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[SKG]

Jay Ji,

Nice catch on the impromptu tabla. Normally, our beloved heroes and heroines move their hands on any musical instrument they are supposedly playing in a manner that reminds me of "kahin pe nigaahen (aur haath), kahin pe nishaana". However, the lady playing the sitar in the video seems to be playing the sitar part note for note (at least to my untrained eyes). I have never seen such a perfect "rendition" by anyone on the screen before.

Just an observation.

Even more perfect rendition of Sitar was by Dilip Kumar in Kohinoor ("Madhuban Mein Radhika" & "Dhal Chuki Sham-e-Gham"). He had actually learnt to play Sitar for that movie. Also Rajendra Kumar learnt to play Shehnai from Ustad Bismillah Khan for the movie Goonj Uthi Shehnai.

[maheshks]

One of the greatest bhajans sung by Geeta Dutt.

Ghoonghat ke pat khol re tohe piya milenge

Singer geeta dutt

movie jogan(1950)

lyrics meera bai (not the original bhajan some changes have been made by pandit ramesh shastri)

music bulo c rani

song picturised on nargis and dilip kumar

[jaykoshal]

One of the greatest bhajans sung by Geeta Dutt.

Ghoonghat ke pat khol re tohe piya milenge

Singer geeta dutt

movie jogan(1950)

lyrics meera bai (not the original bhajan some changes have been made by pandit ramesh shastri)

music bulo c rani

song picturised on nargis and dilip kumar

Thanks again, Sharama ji.

Geeta has done a great job, however, I think Juthika Roy is unmatched on this song.

Whereas, when it comes to Mutt ja jogi, Geeta wins by a mile.

But, your hard work in providing these clips has made all of us win by miles.

Jay

[urzung khan]

One of the greatest bhajans sung by Geeta Dutt.

Ghoonghat ke pat khol re tohe piya milenge

Singer geeta dutt

movie jogan(1950)

lyrics meera bai (not the original bhajan some changes have been made by pandit ramesh shastri)

music bulo c rani

song picturised on nargis and dilip kumar

An evergreen classic. buhat buhat shukariya.

[urzung khan]

One of the greatest bhajans sung by Geeta Dutt.

Ghoonghat ke pat khol re tohe piya milenge

Singer geeta dutt

movie jogan(1950)

lyrics meera bai (not the original bhajan some changes have been made by pandit ramesh shastri)

music bulo c rani

song picturised on nargis and dilip kumar

Thanks again, Sharama ji.

Geeta has done a great job, however, I think Juthika Roy is unmatched on this song.

Whereas, when it comes to Mutt ja jogi, Geeta wins by a mile.

But, your hard work in providing these clips has made all of us win by miles.

Jay

I think Geeta Roy is miles ahead of all others who have sung this bhajan.

urzung khan

[urzung khan]

Here is another beautiful composition by Shyam Sunder (music directors khaiyyam and ravi rate him as one of the greatest music directors in hindi cinema). He was the man under whom Rafi Saab sang his first punjabi as well as hindi cinema songs(soniye hiriye in gul baloch and dil ho qaabu main in village girl).

A beautiful westernised type of song:

CHHALAK RAHA HAI NIGAHHON SE PYAR THODA SA

WOH KAR GAYE HAIN HAMEIN BEKRAAR THODA SA

SINGER SULOCHNA KADAM

MOVIE DHOLAK (1951)

LYRICS AZIZ KASHMIRI

MUSIC SHYAM SUNDER

THE SONG IS PICTURISED ON MEENA SHOREY

ek aur request poori karne ki badi nawaazish.
agar is gaane ki dhun chori ki gayi hai, to asli
(western) gaanaa kaun saa hai ?
SK ki maadri zuban kaun si thi ?

urzung khan

[maheshks]

Koshal Saab..shukriya

Urzung Saab...I donot think that the song...chhalak raha hai..was based on any western song.

Mother tongue of Sulochana Kadam (now Sulochana Chavan) is Marathi. She was born in Mumbai on 17.03.1933.

This one is amongst my favourites of Geeta Roy

YE KAUN AAYA KE MERE DIL KI DUNIYA MAIN BAHAAR AAYI

SINGER GEETA ROY

LYRICS SAHIR LUDHIYANVI

MUSIC S D BARMAN

MOVIE BAAZI (1951)

SONG PICTURISED ON KALPANA KARTIK (REAL NAME MONA SINGA LATER ON SHE BECAME MRS DEV ANAND)..OTHER NOTICEABLE PERSONS ARE K N SINGH AND KRISHAN DHAWAN (THE POLICE MAN). THIS MOVIE WAS PRODUCED BY DEV ANAND, DIRECTED BY GURU DUTT AND STORY, SCREENPLAY AND DIALOGUES BY BALRAAJ SAHNI.

