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]

Here are 3/8 songs from Feroze Ji's 4th classic, Us Paar, again in 1944. He uses four favourite playback singers again, Amirbai Ji, G. M. Durrani Ji, Naseem Akhtar Ji and Kusum Mantri Ji.

This was the first film of veteran, great playback singer Mukesh Ji. He sang a duet with Kusum Mantri Ji, giving playback for hero Ishwarlal Ji. Mukesh Ji had sung and acted before in Nirdosh (1941 - as hero alongside Nalini Jaywant Ji) and Dukh Sukh (1942 - among side cast). Thus Feroze Nizami Ji, leave alone his craze for the great Rafi Ji, his pet, introduced the great Mukesh Ji as a playback singer as well.

Below are details of the film as well as a song list, with three songs beautifully rendered by Amirbai Ji (who sang most for Swarnalata Ji in the latter's 1940s Indian career), G. M. Durrani Ji, Naseem Akhtar Ji, Kusum Mantri Ji and Mukesh Ji (luckily I have that duet also thanks a ton to our dear Debopriyo Ji and Balaji Ji for two of the songs). Please upload remaining songs.

All 128 kbps:

4. Us Paar (1944)
Banner: Sun Art Pictures, Bombay
Leading Pair: Ishwarlal, Swarnalata
Cast: Chandramohan, Sulochana Chaterjee, Kanhaiyalal, Charlie, Chota Kabir

1. Char Char Shadiyan Na Karna Yaar - ?

2. Main Aapki Hoon Beena, Tum Geet Ho Kanhaiya - Amirbai Karnataki

3. Balamwa Ban Gaye Gentleman Gentleman Man Man Man Man - ?

4. Zara Bolo Ri Haan, Kya Logi Is Dil Ka Kiraya - Kusum Mantri, Mukesh (courtesy Debopriyo Ji) - 3.18 min

5. Aaj Nashe Main Hai Phulwari Aaj - Amirbai Karnataki, G M Durrani

6. Khevaiya Aao Chalen Us Paar Jahan Hawa Matwali - Amirbai Karnataki, G M Durrani, Naseem Akhtar - 3.24 min

7. Ye Qismat Ki Kya Kya Sitamgariyan Hain - Amirbai Karnataki (courtesy Balaji Ji) - 3.25 min

8. Panchi Panchi Panchi Bhoola Kal Ka Gaana, Dekh Raha Bheegi Aankhon Se Phoolon Ka Murjhana - G M Durrani


Enjoy and please upload remaining songs!

Vidur