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(Shakeel) Amber (1952)

I am uploading songs from this album in two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 23 2013, 11:49 AM

Concluding Songs from "Amber (1952)"...

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

(Hasrat Jaipuri) Anarkali (1953)

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=305

(Javed Akhtar) Duniya (1984)

Here are the songs from this fine album...

(Majrooh) Waris (1954)

Here are the songs from this album...

(Rajinder Krishan) Sagai (1951)

Here are the songs from this album...

(Shailendra) Patita (1953)

This is one of the fine movies directed by Amiya Chakrabarty. It came on the heels of his award-winning and successful "Daag" from previous year. Like in "Daag", songs for this film were also composed by Shankar & Jaikishan.

Part of the success of the film was thanks to several chart busters from the film. I am uploading these in three back-to-back posts. The first post contains all songs from the film. The next two posts contain several instrumentals of the popular songs from the film.

Here are the songs in the first post...

Some Instrumentals of Songs from "Patita (1953)"...

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

Concluding Instrumentals of Songs from "Patita (1953)"...

Here are some more instrumentals of the popular song "Yaad Kiya"...

(Shakeel) Baiju Bawra (1952)

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

Baiju Bawra's music was a milestone in the film industry. It may be the most magnificent music ever composed for a film. In every song there is genius of Naushadji. In every word there is richness of lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni Saab. And there is Rafi Saab's most magnificent voice elevated to a stage that nobody ever heard before or since then. The music of this film takes you on a journey to worlds never gone or experienced before. It is sweet & bitter, melodious & melancholic and heartwarming & heart wrenching. No wonder its music was chosen recently to commemorate 100 years of Indian Cinema as the “Album of the Century”. This is a worthy and great honour for some of the best ever music composed for a film.

Here is a brief description of some of the personalities associated with this great film (see the attachment below for pictures of these folks)…

Vijay Bhatt

“Baiju Bawra” was produced and directed by Vijay Bhatt. The critic S.M.M. Ausaja described Bhatt’s illustrious life and times as “a man’s kaleidoscopic journey towards achieving his creative nirvana”. That just about aptly describes in one simple statement this magnificent achievement that is “Baiju Bara”. Coming from humble beginnings, Vijay Bhatt and his older brother Shankarbhai Bhatt moved to Bombay seeking theater related work. Subsequently they ended up writing screenplays for movies. Soon after this they decided to establish their own studios. They called it “Prakash Studios” and started making movies under the banner “Prakash Pictures”.

The first movie they released in 1934 was called “Actress”. This was a huge success. Then they started making movies in both Hindi and Gujarati. Some of the movies they made were “Bombay Mail (1935)”, “Challenge (1936)”, “His Highness (1937)”, “State Express (1938)”, and “Bijli (1939)”. They launched a new hero, Zakaria Khan who was a police officer, renamed him Jayant (father of that great actor Amjad Khan of “Sholay (1975)” fame), in “Bombay Mail”. Jayant also starred in all subsequent movies of Prakash Pictures through 1939. Almost all these movies were financially successful.

Vijay Bhatt brought in Babubhai Mistry, a poster painter, to do trick shots for one of his movies called “Dreamland (1936)”. Bhatt made “Leatherface” in 1939 and introduced a child artiste named Mehajabeen. The child artiste grew up to be the great actress Meena Kumari.

When Bhatt visited Mahatma Gandhi at his ashram, Mahatma suggested that Bhatt make a movie on the Gujarati saint and poet Narsi Mehta. As a result he made “Narsi Bhagat” in 1940 both in Gujarati as well as Hindi. The movie became a huge hit. Buoyed by the success of “Narsi Bhagat” Bhatt decided to turn his attention to Hindu epics. He made several movies on Rama. These include “Bharat Milap (1942)”, “Ram Rajya (1943)”, “Rambaan (1948)”, and “Bal Ramayan (1956)”. Apparently “Ram Rajya” was the only movie Mahatma Gandhi ever saw in his entire life!

Vijay Bhatt also made historical or semi-historical dramas such as “Vikramaditya (1945)”, “Baiju Bawra (1952)”, “Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1954)”, and “Angulimala (1960)”.

