Shair Aur Sargam, Songs From Movies of 7 Great Lyricists Options

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(Rajinder Krishan) Samadhi (1950)

Here are the songs from this album...

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(Shailendra) Shrimatiji (1952)

I am uploading songs from this album in two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set...

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Concluding Songs from "Shrimatiji (1952)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this album except one. The missing song is shown in red italics in the table below. I am requesting members to share this song if they have it. Thanks.

Here are the songs...

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(Shakeel) Jan Pahchan (1950)

Most of the following write up appeared in one of my earlier postings...

Here is another Nargis-Raj starrer that had similar theme like Raj's maiden directorial venture "Aag (1948)". He repeated the same theme again with "Satyam Sivam Sundaram" made in 1978. Ramanand Sagar who made his debut with Raj's "Barsaat" in 1949 for which he wrote its story, screenplay, and dialogues is at the helm here writing the screenplay and dialogues for “Jan Pahchan”. But the real story here is neither about Nargis & Raj nor Sagar. It is about the music of this movie.

Khemchand Prakash (his picture attached), who made his debut when he was 21 as a music director in 1939 with "Ghazi Salahuddin" was just coming back from his greatest triumph "Mahal", made in 1949. The movie catapulted Lata Mangeshkar to fame and fortune. Unfortunately Prakashji passed away while composing music for "Jan Pahchan". He was barely 42. In his brief stint of 11 plus years of professional career he composed music for 34 films. Manna Dey took over after Prakashji's death to complete the music directorial duties of "Jan Pahchan".

Besides turning around Lataji's career, Prakashji was also responsible for giving Kishoreda his initial break in the movie "Ziddi" made in 1948 with the solo song "Marne Ki Duaayen".

Every song in this album is an absolute beauty. Here Geetaji is at her best singing five soul stirring solos and a beautiful romantic melody with Talat Saab. I haven't heard many of Dasgupta's songs, but both of his solos are also fine listening. I am uploading these songs in two back-to-back posts.

Here are the songs in the first post…

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Mar 27 2013, 12:20 PM

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Concluding Songs from "Jan Pahchan (1950)"...

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

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(Anand Bakshi) Air Mail (1960)

I have only three songs from this album. I am missing at least three songs that are shown in red italics in the table below. If you have these or other songs from this album, please kindly share. Thank you.

Now for the three songs I have...

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) Parbat (1952)

Songs from this album were recently uploaded in this very thread. They are available starting at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...4658&st=219

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(Javed Akhtar) Kaala Patthar (1979)

This movie came from Yash Chopra's house. Its story was written by Salim & Javed team. It was loosely based on Joseph Conrad's serial "Lord Jim" that was published starting in 1899 in Britain's Blackwood Magazine. Later it was published as a book with the same title. In 1965, Richard Brooks made it into a movie with the same name where Peter O'Toole played the title role of a tormented soul who was trying to come to terms with his past for the serious error of neglect he committed earlier in his life that resulted in the loss of several lives.

Interestingly, the great Salil Chowdhury provided the background music for the film. The songs were composed by Rajesh Roshan. It is interesting to know how this came about as the practice of splitting music duties like in this film was not as prevalent in 70's and 80's as it is today.

I am uploading songs from this film in two back-to-back posts. Here are the songs in the first post...

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Concluding Songs from "Kaala Patthar (1979)"...

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

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(Majrooh) Fareb (1953)

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(Rajinder Krishan) Shaan (1950)

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(Shailendra) Aah (1953)

Most of the following write up appeared in one of my earlier postings of this fine album...

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”.

I am uploading all of the songs from this movie in back-to-back two posts. All songs of the movie are from an original soundtrack album CD. I am uploading a special and also an extended version of the song "Jhanan Jhanan". Unfortunately, its quality 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 earlier 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 forever. This is truly an ageless classic masterpiece.

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

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Continuing Songs from "Aah (1953)"...

Here are more songs from this beautiful album. The song "Maiyya Yashoda Ji" was added later on to give the movie happy ending...

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Concluding With Instrumentals of the Songs from "Aah (1953)"...

Here are instrumentals of some of the songs from this popular album...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 1 2013, 01:23 PM

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(Shakeel) Pardes (1950)

This movie was directed by M. Sadiq who later directed Guru Dutt’s famous movie on friendship and love “Chaudhvin ka Chand” in 1960. Guru surprised everyone when he elected Sadiq, who of late hasn’t done much good commercially, to direct his movie. This was soon after the debacle Guru suffered with his classic “Kaagaz ke Phool” in 1959, his last directorial effort. But after seeing this movie, “Pardes”, I can see why Guru went for Sadiq. “Pardes” also at its heart was based on the theme of friendship and love. This may have given another reason to Guru to have Sadiq handle the directorial duties of his film “Chaudhvin ka Chand”.

Incidentally, Madhubala’s younger sister Chanchal was introduced in this movie in a small and insignificant role.

Here are the songs from this film…