The Three Reigning Queens

(Madhubala) Shirin Farhad (1956)

For the few films he worked on, the maestro Mohiner Saab provided some unforgettable music. The case in point is this album. It has every song very beautifully composed. I am uploading all of the songs. Most of these songs came from different CD collections. Others were contributed by the Forum members. Thank you.

I will upload all songs from the film in the first post. In the second post, I am uploading some extended versions. Even though most songs are of very good quality, you may find on occasion a skip here and a skip there. But this in no way diminishes the beauty of these songs or the overall quality of this album.

Now for the details of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves ...

Concluding Songs from "Shirin Farhad (1956)" ...

I am posting below some of the extended version of the songs from this fine album of Mohinder Saab. All these songs are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you.

Now for the songs ...

Hi SP
here is one of the missing songs

KHATAWAR HOON--ASHA--3.19MTS--@128KBPS


QUOTE=ROMESH

Hi SP

it seems I have longer version of badi bewafa hai yeh udti hawa hai---3.45mts--@192kbps which i am u/l



quote=romesh

Thank you very much Romesh for the extended version of the song. Cheers. -S

(Meena) Memsahib (1956)

You won't find too many albums where Lata didn't sing a song for Madan Mohan Saab. This is one of them. In this album Asha sings all except one song, four solos and two duets. The one exception is the solo by Kishoreda, "Dil Dil Se Milakar Dekho", a real beauty.

I am uploading these songs in two back-to-back posts. Here is a description of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves ...

Concluding Songs from "Memsahib (1956)" ...

Here are the rest of the songs from this album. I am also including a special version of "Kheta Hai Dil" with Shammi Kapoor's introduction.

Here are the songs ...

Not Madan Mohan's finest moment! This song was a pretty blatant lift of a Sinatra song from that period called The Isle of Capri.

Well, what do you know. You learn something new every day. Thanks for the info Faraaj. Cheers. -S

Can the members please upload Neki Aur Badi (MD: Roshan). I missed the album in the earlier upload.

Seshadri

The three best songs of Neki Aur Badi are:

Old Filmi - 1949 Neki Aur Badi - Amirbai - Chand Hansa Akash Pe-roshan 128kbps 2m 42s (the standout - one of Roshan's best from the early years)

Old Filmi - 1949 Neki Aur Badi - Rajkumari - Humein Bhane Lage-roshan 185kbps 3m 15s

Old Filmi - 1949 Neki Aur Badi - Amirbai - Mere Chail Chabile-roshan 128kbps 3m 16s

Thanks Faraaj for the prompt uploads. If possible can you please upload the other songs of the album. Thanks in advance.

here are the rest of the songs

taiyab



1)dilwalo o dolwalo dil ki baaton main aana na-3.07 mins-160 br-rajkumari

2)hamain na roko hato unke paas jaane do-3.02 mins-160 br-ameer bai

3)jamna tat par natwar gidhar-3.19 mins-160 br-rajkumari & feroz

4)kyun ji scent lagaya hai-ameer bai & feroz dastoor-3.24 mins-160 br

5)ram duhayi haye rama duhai-3.07 mins-160 br-asha & rajkumari

taiyab

(Nargis) Aah (1953)

Most of the following I borrowed from my earlier posting about this film.

This was the first movie Raj produced but did not direct that was a commercial failure. At least his "Aag (1948)" was an artistic triumph even though it did not pan out financially. After garnering unprecedented successes he enjoyed with his earlier movies ("Barsaat (1949)" and "Awaara (1951)"), the failure of "Aah" was a big downer for Raj. Bunny Reuben, who was a close friend of Raj, writes in Raj’s biography how Raj recalled his "Aah" experience. Raj went and saw the movie on the first day in the Opera House in Bombay and could tell from the way the audience reacted that this movie was going to be a flop. Based on this he decided to revise its ending from tragedy to a somewhat neutral ending where the hero's life is "spared" and is reunited with his sweetheart for eventuality they were to face together. The DVDs that are available out today have this revised version.

If one examines Raj's own home production movies until this point, one key trend stands out. In all these movies one of the key characters either dies or suffers a traumatic experience. In "Aag" this is shown as the disfigurement of the hero. In "Barsaat" there is a death (Nimmi's). In "Awaara" the hero is imprisoned for life. In the original version of "Aah" the hero dies. Later on this also manifests in several of his other movies.

The story of "Aah" was written by Inder Raj Anand. But nearly final 30 minutes of the movie of the original version was a direct lift from Barua's Devdas (with K.L. Saigal), made in 1935. Here we see the hero traveling in a train with his servant, then using a horse carriage to go to the bride’s place on her wedding night, and eventual death right in front of her bungalow as the wedding procession passes by unaware of his dead body. By the way the horse carriage driver was played by Mukesh singing that famous song “Chhoti Si Zindagani”.

This movie was dubbed into both Telugu and Tamil. I will upload songs from the Telugu movie, called “Prema Lekhalu”, immediately following this right in this thread.

I am uploading all of the songs from this movie in back-to-back two posts. These songs are from an original soundtrack album CD. I am uploading a special and also an extended version of the song "Jhanan Jhanan" in the second post. Unfortunately the quality of the extended version song is not that good. This song is by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you.

The songs of "Aah", like most of Shankar & Jaikishan's early movies, made history. Each of the song was a major hit. Even though they all are marvelous, one song is a standout. Lataji's "Yeh Shaam Ki Tanhayian" is one of my all time favorites. I probably heard this zillion times yet I never get tired of it. The sweetness, the melancholy, and the longing were superbly executed in an unforgettable way by Lataji to Shailendra's rich lyrics. This song stays in your heart for ever.

Now for details of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves ...