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 3/9 songs from Feroze Ji's second film, Badi Baat (1944). He used several top singers like Amirbai Ji, Rajkumari Ji, Hamida Bano Ji, G. M. Durrani Ji, Khan Mastana Ji and the film was quite popular. In particular, Amirbai Ji's "Iqrar Ke Parde Mein" became very famous. He did a great job with all these singers as well as great but lesser known 1940s' talent, Kusum Mantri Ji.

Here is the song list with 3 songs uploaded, our dear friends are requested to upload the balance.

All 3 are 128 kbps (unfortunately there is a repeat of end last stanza in songs 2 and 9, after the songs finish):

2. Badi Baat (1944)
Banner: Mazhar Arts, Bombay
Leading Pair: Ulhas, Swarnalata
Cast: Yaqub, Mazhar Khan, Moti, Gulab, Khalil, Madhusudhan, Lalita, Mishra, Saguna, Ram Marathe, Baby Roshan, Chandra

1. Aage, Ham Aage, Badhte Jaayenge, Duniyawalon Sun Lo - Group Song

2. Phir Aayi Hai Diwali, Khushi Se Naach Rahe Hain Naina - Kusum Mantri, Chorus - 5.01 min

3. Soti Hoon Ab Sab Soti Hoon, Tum Chanda Mujhe Jaga Dena - Amirbai Karnataki

4. Jaoon Kaise Main Beech Bazar, Sipahiya Mohe Akhiyan Maare - Rajkumari Dubey/Banaraswali - courtesy Viraj Bhai

5. Kyon Dekh Rahi Ho Mujhe Shokh Nazar Se - Amirbai Karnataki, G M Durrani

6. Baghiya Kare Singar, Aaja Saajan Daaloon Gale Mein Haar - Amirbai Karnataki, Hafiz Ali Khan Mastana

7. Mera Baalam Bada Harjai Re, Main To Preet Laga Pachtayi - Rajkumari Dubey/Banaraswali - courtesy Viraj Bhai

8. Iqrar Ke Parde Mein Mujhko Na Saza Dete - Amirbai Karnataki - 3.13 min (most famous song of the film)

9. Mere Bhole Se Baalam Ka Bhola Hai Dil - Hamida Bano, Kusum Mantri - 5.34 min

Enjoy and please provide missing songs!

Vidur

This post has been edited by Vidur Sury: Aug 7 2011, 03:04 PM

[Viraj Padhye]

2. Badi Baat (1944)
Banner: Mazhar Arts, Bombay
Leading Pair: Ulhas, Swarnalata
Cast: Yaqub, Mazhar Khan, Moti, Gulab, Khalil, Madhusudhan, Lalita, Mishra, Saguna, Ram Marathe, Baby Roshan, Chandra

4. Jaoon Kaise Main Beech Bazar, Sipahiya Mohe Akhiyan Maare - Rajkumari Dubey/Banaraswali

7. Mera Baalam Bada Harjai Re, Main To Preet Laga Pachtayi - Rajkumari Dubey/Banaraswali

Vidur

128kbps.

Viraj