Shair Aur Sargam

(Majrooh) Ramu Dada (1961)

There are several good songs in this otherwise dull crime drama. A rare solo by Kamal Barot is a surprise. Shakeela Bano Bhopali, the queen of qawwali, appears in the film in the qawwali, “Zinda Hai”. My favorite of the album is the solo by Mukeshji, “Babum”.

The titles list Asha as one of the singers. I don’t believe any of the songs listed in the table below has Asha’s voice in it. If there is another song in this film that is by Asha, I am requesting members to share with rest of us if they can. Thank you.

A note on the two duets by Lata and Rafi Saab, “Daal Bhi De Palkon Ki” and “Daal Bhi De Zulfon Ki”. The first song is in the film. Interesting thing is that these two are identical except everywhere “Palkon” appears in the first duet, in the other duet it is replaced by “Zulfon”. If anyone has any idea how this came about, please share with us. Thanks.

Here are these songs and others from this film…

As per HFGK, there are 2 more songs without any credits "AAYI HAIN DIWALI PATANGA NACHE" & "ADAYEIN CHODO GARIBON SE". Records are not available. Maybe Asha appears in one of these or both the songs. Swarasha by Vishwas Nerurkar also doesn't list Ramu Dada as playback movie for Asha.

Thanks Viraj for following up on this. Cheers.

(Rajinder Krishan) Aangan (1959)

Asha’s “Ujdi Maa” is a standout song of this album. It seems like I am missing two songs shown in red italics in the table below. I am requesting members to share these songs if they can. Thank you.

Here are “Ujdi Maa” and five other songs from this film…

(Shailendra) Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960)

Here is a motion picture that was an ode to truth, honesty, love, and redemption. In spite of all the good intentions, the movie’s preachiness eventually gets on your nerves. One of the great things of this movie was and still is its magnificent music by the incomparable duo Shankar & Jaikishan. It is not just all of those popular and beautiful songs but the background musical score as well that was simply outstanding. There are several dazzling dance sequences (mostly by Padmini) in the film that was accompanied by equally ebullient orchestration. The music directors Shankar & Jaikishan were nominated in the Filmfare Best Music Director category but lost to Ravi for “Gharana”. The music for “Gharana” was fine but the music for “Ganga” was out of this league. It had that scope of music including background score only a handful of Hindi films are in such a select company. One such film immediately comes to mind is “Pakeezah (1972)’ which had music by Ghulam Mohammed and Naushad Saab. That movie also suffered the same fate. Shamefully no awards.

Here are other Filmfare awards won by this film. Raj Kapoor won the award as the Best Actor. Padmini was nominated as the Best Actress but lost to Vyjayanti Mala in “Gunga Jumna”. I think Padmini was a great dancer and had only limited talent as an actress. But she got an opportunity in this film to show her histrionics. She came through in flying colors with several memorable dances to her credit. The other Filmfare Awards went to G.G. Mayekar as the Best Editor and M.R. Acharekar in the Best Art Direction category. Shailendra was nominated for the title song but lost to Shakeel Saab for the romantically beautiful song “Husnwaale Tera Jawaab Nahin”. Mukesh also was nominated for the title song but lost to Rafi Saab for the same song “Husnwaale” from “Gharana”.

The movie was directed by Radhu Karmakar (see the attached picture below), who was the cinematographer for most of early Raj Kapoor films. He worked with RK from “Awaara (1951)” through “Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985)” and had the distinction of winning many awards in his brilliant career. Interestingly this was the only movie Karmakarji directed.

As stated earlier, I am so fond of not only the songs but its background music that I am going overboard here by including several back-to-back posts, five to be exact. The first two posts contain all of the songs from the film. The third post contains several music clips. The fourth post contains a couple of specials and a couple of version songs. Finally, the fifth and the last post contains several instrumentals of the popular song “O Basanti Pawan Paagal”.

The songs begin starting in the next post…

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) - Post 1 (Songs)

Here are some of the songs from this film...

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) - Post 2 (Songs)

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

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) - Post 3 (Music Clips)

This film has not only an outstanding music for its songs but the entire background score for the film is also at the same level. To prove this point I am uploading several music clips below...

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) - Post 4 (Specials)

Here are some specials related to the songs from this film and a couple of version songs...

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) - Post 5 (Instrumentals)

Here are a few instrumentals of the outstanding song, "O Basanti Pawan Paagal", of Lataji from the film...

(Anand Bakshi) Do Raaste (1969)

The year 1969 was the year of Rajesh Khanna. Hitherto unknown, these two films were released that year, Shakti Samanta’s “Aradhana” and Raj Khosla’s “Do Raaste”. Both of them went onto celebrate golden jubilees elevating Khanna to super stardom. Interestingly, the directors for both the films were noted for making crime thrillers. In Samanta’s case he decided to go with an appealing human drama. In Khosla’s case he went along with a family drama.

Watching “Do Raaste” now I must admit I was very disappointed. It was a routine story of a joint family, which was generally a trademark of many South Indian remakes. There were too many loose ends in the film. Bindu, as a “bad” one arriving into the family, had too much of screen time leaving very little time for the principals. Also, Mumtaz and Bindu played sisters in the film. Except for one small scene there was no interaction between the sisters. In the second half of the movie it was not Sahni Saab, not Khanna, not Mumtaz, but mostly Bindu. As she ill-treats the rest of the family, everyone except Khanna’s character tolerate the abuse and suffer silently. I am so surprised that the movie was such a box-office hit and went on to celebrate a golden jubilee.

However there is one thing that was going for the film. Its music. LP’s music was simply outstanding. Most songs became chartbusters. For top honors there is a tie between Kishoreda’s solo “Mere Naseeb” and Rafi Saab’s “Yeh Reshmi”. My personal favorite is “Yeh Reshmi Zulfein”.

Another thing about the film. The movie starts with Saigal Saab’s great song from the 1937 movie “President”. It is played on and off several times during the movie. It also ends with it followed by a repeat of brief version of the song “Bindiya”.

I am uploading this and rest of the songs from the film in the first post. The second post contains some version songs and a few instrumentals.

Here are the songs in the first post…

A Few Version Songs & Some Instrumentals of "Do Raaste (1969)"...

Here are a few version songs and some instrumentals of popular songs from the film...

(Hasrat Jaipuri) Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960)

Songs from this film were recently uploaded in this very thread. They are available starting at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...mp;#entry744319




This post has been edited by swarapriya: Sep 21 2015, 06:45 PM

(Majrooh) Ankh Micholi (1962)

This is another crime drama that was done badly. There was too much clowning around spread throughout the movie that diluted the suspense. Chitraguptji came up with a couple of good songs; Geetaji’s “Tumhi Ne” and Mukeshji’s “Woh Toh”. Especially the song by Mukesh is simply superb. Geetaji is her usual self in the only song she sang for the movie. It almost sounds like her other hit song “O Baabu O Laala” from the 1958 film “Dilli Ka Thug”. That song also was written by Majrooh Saab but was composed by Ravi. Actor Jagdish Raj, looking young and ruggedly handsome, playing an inspector for the umpteenth time, had winning presence.

Here are these and other songs and a couple of music clips from the film…

(Rajinder Krishan) Baap Bete (1959)

Interestingly a couple of songs from this Madan Mohanji’s album sound like those from the hit film Usha Khanna’s “Dil Deke Dekho”. The songs are “Bol Bol” which sounds like “Dilruba Meri Neeta” and the music for “Mere Dil” has the similar orchestrization like the title song of “Dil Deke Dekho”. But both of these movies were released during the same year, 1959. It must be a strange coincidence. Here are these and other songs from this film…