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

[swarapriya]

(Shakeel) Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)

I am skipping my chronological order of uploading films in this thread to accommodate a request of a fellow member.

Parts of the following write up appeared earlier in one of my postings of this film...

Here is another movie based on a famous English novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emile Bronte. It was published in 1847. The story tells passionate but thwarted tale of two ill-fated lovers. In 1939, famous Hollywood director William Wyler (of “Ben-Hur” among others) made this into an award winning popular movie with Merle Oberon and Sir Laurence Olivier. It was remade in 1992 with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, but this time around the adaptation was tame.

When producer and director Kardar approached Dilipji with the story that he was thinking of making it into a movie, Dilip Saab at once took the story to the heart. He saw an opportunity as he immediately recognized that the complex character presented many challenges that demanded different skills as an actor. On one side as a silent lover the performance demanded much restraint. On the other side the villainous nature has to bring in from the actor subtle shades of grey. On another dimension, the role offered a chance to show pangs of pathos of a heart broken lover. All said and done, when the movie was made and released, a consummate actor he is, Dilip Saab pulls off all these different facets with much magnificence and élan.

It was rumored that Dilip Saab spent much time with Kardar Saab in developing his and the character played by Pran. In the first half of the film Pran Saab whenever appears on the screen gives a scare to everyone. His presence was at once menacing. However I felt that in the later part of the film his performance was on the hysterical side. A great actor he was, it could have been wonderful if he slightly underplayed his role in the second half of the film. But the director was trying to bring out the contrast between the silent performance of Dilip Saab to vocal performance of Pran Saab.

Waheeda, the object of everyone's love interest in the story, was stunningly beautiful. As usually is the case with her, she exuded not only grace and charm but pulls off her role matching scene for scene with Dilip Saab.

There are some beautiful songs Naushadji created to the lyrics penned by Shakeel Saab. Listen closely to the solos by Rafi Saab. Especially the way Rafi Saab sings the songs, "Guzre Hain Aaj Ishq Mein" and "Koi Saaghar Dil Ko". Only Rafi Saab can deliver such masterpieces. But my favorite happens to be the duet of Asha and Rafi Saab, "Saawan Aaye Ya Na Aaye". This is an absolutely sweet duet with Naushadji's imprint all over it.

I am uploading all songs, music clips, and some specials in three back-to-back posts. I ripped songs from the film and music clips from a DVD. I have an original soundtrack album of these songs. But DVD songs are all longer in the sense there is music associated with them. If anyone would like, I will be happy to share the songs from the original soundtrack album.

Here is the first set of songs…

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Continuing Songs from "Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)"...

Here are the rest of the songs and some music clips from the film...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 6 2013, 01:49 PM

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Concluding Songs from "Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)"...

Here are some specials...

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(Anand Bakshi) Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath (1962)

Laxmikant & Pyarelal, who were about to make history the following year with their record breaking debut album "Parasmani", were assistant music directors to Kalyanji & Anandji for this film. I am uploading songs from this album in two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set of songs...

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath (1962)"...

Here are the rest of the songs and some music clips from this film...

[swarapriya]

(Hasrat Jaipuri) Aurat (1953)

This film as it claimed was based on a Biblical story. But it was freely adopted from Cecil B. DeMill’s enduring classic, the 1949 box-office hit “Samson and Delilah”. Bina Rai reprised the role played by the beauty with brains, Hedy Lamarr. Prem Nath played Victor Mature’s role. Purnima played Angela Lansbury’s role.

The Hindi film was only a moderate success. Bina Rai and Prem Nath, the two principles in the movie, fell in love while shooting for this film and soon after its completion got married.

Here are the songs from this film…

[swarapriya]

(Javed Akhtar) Arjun (1985)

Songs from this album are uploaded in two back-to-back posts. The first post contains songs from the film. The second post contains several music clips.

Here is the first set of songs...

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Some Music Clips from "Arjun (1985)"...

Here are some music clips from this film...

[swarapriya]

(Majrooh) Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955)

This is another classic musical combination from OP, Majrooh, Geetaji, Shamshadji, Rafi Saab, Johnny Walker & Guru Dutt. This same team gave the previous year a hit in "Aar Paar". This time Madhubala joins in the fun. Thanks to her and the catchy songs, the movie became a hit.

Except for one song (two versions) all songs were written by Majrooh Saab. The song "Preetam Aan Milo", which appears in two versions, was written by Saroj Mohini Nayyar. She was the wife of the music director OP. This was during their happy married times. Later they got separated and lived separately.

I am uploading songs from this film in two back-to-back posts. The first post contains all songs from an original sound track album. The second post contains the two versions of "Preetam", some music clips, and a couple of instrumentals. Unfortunately the quality of "Preetam" is so so.

It is interesting to note that in Music Clip-4, about 41 seconds into the music, OP uses the music that became later the tune he used in 1958 for "Howrah Bridge" for the chart buster "Merra Naam Chhin Chhin Chhin".

Here are the songs from this album starting with the first post...

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955)"...

Here are the rest of the songs and some music clips from this film and a couple of instrumentals of the songs from this film...

[swarapriya]

(Rajinder Krishan) Ashiana (1952)

Baby Sadhana, the future heroine of many successful films, starred in this film playing the role of Nargis when she was a child. Here are the songs from this album...

[HarshBhatt]

Thanks for the wonderful collection

[swarapriya]

Thanks for the wonderful collection

Thank you kindly Harshji. You've always been supportive of my efforts. I appreciate it a great deal.

Cheers,
S

[swarapriya]

(Shailendra) Baadshah (1954)

Aparesh Lahiri, who sang the solo in this album “Jaage Mera Dil Soye Zamaana”, was a famous Bengali playback singer. He (see the attached picture) is the father of the famous music director and singer Bappi Lahiri. I am not aware of much of his work in Hindi but the solo in this album is outstanding. The way he sang the song it had that melancholic ring of the immortal Saigal Saab that also is Hemantda’s trademark singing.

Speaking of Hemantda, he has a duet and solo that is a dual song in this album. As expected, Hemantda is simply superb. Here are these and other songs from this album…

[swarapriya]

(Shakeel) Diwana (1952)

Here are the songs from this album...