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": Hello Peoplez,
: I love the music of the golden era 40's, 50's and 60's , and I want some information about one of the most famous singer of that era :- Shamshad begum. I have never read any interview on her, and I have never seen any picture of her appearing in any magazine. However, I know something indirectly about her, appearing in other people interviews and biographies. Those people who don't listen to the oldies, or don't know any about her, here are some facts which will refresh your memory!

: 1. She was one of the most famous singers of the 40's with a nasal voice which had no parallel at that time. She first ruled the lahore film industry and later migrated to bombay, where music directors fell over each other to sign her for their films.

: 2. She along with Geeta dutt were the ONLY singers, who survived the onslaught of lata, in the 50's. All three of them were the numero unos, and all other singers including Asha Bhosle (till 1958) used to come to second place (Lata Biography, Raju Bharatan).

: 3. According to the lyricist Gulshan Bawra, Shamshad Begum along with Mukesh have the highest average song success ratio. This means 95% or more of her songs were popular and are still popular today.

: 4. She sang her most famous duets with all male singers, including Kishore Kumar, Mohd Rafi, G.M Durrani, Talat Mahmood, Mukesh and Manna dey. Even her 3 duets with Hemant Kumar were super hits at that time.

: 5.She also gave us the most famous same sex duets with all female singers including, Noor-Jehan, Lata, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt and Suraiya. According to the Geet Kosh , she sang 27 duets with Lata and 54 with Asha Bhosle, making her the only non-mangeshkar singer (excluding Usha Mangeshkar), who sang the maximum number of songs with Lata and Asha.

: 6. She was used as a platform by all Music directors to move on to Lata and Asha Bhosle including O.P. nayyar, Chitragupta, Madan Mohan, C.Ramchandra, Naushad, S.N. Tripathi and S.D. Burman. According to Raju Bharatan, in Lata Biography, it is mentioned that she helped all new music directors and supported them to acquire a secure place in film industry, who later left her for either Asha or Lata and started to gave her raw deals. Some examples include, Shabnam (*ing Dilip Kumar,1949) music by S.D. Burman (primary singer was shamshad and all of the songs were super hits which helped S.D. Burman alot). Ankhein (1950, *ing:- Nalini Jaywant, first film of Madan Mohan), all of the songs were sung ny Shamshad, as Madan Mohan was new comer and lata refused to sang for him, and Shamshad helped him. Sinbad the Sailor (1952, *ing:- Naseem Bano), music by Chitragupta had that famous duet of Mohd Rafi and Shamshad "Ada see jhoomtey huwey, nainoun kou choomtey huwey", that boosted his career, and helped him get A grade movies. Even Naushad said "whatever sucess I have got until now, usmein Shamshad begum ka buhut bara haath hai". As Shamshad was a favorite singer of Naushad along with Lata.

: 7. Even those music directors who didn't like her nasal voice and gave her only 1 or 2 songs, were amazed at the success her songs bought for them. For example, Shankar Jaikishan gave her only one solo in Awaara (*ing Raj Kapoor, Nargis) "ek do teen, aaja mausam hai rangein", which broke all success records at that time. Other example is Sulil Chawdhury, who gave her only 3 songs, one solo and two duets with Manna dey, all of them were great songs. Those were "Teri meri humsey phirey sarie duniya, 2. deshi kiya videshi kiya, sunder bhi kitna, 3. dil mera na jaane re na jaane re". Even Anil Biswas who didn't like her voice at all, Shamshad made her songs of Veena(1948) very popular including "Panchi aur pardesi dono nahin kisie kai meet re".

: 8. She was the favorite singer of Naushad, O.P Nayyar, Ghulam Mohammed and Ghulam Haider, who used her voice to the full extent and range as possible.

: 9. O.P. Nayyar who turned to Asha Bhosle in the 60's, admits in his most recent interview that "I am to blame myself in the position I am today. My only regret in life is that I didn't stick to Geeta dutt voice, and ignored her for Asha Bhosle. As I was involved very emotionally with Asha Bhosle at that time, and Asha Bhosle didn't wanted me to compose songs for any other female singer, this almost stopped me to use any other female voice. Asha Bhosle says that my compositions were very intricate and complex to sing, and me(Asha) and Mohd Rafi can only give 80% to O.P.Nayyar songs. I (Nayyar) think she is lying, she and Mohd Rafi could only give 40% to my music. The only singers who can give 100% and did full justice to my songs were Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum. (Source:- rediff.com) (I think O.P. Nayyar along with Kedar Sharma and are the only ones to admit to Lata and Asha monopoly in the Film Industry. Maybe there are many other incidents too where they stopped music directors to use other female voices, as many singers including Suman Kulyanpur, Vani Jairam and Mubarak Begum blamed Lata and Asha for that. All of them can't be lying, what you people think?

: 10. Why didn't O.P Nayyar used lata even once for any of his songs? The story goes like that...
: The song "Piya Aan na sakhie more nainan mein" have to be originally sung by Lata Mangeshkar. As this was O.P Nayyar first movie (Aasmaan, 1951), Lata refused to sing for new music director and the song was recorded in Rajkumari voice in a hurry. O.P. Nayyar had lots of self-respect and ego, and he sweared to himelf, that he will be popular without using Lata voice even once, and he proved it! Lata in her recent interview says diplomatically, "I fell sick and therfore I wasn't able to go, and the recording was cancelled". The other songs of Aasmaan were sung by Shamshad Begum and Geeta Dutt and C.H. Atma.

: 11. Lata also gave troubles to almost all music directors and other co-singers. There was a dispute with Naushad over the royalty of songs. Mohd Rafi and Lata, didn't sang with each other for almost a decade, when Suman was paired with Rafi, and they were going sucessfully. After lata-rafi friendship Suman Kulyanpur again went into oblivion. S.D.Burman also had trouble with lata, starting from the film Sitaroun sai AAGE, and didn't used her voice for almost seven more years. (This gave boost to Asha career). Other troubles lata created were with Khaiyaam and Kidar Sharma. In Kidar Sharma interview the song "kabhi tanhaiyoun mai youn hamarie yaad aayey gie" have to be originally sung by Lata. But lata wanted Kidar Sharma to pay her driver too. When he refused to pay, Lata said "mera gala kharab hai, i can't sing". Kidar sharma answered "get out, yeh dhandlie yahan nahin chaley gie", and then the song was recorded in Mubarak Begum voice and was a huge hit.


I suppose you are all familiar with the tons of songs she sang in Panjabi (superior, in my opinion to even Surinder Kaur, of whom I am a fan; I think the Panjabi music exploited her voice range to a far greater degree in songs such as "Batti baal ke banere utte" etc.
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Thanks
Ashish
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[fiftysomeone]

Ashish dost,
I have also been a Shamshad appreciator for 3-4 decades, probably her songs are among the most popular remix material.
Lekin yaar, wohi article phir se do baar post karne ki kya zaroorat hai?
Hope you understand.
50Some1

[sbfan]

Hi,

Actually I was waiting for ur reply.This time it was by mistake..First i try to post with subject an excerpt,There was net slag and I thought It was not posted.I By mistake when I posted it again with name excerpt Shamshad Begum I found it was already posted. It was not deliberate this time.I Can't control my laughter now .It was really un intentional this time.

Thanks
Ashish