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]

(Nargis) Taqdeer (1943)

Nargis turned barely 14 when she acted in this movie as the heroine aganist her wishes. She wanted to be a doctor like her father but her mother was grooming her to be an actress. When one of Indian cinema's greatest directors, Mehboob Khan came with the offer to act in his movie "Taqdeer", she couldn't pass it up. This movie became a huge hit and Nargis' taqdeer changed ever for good. Thanks to this movie, Indian moviegoers gained one of the greatest actresses of our times.

Agha Jani Kashmiri was associated with Mehboob Khan from the beginning of later's directorial career. He wrote many of the stories for Mehboob's movies and also penned their dialogues. Mehboob Saab appointed him as a diction and speaking coach to Nargis. Kashmiri Saab worked hard with Nargis preparing her for this movie and in the end after the movie was released and became a huge success, everybody was gratified with the results of their hard work.

Now for the songs from this movie where the sensational singing voice of Shamshad Begum is at the center stage with that great actor Motilal giving assist in some songs.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 17 2009, 12:02 AM