The Three Reigning Queens, Albums of Madhubala, Meena Kumari & Nargis Options

[swarapriya]

The Three Reigining Queens

One was a beauty queen. Madhubala was her screen name. The other was a tragedy queen. She was known as Meena Kumari to the movie fans. The third one was a romantic queen. She was known as Nargis. All three more or less came into the movie field just about the same time. All of them started as child artistes. They shaped the industry with their charismatic personalities. They showed how to smile, how to bear pain, and how to fall in love. Their personal lives were marred with tragedies. They died very young.

They set aside thier own problems to entertain us in their own inimitable way. They ruled the Hindi film world for nearly three decades, each in her own way. In the next few months we will take a look at the songs from their albums more closely.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Mar 28 2010, 10:26 PM

[swarapriya]

(Meena) Lal Haveli (1944)

Here are songs from this album. All female songs are by the great one, Noor Jehan. I am not sure about the singer of the songs "Ab Raat" and "Kyon Mann". It sounds like Rafi Saab. May be someone can verify this. Thanks.

Now for the songs of "Lal Haveli" ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 16 2009, 01:46 AM

[Aditya Pant]

(Meena) Lal Haveli (1944)

Here are songs from this album. All female songs are by the great one, Noor Jehan. I am not sure about the singer of the songs "Ab Raat" and "Kyon Mann". It sounds like Rafi Saab. May be someone can verify this. Thanks.

Now for the songs of "Lal Haveli" ...

I read somewhere that Teri Yaad Aaye Sanwariya (or some other Noor Jehan song in Lal Haveli) was actually composed by C. Ramchandra, who was Mir Saheb's assistant in this film. Of course, this comes from the pen of the 'great' Raju Bharatan, so the veracity of this claim is questionable. Can some knowledgeable HF emember clarify if the record credits this song to CR?

Aditya

This post has been edited by Aditya Pant: Aug 15 2009, 10:47 PM

[Faraaj73]

I read somewhere that Teri Yaad Aaye Sanwariya (or some other Noor Jehan song in Lal Haveli) was actually composed by C. Ramchandra, who was Mir Saheb's assistant in this film. Of course, this comes from the pen of the 'great' Raju Bharatan, so the veracity of this claim is questionable. Can some knowledgeable HF emember clarify if the record credits this song to CR?

Aditya

I had never heard of Raju Bharatan until seeing your reference to him here. Having googled the name I read some of his articles and the ire directed them. It made for a very diverting hour of fun - the man is a genuine loose cannon! And his writing is all over the place - he can't retain a thought for more than a sentence or two. Which leads me to believe there's great scope for many HF members to consider entering the profession of writing about the 'golden era' and doing a great job!

This post has been edited by Faraaj73: Aug 16 2009, 05:42 PM