Great Composer Feroze Nizami Ji, Pre - partition films Options

[Vidur Sury]

Feroze Nizami Ji made excellent and very melodious music, and this naturally made him famous. It was sheer hard work from him and the singers he employed. His compositions had a great range from Hindustani Classical Music to Western Music as well as Thumris and Ghazals. He had a very large singer variety as well and made very good use of many of those great vocal talents. He himself was a great exponent of classical music. Hope to create a thread for his Pakistani films soon as well.

Starting a thread to appreciate this great genius and enjoy his immortal compositions. This is dedicated to his 10 pre - partition films, 1943 - 1947. He used almost 30 singers!

Here is his short but extremely memorable filmography:

1. Vishwas (1943) with Master Chaila Lal Ji
2. Badi Baat (1944)
3. Umang (1944)
4. Us Paar (1944)
5. Piya Milan (1945)
6. Sharbati Aankhein (1945)
7. Amar Raj (1946)
8. Nek Parveen (1946)
9. Jugnu (1947)
10. Rangeen Kahani (1947)

Regarding his favourite singers of pre - partition period, though he used a large number of singers, the great Amirbai Ji was his favourite vocalist (obviously, so, even among females). His second female favourite was another great top 1940s singer, Hamida Bano Ji. His favourite male singer was the veteran great, Mohammed Rafi Ji, who received a lot of encouragement and further training from him. G. M. Durrani Ji, a melodious top male singer of 1940s came next.

He used many more top playback singers like Zohrabai Ji, Rajkumari Banaraswali Ji, Shamshad Begum Ji, Zeenat Begum Ji, Naseem Akhtar Ji, Parul Ghosh Ji, Mohantara Ji, Binapani Ji and Hafiz Ali Khan Mastana Ji. Noor Jehan Ji, Feroze Dastoor Ji, Nirmala Devi Ji are some famous singing stars who sang for him. He also encouraged some great 1940s' singers who unfortunately never became top, like Kusum Mantri Ji and Krishna Kumari Ganguly Ji. Great classical vocalist, Malika-E-Mauseeqi Roshan Ara Begum Ji has sung some of her best film songs for him.

I will be posting the interesting song lists very soon, uploading songs I have. Our dear friends having the balance are requested to upload them.

Vidur

This post has been edited by Vidur Sury: Aug 3 2011, 05:25 PM

[Vidur Sury]

Starting with Feroze Ji's first film, Vishwas (1943). The songs became very famous and our Feroze Ji became quite popular, even if not a top name. He gained a lot of recognition among directors and producers in the coming years.

The film musically starred the great top singing star Surendra Ji and top playback singer Parul Ghosh Ji (singing for popular 1940s' heroine Mehtab Ji), so people noticed them immediately and this helped a lot in the film's gaining fame. Baby Madhuri Ji, famous actress Meena Kumari Ji's sister played an important role as a child star and also sang 2 songs herself. Feroze Ji uses ranges of all of the three singers very well.

Note that the 2 Parul Ghosh Ji songs (duets with Surendra Ji) are often credited to Mehtab Ji, but it was only sung for her. Playback was by Parul Ji, and Mehtab Ji never really sang in the 1940s (she did sing sometime in 1930s playing important roles to make ends meet and also hummed a bit for her Ek Din Ka Badshah - 1945). Probably because then playback singers were many times not mentioned, and in turn, the actors were.

Uploading the 7/8 songs I have, request for the missing song. 6 uploaded now with available space and 7th in next post.

Exquisite classically based (and some fun) compositions, perfectly and very sweetly rendered.

All 128 kbps:

1. Vishwas (1943) - with Master Chaila Lal
Banner: Wadia Movietone, Bombay
Leading Pair: Surendra, Mehtab
Cast: Sulochana Chaterjee, Gulab, Trilok Kapoor, Nayampalli, Meena, Batt, Afzal, Rashid, Narsi, Taakle, Baby Madhuri

1. Sawan Ki Rut Bhaye Sajanwa - Surendra, Parul Ghosh - 3.05 min (UPLOADED IN NEXT POST)

2. Hai Suhani Ajeeb Aaj Ki Raat - Surendra (MISSING)

3. Duniya Nayi Basayi Sajni - Surendra, Parul Ghosh - 3.27 min

4. Musafir Hansi Khushi Ho Paar - Surendra - 2.55 min

5. Aurat Ek Kahani Maiyya - Baby Madhuri - 3.27 min

6. Bhool Ja Jo Dekhta Hai - Surendra - 3.07 min

7. Bhojan Ke Nazare Hain, La La - Baby Madhuri (Parody song!) - 5.07 min

Songs parodied: 1. Khazanchi (1941) - Sawan Ke Nazare Hain (Shamshad Begum Ji, Ghulam Haider Ji)
2. Khazanchi (1941) - Laut Gayi Papan Andhiyari (Shamshad Begum Ji)
3. Sikandar (1941) - Zindgi Hai Pyar Se (Khan Mastana Ji, Rafique Ghaznavi Ji, Sheela Ji, Meena Shorey Ji, Menaka Ji)
4. Khandan (1942) - Mere Liye Jahan Mein (Noor Jehan Ji)
5. Khandan (1942) - Tu Kaunsi Badli Mein (Noor Jehan Ji)

8. Ga, Ban Ke Panchi Ga, Koi Anokha Raag Suna De - Surendra - 3.13 min


Enjoy and please upload the missing song!

Vidur