Bhatt also gave a major break to Naushadji. Naushadji’s debut film “Prem Nagar (1940)” was not a success. He was looking for a break when he met Vijay Bhatt. Bhatt signed him for his movie “Mala (1941)” as the music director. Subsequently Naushadji also scored music for three other Bhatt’s movies; “Dushman (1941)”, “Station Master (1942)”, and “Baiju Bawra (1952)”.

Bhatt originally planned to have Nargis and Dilip Kumar to play the lead roles in “Baiju Bawra”. But both actors were so busy that they couldn’t accommodate dates for Bhatt. Meena Kumari, whom Bhatt introduced as a child star in “Leatherface” was making mostly B-grade movies such as costume dramas or mythological movies until “Baiju”. He decided to rope in Meenaji to play the lead and signed Bharat Bhushan to play the male lead opposite her.

Bhatt was also instrumental in giving a boost to the careers of Rajendra Kumar (“Goonj Uthi Shehnnai (1958)”) and Manoj Kumar (“Hariyali Aur Rasta (1962)”).

Vijay Bhatt was active making movies for a long time. His last directorial venture was “Heera Aur Patthar” made in 1977. He was 86 when he passed away in 1993.

Naushad

Naushad was already an established and a well-known music director by the time he was signed to provide music for “Baiju Bawra”. He already gave music to some 30+ movies by that time. Most of these movies had many popular songs that are remembered even today. In his lifetime Naushadji gave music to 74 movies. By the time he was signed up to provide music for “Baiju” he already had 43% of his career work completed. “Baiju Bawra” turned out to be his monumental achievement. He garnered Filmfare’s Best Music Director award for his work. It turns out that this was the only movie for which he got this award. Naushadji was a recipient of Padma Bhushan and Dada Saheb Phalke Awards.

Shakeel Badayuni

Shakeel Badayuni was a romantic lyricist at heart. When he was introduced to Naushadji in mid-1940’s he signed Shakeel Saab to write lyrics for his next movie, “Dard (1947)”. The songs of the movie became a huge success and Badayuni Saab arrived. In his lifetime, he wrote songs for about 60 plus movies, most of them for Naushadji. He received Filmfare award as the Best Lyricist three years in a row, in 1961 for “Chaudhvin Ka Chand”, in 1962 for “Gharana”, and in 1963 for “Bees Saal Baad”.

Ustad Amir Khan

Ustad Amir Khan who sang several beautiful classical songs in the movie acted as an advisor for Naushadji. Ustad was born in a family of musicians but as he grew older developed his own singing style. He had many disciples during his lifetime and was a recipient of Padma Bhushan and the Sangeet Natak Academy Awards.

D.V. Paluskar

D.V. Paluskar (known to his close friends as Bapurao), who was part of the jugalbandi with Ustad Amir Khan in “Baiju Bawra”, was a Hindustani classical vocalist and a bhajan singer. Considered a child prodigy, Paluskar passed away at the very young age of 34.

Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari turned her career around with “Baiju”. She received the Best Actress award from Filmfare for her role in the movie. She repeated this very next year with her performance in Bimal Roy’s “Parineeta (1953)”. She won the award twice more, one for the role of Chhoti Bahu in Guru Dutt’s “Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)” and later for “Kaajal (1965)”. After “Baiju” there was no turning back for Meenaji. One after another she portrayed some magnificent roles and established herself as the queen of tragedy. Marred with personal life tragedies, she passed away at the young age of 39.

Bharat Bhushan

Bharat Bhushan struggled early as an actor but “Baiju” established himself as someone worth noticing. Even though he did manage to make an occasional good movie, such as “Basant Bahar (1956)” and “Mirza Ghalib (1954)”, Bhushan was never able to achieve the heights he scaled with “Baiju”.

It is the culmination of so many talented people that created this musical extravaganza called “Baiju Bawra” …

I am uploading songs from this great album and instrumentals of some of the songs from this album in six back-to-back posts. The first three posts contain songs from the film. The last three posts contain several instrumentals.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 31 2013, 12:21 PM

Baiju Bawra (1952) - Post 1 of 6

Here are the songs in this post...

Baiju Bawra (1952) - Post 2 of 6

Here are more songs from this great album...

Baiju Bawra (1952) - Post 3 of 6

This post contains some specials...