The Three Reigning Queens, Albums of Madhubala, Meena Kumari & Nargis Options

[swarapriya]

(Madhubala) Teerandaz (1955)

Here are the songs from this album ...

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

[swarapriya]

(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 ...

[swarapriya]

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 ...

[Faraaj73]

(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 ...

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.

[swarapriya]

(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 ...

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

[Abdur Rehman]

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

[Faraaj73]

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

[Abdur Rehman]

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

[taiyab53]

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

[swarapriya]

(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 ...

[swarapriya]

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

I am including in this post rest of the songs from the original CD, an extended version song by the courtesy of the Forum members, and a special version of "Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat". Please be warned that the quality of the extended version song, "Jhana Jhana", is very poor. The special version of "Raja" had a nice introduction both by Lata and Raj Kapoor.

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

[swarapriya]

Prema Lekhalu (1953) - A Telugu Film

This movie is Raj Kapoor's "Aah" dubbed in Telugu. Like the Hindi version, this Telugu version also didn't work. I think the Telugu version was released with the revised ending.

All songs in Telugu were a rage. They were written by Arudra, an up and coming writer during that time. Arudra was a nephew of the great Telugu poet and writer Sri Sri. Many wrongfully thought at that time that it was Sri Sri who wrote the songs so that Arudra can gain a foothold in the industry. But subsequent events proved this to be wrong. Arudra became a recognized writer on his own merits. Besides Sri Sri was not much of a romantic writer even though he wrote a few memorable ones.

Some say that Raj got this idea to dub this movie into Telugu from Shankar, one of the music directors of the movie. Shankar, born in Punjab, was raised in Hyderabad. He spoke good Telugu. Raj apparently liked the idea and had the movie dubbed and released in Telugu. (He also released a dubbed version in Tamil as well.)

Here is an interesting side note from one of our fellow member simplefable. He informs that once Raj was vacationing near Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh. He fell in love with the beautiful Paapi Kondalu (Paapi mountain range) and the picturesque outage surrounding the river Godavari. He decided to shoot one of his movies there. Not sure whether he ever did or not.

Most of these songs are from an MP3 album. Interestingly, all Telugu songs are of shorter duration than their original Hindi counterparts. The Telugu film is a dubbed version of the Hindi film. So it is difficult to explain why this is the case.

I am uploading these songs in back-to-back two posts. I have also given for each Telugu song the original Hindi version with time durations for reference.

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

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Prema Lekhalu (1953) - A Telugu Film" ...

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

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 1 2010, 12:57 PM

[Viraj Padhye]

Hi SP,

Thanks a ton for "Prema Lekhalu". I was searching for these songs for a long time.

Adding few tracks in ablum "AAH".

Aaja re ab mera dil pukara - Part 2 - 1.49 m
Jo main janti - Sad version - 1.05
Background music piece (Tune of "Jaane kahan gaye woh din" that was used almost 17 years later) - 0.34m
Title music (Chorus) - 1.07m

All of them in 128 kbps. I hope you will enjoy them.

Regards,
Viraj

[swarapriya]

Hi SP,

Thanks a ton for "Prema Lekhalu". I was searching for these songs for a long time.

Adding few tracks in ablum "AAH".

Aaja re ab mera dil pukara - Part 2 - 1.49 m
Jo main janti - Sad version - 1.05
Background music piece (Tune of "Jaane kahan gaye woh din" that was used almost 17 years later) - 0.34m
Title music (Chorus) - 1.07m

All of them in 128 kbps. I hope you will enjoy them.

Regards,
Viraj

Thank you very much Viraj for sharing these songs with us. Cheers. -S

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 1 2010, 10:54 PM