Shamshad Begum Or Noorjahan Options

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Hi friends

Here I present a song from Khandaan- Nj movie 1941
This song

"MERI AMMI KA RAJ BHALA " is credited to noorjahan but on listening i am doubtful that it is by shamshad . other sources on net say we have only one song duet " chalo paniya bharan " by shamshad ,noorjahan(which is already u/l). Can anyone clear ,my doubt . It is an old recorded listen with high voulme.

regards

Ashish

[maheshks]

Some more interesting facts about the movie khandan....gathered from the net
This indicates that the song ud ja panchhi was a duet sung by Gulam Haider himself along with noorjahan.




In this film KHANDAN of D.Pancholi's produced in Lahore ,a juvenile
Nurjahan was introduced to the Indian audiences for the first time
after run away success of KHAZANCHI. Gulam Hyder had created 'waves'
with his haunting scores.

KHANDAN too repeated success with scintillating music.Out of
them,there was one redeeming duet rendered by Nurjahan/GH himself and
picturised on the heroine and actor Pran,the hero.The song: Ud jaa
panchi...created ripples in the music biz.Such a tune had never ever
been composed before,creating shock waves in the NT group, in Bombay
too in the Ranjit circle with Jnan Dutt/Khemraj in top form and Anil
Biswas too, for the National Studios and so too in the Prakash Studios
with Shankar Rao Vyas at the helm...Naushad herein was a
Liliputian,mind well!!

The 'asthaayi' itself in Ud jaa,panchee ee ee was an intricate piece
of improvisation that litterally stunned all GH's contemporaries.

One has to bear in mind that during the music making of KHANDAN around
'41,Shyamsundar was in GH's troupe as a violinist.It was Shyamsundar
who was the "first" MD who adapted this Ud jaa... style of 'mukhda' in
his first Bombay venture in Prabhat's NAI KAHANI ('43) in the song
penned by Walli: Aa jaa,aa-jaa;aa aa aaa aa-ja...MD: GH did it on
'panchee' and the 'shagird' did it on 'Aa jaa'