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 ending my contributions along with the following statistics of Nizami Ji with co - composers and singers - STRICTLY in the pre - partition period. I had compiled this some months back. Of course, I will certainly upload any more songs and details if I get them in the future. Also renewing requests for missing songs.

Statistics with co - composers
Composer (Total 1) - Number Of Songs - Number Of Films
Master Chaila Lal - 8 - 1

Statistics with singers
Singer (Total 24) - Number Of Songs - Number Of Films
Surendra - 6 - 1
Parul Ghosh - 2 - 1
(Baby) Madhuri - 2 - 1
Kusum Mantri - 3 - 2
Amirbai Karnataki - 18 - 4
Rajkumari Dubey/Banaraswali - 3 - 2
G M Durrani - 4 - 2
Hafiz Ali Khan Mastana - 1 - 1
Hamida Bano - 11 - 5
Mukesh - 1 - 1
Nirmala Devi - 5 - 1
Krishna Kumari Ganguly - 4 - 2
Zohrabai Ambalewali - 3 - 1
Mirza Musharraf - 1 - 1
Mohammed Rafi - 9 - 3
Feroze Dastur - 2 - 1
Zeenat Begum - 7 - 2
Mohantara Talpade/Ajinkya - 2 - 1
Naseem Akhtar - 4 - 2
Noor Jehan (Pre - Partition Period) - 5 - 1
Roshan Ara Begum (Pre - Partition Period) - 1 - 1
Shamshad Begum - 1 - 1
Binapani Mukherjee - 1 - 1
Feroze Nizami (Himself) - 3 - 2
Others (Unknown Singers) - 13 - 5

Hope you liked the interesting topic and details!

Vidur

This post has been edited by Vidur Sury: Aug 6 2011, 06:44 PM

[Aditya Pant]

Vidur, thanks a lot for these wonderful uploads. I was missing some songs.

Aditya