This photo was taken in the grand "Show" in Liberty Cinema in Mumbai in 1957 where all the great legends came in one platform for the show organised by the Film Industry.



This rare event "Show" was organised in the year 1957 in Liberty Cinema in Mumbai whereas all the great legends came once in one platform.

In First Photo:
A rare photo of all the singing greats at the start of their careers - Talat Mahmood, Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Geeta Dutt, GM Durrani, Meena Kapoor, Kamal Barot, Mubarak Begum and others


A rare photo of all the singers together in the early years of their singing careers !
( front row) Zohrabai Jan, Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnatki, Hamida Banu, Geeta Roy (later Geeta Dutt), Lata Mangeshkar, Meena Kapoor, (and standing behind) Sailesh Mukherjee, Talat Mahmood, Dilip Dholakia, Mohd. Rafi, Shiv Dayal Batish, G.M. Durrani, Kishore Ganguli (later Kishore Kumar), Hemant Kumar and Mukesh.

This photos was taken one time only.

This calendar photo from the film "Padosan" was published in the Screen in this month.

Great Upload Shashankji!!

Nice contribution Shasank Bhai.

thee event was held in 1953.

regards,
mahesh

Excellent collection, Shashank Ji. Makes one feel nostalgic!

Venkat

here is meena kapoor reminiscing about the event-

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........Another afternoon, I heard someone ringing the doorbell
frantically, I ran to the door to open it. I found Geeta again who just
pushed me aside to come in and said "You lazybone, kab se bell baja
rahi hoon, Ek dam buddhu!"


Me : Phir tumne mujhe buddhu raha!
Geeta: Sorry Sorry (She always used to insist that I call her Didi
which I flatly refused)


Geeta: Don't you remember? We have to attend the meeting of
PBSA(Playback Singer's Association) where it will be decided on how
to raise some funds for the old singing artists in distress.


AND....we did, stage a grand show at Bombay's liberty cinema. Where
we both (Geeta and I) had to perform a dance on the song Madhu gandha
bhare by Tagore, sung live by Lata Mangeshkar and Hemant Kumar. And a
small play in which Talat Mahmood, GM Durrani, Geeta Roy and I had to
take part.


The last item was a parody in which right from Amirbai Karnataki, Lata
Mangeshkar, Geeta Roy, Mukesh, Talat Mahmood, Kishore Kumar, Hemant
Kumar and yours truly had taken part.


Each of us had to sing a few line from one of our popular numbers with
funny gesticulation. All of us had to stand in a line on stage, one by
one had to come forward at the centre of the stage sing his/her part
and go back and join the line again.


Amirbai Karnataki came first holding a dagger in her hand singing on of
her very famous numbers Mar Katari Mar Jaana (Shehnai, music C
Ramachandra)
Geeta came in a white saree making a very sad face almost sobbing
singing her very popular number from Do Bhai (Music SD Burman) Mera
Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya. Mukesh came hitting his chest and lit a
matchstick, singing Dil Jalta Hai To Jalne De (Music Anil Biswas).
Kishore did some yodeling jumped all over the stage and came back to
join the line as those days he used to feel very nervous singing on
stage. Lata Mangeshkar sang Aayega aane wala from Mahal (music
Khemchand Prakash). Talat Mahmood again with a very sad face Aye Dil
Mujhe Aisi Jagah Le Chal from Aarzoo, (Music Anil Biswas). I sang Mori
Atariya Pe Kaga Bole from Aakhen, (Music Madan Mohan) with some very
funny movements.


Oh it was hilarious!


The year was 1953

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regards,
mahesh

Nice Photos, thanks for sharing

Nopes. The year was 1951 ( PBSA). And Kishore did sing in the show, albeit his antics made more impact on the audience.
FYI, Kishore sang only once before that , on Stage, in 1948 ( before he sang for Ziddi - cannot recall the month now but can find out from my notes ). After 1951, Kishore never sang on stage, till his legendary beginning in the late 60's.

Thanks Maheshji for the detail information given by u to us all. Really grt8. thanx everybody also.

Shashank bhai special thanks to you for giving us a chance to get a glimpse of these pics.