Enjoy

[Pulkit]

A quick browsing through this thread revealed uploads and information about actress Meena Shorey. Here is another interesting autobiographical sketch of her-

For today's generation, the name Meena Shorey may mean nothing,
but music lovers would definitely remember the ever-popular
song "Lara Lappa" from the film "Ek Thi Ladki". The film,
which starred Meena Shorey opposite the debonair Motilal, was
a huge success.
Some years back, a vernacular magazine had published an inter-
view with the (late) actress where she had talked about her
life and film career. An English rendition of this autobio-
graphical sketch is given below :
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My real name is Khursheed Jahan. I had two sisters and a brother.
Wazir Begum was my elder sister. Rukhsana and Siddique were
younger to me. Our father Mian Barkat Ali was an agriculturist
from Multan. But due to his irresponsible ways, all lands had
to be sold off one by one, and ultimately we shifted to Lahore.
Here, he started a dyeing business, but this too failed. Money
problems led to domestic squabbles and things became very very
difficult. My elder sister then got married to one Aslam, who
was from Bombay and had some connections with the film industry.
After some time, she called our mother and the other siblings
to come over and live with her in Bombay. Rather than feel
sad, my father was in fact happy at getting rid of his "liabi-
lities". Soon afterwards, he remarried.


Times were hard. Bombay was a much costlier city. I wanted to
join the film industry. Once I accompanied my brother-in-law
Aslam to attend the muhurat of a film. It was Sohrab Modi's
"Sikandar". One of my friends had loaned me a beautiful dress
to wear. Though I was only about 12 years at the time, I looked
a little older and was the cynosure of all eyes at the studio
set which was very crowded. Some people even thought that I was
the heroine of the film. Actually, Vanmala had been cast in this
film opposite Prithviraj Kapoor. Sohrab Modi was busy in arranging
the lights etc. but, seeing the commotion, he came to where we
stood, looked me over, and straightway told Aslam that he wanted
to cast me in his next film. He said that he was in fact on the
look-out for a beautiful girl like me, who could pose a worth-
while challenge to Naseem Banu, who was renowned for her beauty.
I was of course overjoyed and succeeded in persuading my mother
to let me join films and thus my career began.


Sohrab Modi got me to sign an agreement where, he told me, there
was a stupulation that I couln't accept any outside film for one
year. This film (made by Sohrab Modi) was a great hit and my
career was really launched. It was the beginning of a very
happy and prosperous period. We moved into a new house. There
were lots of offers which I couldn't accept. The well-known
Director-Producer Mehboob Khan wasnted to cast me in his film
"Humayun" and even spoke to Sohrab Modi but the latter refused
to release me from his contract. In his next film "Prithvi
Vallabh", I was cast opposit a very handsome actor Al-Nasir.
We fell in love and got married. The film too proved very
successful. Life couldn't have been better.


Around this time, a film-maker Roop K. Shorey came to Bombay
from Lahore. He wanted to cast me in his new film "Shalimar"
but my contract with Sohrab Modi again came in the way.
Instead, Begum Para did the film, opposite Chandramohan. In
those days, Bombay film-stars often visited Lahore, which was
another big film centre. On one such visit, I met Dalsukh
Pancholi. He announced two films "Shehr se Door" and "Arsi"
where I was to star as the leading lady. But, after the
shooting had begun, Sohrab Modi sent a legal notice to me and
Pancholi, claiming damages of Rs. 3 lakhs. I was surprised, as
the one-year period was long over. It turned out that Modi
had taken advantage of my being illiterate and fraudulently
altered the restrictive provision from one to three years.
I came back to Bombay and pleaded with Modi not to destroy my
film career but he refused to budge. For about an year, I had
to remain idle. Then, Modi demanded Rs. 60,000/- from me as
his price for releasing me from the contract. I met his wife,
Mehtab, and requested her to intercede on my behalf. Ultimately,
the matter was resolved on payment of Rs. 30,000/-. I then
returned to Lahore.


My husband Al-Nasir remained behind in Bombay and continued to
work in films. He was a philanderer and had relations with many
women, betraying my faith and love. First, he befriended
Kuldip Kaur, who say through his game. After some time, he
married Manorama but left her soon. Then he married Veena.
Faced with this situation, I obtained a divorce from him.


In Lahore, I began shooting for Pancholi's "PatJhar" with a new
leading man. Geeta Bali too was cast in the movie. It was
only half-completed when the country was partitioned and
Pakistan came into being. Since I had several films lined up
in Bombay, I decided to go back there, along with my family.
I acted in films like "Actress". "Kale Badal" and "Dukhiari".
In those days, I lived in a flat near Shivaji Park. Majnu,
a comedian and character-actor, also lived nearby. He told
me that, following Partition, Director Roop Shorey had come
to Bombay and was living in a hotel. Financially, he was so
hard up that he had no money to even pay his hotel bills. I
felt very sad. I had seen him in his heyday. He was a very
generous man and had helped me in my early career. I had also
acted in his film "Rut Rangeeli". On hearing of his plight,
I went to see him, paid off all his bills and brought him to
live in my flat. I suggested to him that he could resume
film-making and promised to finance his ventures. Shorey's
next film, made with my finance, was "Chaman" and it was quite
successful. Om Prakash had acted in this movie. Then,
Shorey made "Ek Thi Ladki", where the biggest hero of the day,
Motilal, acted opposite me. The film was hugely successful and
its song "Lara Lappa" became a phenomenal hit. Right from the
days of our earlier association, I had felt a sort of gratitude
towards Shorey. In Bombay, we became very good friends. Once,
we went to Calcutta, where he proposed to me. Though he was
already married, I was told that the (bigamy) laws were not
applicable in Bengal. Accordingly, we decided to get married
in Calcutta. He was in fact prepared to become a Muslim. But,
in order to repay him for all his past favours, I decided to
marry him according to Hindu rites. Thus I became Meena Shorey.


