Shair Aur Sargam

Thanks for the clarification Taiyab. Cheers. -S

(Shailendra) Shree 420 (1955)

This was another fine offering from the great film craftsman Raj Kapoor. It was a joint collaboration between Raj Kapoor and K.A. Abbas, who were so successful with their previous venture “Awara (1951)”. This movie was a precursor to "Jagte Raho" which came just one year after “420”. Both movies had almost parallel themes. A stranger comes to a new town and loses his way in the big city. In the case of 420, the stranger was an educated man with a simple heart. Soon he finds the urge for making some quick money irresistible and is lured into doing shady work. This was the story of a man caught in conflict between the good conscience stemming from high self-esteem on one side and enticing material aspirations on the other side. In the end his good nature prevails and his true love triumphs.

The movie has some of the most memorable music composed by Shankar & Jaikishan. Each song is a sparkling gem. The song "Mera Joota Hai" was an international phenomenon. One of the most beautifully picturized romantic scene in rain was the song "Pyaar Hua". Young Rishi Kapoor makes a brief appearance in this song. "Ramayya Vastavayya" was another song that was a rage. "Vastavayya" is a Telugu word meaning "will you come?” Shankar, with his Hyderabad background, had songs sprinkled with an occasional Telugu word (for example the song “Naach Re Mann Batkamma” in “Rajkumar (1964)” – “Batkamma” is Telugu word and the “Hum Kaale Hain” from “Gumnaam (1965)”. This song contains the word “Tandaana”, a Telugu word). A newspaper account said that Shankar, a longtime resident of Hyderabad, while driving in the city streets heard some construction workers singing a song and humming this word. He decided to use the word right away in the “Ramayya” song he was composing at that time.

Shailendra also recounts how "Mud Mud Ke" song came about. One fine evening he was taking a stroll in a park in Mumbai with his friends Shankar and Jaikishan. They couldn’t help notice a beautiful woman who happened to come across their path. Jaikishan, still a bachelor, turned back several times to get another glimpse of the woman. This gave inspiration to Shailendra to create the song on the spot. Incidentally, both Shailendra and Jaikishan appear briefly in the film. Jaikishan was in two scenes as a boyfriend of Nadira. He could be seen in the song “Mud Mud Ke” shaking hand with Raj.

Interestingly, even though Mukesh was settled by this time as the voice of Raj, Shankar & Jaikishan utilize the talent of Manna Dey in three songs for him for playback. These are absolute delights, the solo “Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwaala”, and the duets “Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh” and “Pyaar Hua Ikraar Hua”. Especially the duet “Pyaar Hua” is a song for the ages. It is one lovely romantic song with some unforgettable music. The vibes from this song leave you with a glowing youthful feeling.

I am uploading these songs, some specials, and several instrumentals of the songs in back-to-back five posts. The first two posts contain songs and some music clips from the film. The third post also contains few specials. The final two posts contain several instrumentals.

A note about the song “Pyaar Hua”. This appears in two versions in the second post. The shorter version is from an original soundtrack album. The second, longer version is from the movie itself. However, this one is not available on any CD I know of or any DVD. It has some extra vocals that are absent from the other two media. Unfortunately the audio of this extra from 2:09 to 2:32 is weak and easily noticeable from rest of the song. Apart from that blemish rest of the song is in good shape.

Here are the details of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves …

Concluding Songs from "Shree 420 (1955)"...

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

Some Specials of "Shree 420 (1955)"...

Here are some specials related to songs from this film...

Instrumentals of the Songs from "Shree 420 (1955)"...

Here are some of the instrumentals of the songs from this fine musical...

More Instrumentals of the Songs from "Shree 420 (1955)"...

Here are some more instrumentals of the songs from this great album...

(Shakeel) Rukhsana (1955)

These are all the songs from this album except for one. I am requesting members to share the missing song shown in red italics in the table below. Thank you.

Now the songs from this album...

(Anand Bakshi) Badshah (1964)

This Dara Singh-starrer was a black & white movie with all songs and the climax picturized in colour. This was the vogue in 60’s with colour films just becoming popular. Many producers used to shoot songs in colour as during these times availability of colour film was tight and there were too may governmental restrictions on importing colour film. For people like Mehboob Khan (“Aan” in 1952) and Sohrab Modi (“Jhansi ki Rani” in 1953) this was not a problem. These folks had high level political influence (for example Mehboob Khan was a friend of then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru). But B-grade film makers, like this one, for lack of colour film availability were forced to shoot their films only partly in colour.

Of the six songs in this film five were sung by Asha. She had four solos and a duet with Purnima Seth. In 60’s the Qawwali Queen Shakeela Bano Bhoplai used to make frequent appearances in films to sing qawwalis. Even though she can sing for herself, in this film she did not. In the DVD from which I ripped all these songs, it appeared like the qawwali, “Mohabbat Mein Agar Daaman” is not complete. Here is this and other songs from this film…

thanks swarapriya for BADSHAH . i was missing few songs
i am uploading full version of the song
64-badshah-nigahain aur chahain--mohobbat main -asha & puran seth-n dutta-anand bakshi-192 br-6.13 min

That is absolutely great. Thank you very very much Taiyab. You did it again. Cheers.

S

(Hasrat) Pooja (1954)

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=507

Dear Swarapriya & Usrafian
definately very pleasant Qawwali
according to HFGK this qawwali is sung by Mannadewy Rafi Sahab Lataji & asha ji.
if you hear it is sure Lataji,s voice.
althaough HFGK gives one version solo of Mannaday part ??
taiyab

Dear Swarapriya
According to HFGK DEKHO DEKHO YE GOKUL KA CHOR is not mentioned under CHACHA CHOWDHRY Title.
Can somebody identify this song.
thanks

My Dear Taiyab,

I am pretty sure this song is taken from this film's DVD. I am not able to verify this at this moment but I believe that I got it from this film's DVD. When I have time I will verify if this is the case or not.

Cheers,
S