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

[madsur]

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!

Faraaj bhai,

The problem with Mr. Raju Bharathan is that he is highly opinionated. In my view, he thinks he knows every thing and compounds it with the conviction that all of that is correct and hence, gospel truth. However, I think this is one of the pitfalls of professional critics. There are very few who wear their knowledge and authority, lightly.

Having said that, it must also be said that, he was, perhaps, IMHO, one of the first people who started to write about VHFM, in the popular press. This view, is, of course, subject to correction by better informed members, such as Aditya. And, even today, I have not come across any informed writing in the popular press about HFM in general & VHFM in particular, except cursory reviews of music discs. He has, certainly, cultivated the interest in VHFM in a lot of people; I am one among them. In the middle or the late eighties, Mr. Bharathan ran a very informative series of articles, in the form of a quiz, about VHFM, in the FILMFARE Magazine, whose editor at that time was one Mr. Pritish Nandy. Subsequently, Mr. Bharathan use to write a piece about Rafi, in an afternoon tabloid, MID - DAY.

As you very rightly said, he is loose cannon; love him, hate him but cannot ignore him. His writings are great entertainment, of course.

Best Regards,
Suresh