, became a boon for music lovers. Some of the most memorable music ever composed by Burmanda was for this banner. Over one-third of movies he composed music for starred Dev.

This movie was directed by Chetan Anand, elder brother of Dev. Chetan made the same movie years later as "Saheb Bahadur" in 1977. But the 1977 movie didn't have Suraiya. Also, Dev was 27 years older. The off screen romance that pervaded the private lives of Suraiya and Dev permeated through Afsar that made it so endearing.

A word about Burmanda's music for this movie. With Suraiya's beautiful voice the songs from this album are sprinkled with sweetness of melody all over. And melody was Burmanda's trademark. Especially Suraiya's song "Mann Mor" is composed with a combination of flute and sitar is just unforgettable that makes Narendra Sharma's rich lyrics come alive.

The song "Pardesi Re" apparently was based on Burmanda's own Bengali composition "Padmar Dheu Re". The emphasis of "Re" in each antara of this song casts a melodic spell. Also, I have read some place that the inspiration for the song "Naina Diwaane" came from Rabindranath Tagore's composition. The beats of tabla with sounds of piano and music of flute that accompany Suraiya's voice is an unforgettable experience that leaves you longing for more.

I am missing two songs by Manmohan Krishna. The details are shown in red italics in the table below. If you can, please share these with rest of us.

Now let us treat ourselves for the delectably delicious songs from this album ...

EXCELLANT UPLOADS SP

Thank you very very much EZ. Appreciate it. Cheers. -S

(Dilip) Andaz (1949)

Most of the following write up is taken from the "Three Reiging Queens" thread where earlier I covered songs of this album.

Here is a classic that never gets dated. Probably that is why it is a classic. This was definitely one of the great movies of Mehboob Khan. If his other great classic “Mother India” dealt with rustic India, this movie dealt with urban India and the influence of western culture on it. Both movies starred one of our greatest actresses, Nargis. She probably owes to Mehboob more than anyone else for bringing out the best in her.

Nargis was hardly 19 years old when “Andaz” was made. She was already an established actress. As a matter of fact she had the top billing in this movie with Dilp Kumar and Raj Kapoor names to appear after hers when the titles of the movie rolled. This was the first movie in which her acting abilities were really challenged. The role that has many shades of complexity and demanded consummate histrionics. She rose to the occasion magnificently. She brings out the carefree tomboyish nature of a growing woman with much glee and élan. She puts forth forcibly the role of a responsible business woman with ever so ease. She exemplifies as an adoring wife with romantic abandon. She gives intensity to her performance to show moral conflict of a person caught between the love of two men which shows bleeding wounds of suffering. This is the movie Nargis announced to the world that she has arrived.

After casting Nargis, Mehboob Khan asked her whom does she want to play her husband in the movie, Dilip or Raj. She chose Raj. Each of the male leads did a great job in such contrasting roles. It was restraint in acting of Dilip versus the deliberate overplay of Raj. It was fun to watch these two great performers for the first and the last time together in the same movie.

The movie has some great music by Naushad ji. Like in most of his early movies, Naushadji was just brilliant. Every song was a super hit. Interestingly all songs by Mukesh were picturized on Dilip and Rafi sang for Raj. Incidentally, the previous year, in “Mela (1948)”, Naushad used the voice of Mukesh for Dilip. Those songs were also huge hits.

This was a banner year for Lata. Every song in this movie was a huge hit. But this didn’t come easy. While recording of these songs, Naushadji felt that Lata lacked proper Urdu diction. Lataji’s mother tongue being Marathi, this was not unusual. Naushadji spent many hours coaching Lata on how to speak Urdu and how to sing some of the songs. This becomes very evident when Lata sings the song “Uthaaye Jaa Unke Sitam” in the movie. By the way, Lata also had another magnificent movie this same year in Raj Kapoor’s memorable musical “Barsaat”.

Because of the number of songs I will upload these in two back-to-back posts. I am also including a couple of unreleased songs that were contributed by the fellow Forum member, kadri420. Many thanks to Kadriji.

Now for the first set of songs …

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jan 9 2010, 04:45 AM

Songs of "Andaz (1949)" Continued ...

Here are the rest of the songs from this album. I am also including a special version of "Tu Kahe Agar Jeevan Bhar" with Naushadji's introduction where he talks about Mukeshji's singing prowess. This is taken from the album"Legends: Mukesh - The Soulful Voice (CD 1" album. Here are the songs ...

Another cancelled song, a nice Mukesh solo in mp3/192 kbps. Source: HF.