In 1954, the Pakistani film industry started a fierce agitation
against Indian films, although Indian films and film-stars
remained very popular with the Pakistani people. Two years
later, I decided to come over to Pakistan and straightway began
receiving film offers. My first film here was "Miss 1956",
which was made in Karachi. On its release, I came to be known
as the topmost heroine in Pakistan. Then a well-known film-maker
Anwar Kamal Pasha signed me on for his film "Sarfarosh", where
I had to play a Princess. A great many costly costumes were got
prepared for the role. Just then, I came to Bombay for a few
days to meet my husband (Sorey). In my absence, another Pakis-
tani actress Sabeeha Khanam plotted against me and got my part
changed to that of a bandit queen. Feeling outraged, I declined
the film. But then I relented, when the producer's father
Hakim Shuja Pasha came to my house and pleaded with me to save
him and his son from financial ruin.


Time continued to elapse. I met actor Asad Bukhari when he was
cast opposite me in "Jamalo". We fell in love and got married
during the making of this film. But he proved to be a most
selfish person. For his sake, I made another film which bombed
at the box office. Although he didn't spend a single paisa on
this film, he started distancing himself from me. Once when
we met in a studio, he even went to th extent of denying our
marriage. All this broke my heart and I decided to leave the
film industry for good.


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Note : This interview was done in 1985. Meena Shorey died on
the 13th September 1987.

[maheshks]

Pulkit thanks for this rare article enlightening us on the life of Meena Shorey.

I have both the movies Sikandar as well as Prithvi Vallabh on VHS..will try to find how did she look like in these movies (both were released much earlier to ek thi ladki) and who was that al nasir (unknown name for me).

Meawhile, here is a classic from Talat Mehmood

MEIN PAAGAL MERA MANWA PAAGAL

SINGER TALAT MEHMOOD

MOVIE AASHIANA(1952)

MUSIC MADAN MOHAN

LYRICS RAJINDER KRISHAN

ACTORS THE SONG IS PICTURISED ON RAJ KAPOOR. THE OTHER MAN IS RANDHIR

ENJOY

[Pulkit]

Mahesh you are most welcome. Don't remember her in Sikander but a beautiful girl from Prithvi Vallabh comes to mind. I guess the song- 'raam naam dhan paayaa maine' was picturized on her. Al Naseer seems to be the chap who had to pretend as a poet/singer in the film though he was playing the prince. However, apart from aesthetical joys what captivated me the most in the film was great performance by Durga Khote as princess Mrinal.

[Ummer]

Al-Nasir also appeared in Guru Dutt-Madhubala starrer "Mr and Mrs 55". He is the guy at the beginning of the film with whom Madhubala flirts.

One more correction. Meena never left film industry, she appeared as late as 1979 in bit roles in Pakistani films.

Ummer.

[sri]

SONG FROM MADHU BALA'S FIRST MOVIE AS HEROINE
How many can recognise her?
BHOOL JAATE HAIN BHOOL JAYA KAREN
AAJMAATE HAIN AAJMAAYA KAREN
SINGER RAAJKUMARI
MOVIE NEEL KAMAL (1947)
MUSIC B VASUDEV (SNEHAL BHATKAR)
LYRICS KIDAR SHARMA
Song picturised on Mumtaz {madhu bala's real name shown in the movie}

Mahesh,
very strangely ...I seem to have missed this one !! dont know how !
could you pl re u'l or PM to me ?

many thanks ...as usual for your very interesting and excellent video uploads !

Sri

[maheshks]

Sri Bhai I have PM the video clip to you.

In the memory of yesteryears actress NADIRA who passed away this morning in Mumbai.

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...=0&#entry220262


TUJHE KHO DIYA HAMNE JAANE KE BAAD
TERI YAAD AAYI TERE JAANE KE BAAD

song is picturised on nadira
singer lata mangeshkar
movie aan (1952)......this was her first movie.
music naushad
lyrics shakeel badayuni

[fiftysomeone]

In the memory of yesteryears actress NADIRA who passed away this morning in Mumbai.
TUJHE KHO DIYA HAMNE JAANE KE BAAD
TERI YAAD AAYI TERE JAANE KE BAAD
song is picturised on nadira
singer lata mangeshkar
movie aan (1952)......this was her first movie.

Amazing to see colour way back in 1952! Was it just this song or the entire movie?
Would be great to have the Mud Mud Ke Dekh video too!
Thx.

[Pulkit]

The entire movie was coloured