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]

Now comes another great and blockbuster Feroze Ji classic - Nek Parveen (1946). Aaho Chashm Ragini Ji (the evergreen beauty) and Ulhas Ji, both of whom were famous lead actors (or more was Ragini Ji?) in the 1940s and the immortal music made the film a super - duper - hit. The hard work of Feroze Nizami Ji (himself a great vocalist, singing a duet here), Zeenat Begum Ji, Hamida Bano Ji, Naseem Akhtar Ji and Amirbai Ji was well appreciated. Of course, the classic performance of Ragini Ji also was much praised. The film itself is available now, and of course, so the songs.

Zeenat Begum Ji is very incredible over here, and Feroze Ji recognises the immortal voice match she provides for Ragini Ji, and shows the former's great range and, her ability to, without a tinge of shrillness, render very high notes from the bottom of her heart. So was the great singing then. The film had some of the most popular songs of Zeenat Ji and Hamida Ji. Hamida Ji was not much considered for high pitches in the beginning, but her fan Feroze Ji showed her great ability with the superhit Teri Zaat Pak Hai and, Hamida Ji sang a large number of high pitch songs thereafter. Naseem Akhtar Ji and Amirbai Ji did an excellent job with their bold and beautiful voices as well.

Here are film details and song list as well as songs.

Please note that with accordance to Geet Kosh, I've lised Aao Saheliyon and Aaj Dulhan Bani as two songs, but making the large wedding song (whose parts the above listed 2 songs are) into equal parts, I have these 2 songs as one and the continuation of Aaj Dulhan, Tera Bano....Aaya Kaun as another part.

All 128 kbps - song 1 uploaded in the next post due to lack of space:

8. Nek Parveen (1946)
Banner: D R D Productions, Bombay
Leading Pair: Ragini, Ulhas
Cast: Yaqub, Yashodhara Katju, Mirza Musharraf, Wazir Mohammed Khan, Masood, Saeed Ahmed, Bibi, Nazir Kashmiri, Kumar

1. Teri Zaat Pak Hai Ae Khuda, Teri Shaan Jalla Jalal Hoo - Hamida Bano, Chorus - 3.49 min (UPLOADED IN NEXT POST)

2. Haye Zalim Tune Pee Hi Nahin - Naseem Akhtar, Feroze Nizami - 3.11 min

3. Aao Saheliyon Banni Ko Mehndi Lagao (Part - 1) - Naseem Akhtar, Hamida Bano, Amirbai Karnataki, Zeenat Begum - 3.20 min (with beginning of Aaj Dulhan Bani)

4. Aaj Dulhan Bani Hai Saheli Hamari (Part - 2) - Naseem Akhtar, Hamida Bano, Amirbai Karnataki, Zeenat Begum - 2.09 min (from middle, Tera Bano - beginning in Aao Saheliyon)

5. Sun Le Tu Meri Iltaza, Sun Le Khuda Meri Duwa - Zeenat Begum - 3.03 min

6. Allah Duhai Hai Allah Duhai Hai, Ye Duniya Garibon Ko Kyon Jeene Nahin Deti - Zeenat Begum, Hamida Bano - 3.59 min

7. Ae Do Jahanwale Ae Do Jahanwale, Duniya Mein Bhi Nazar Kar Ae Asmaanwale - Zeenat Begum - 3.04 min


Enjoy the immortal gems!

Vidur

[Vidur Sury]

128 kbps:

1. Teri Zaat Pak Hai Ae Khuda, Teri Shaan Jalla Jalal Hoo - Hamida Bano, Chorus - 3.49 min (UPLOADED IN NEXT POST)

Enjoy the above quoted Hamida Ji classic - probably her most famous song. Uploading her due to lack of space in previous post.


Enjoy again!

Vidur