Three Of A Kind, Dev, Dilip & Kishore Options

[swarapriya]

(Dev) Rahi (1953)

This K.A.Abbas-directed movie has several fine numbers by Anilda. Only problem is that most of them have the annoying hissy noise associated with them. I tried to clean them but the original sources were so bad that if there was any improvement it is hardly noticeable, at least in some songs. I am also including a couple of extended versions of the songs here. Their quality is really terrible. Please download them at your own risk. I am including here only for completeness sake.

Here are the songs...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Dec 18 2010, 03:54 AM

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(Dilip) Paigham (1959)

Here is a beautiful album from C. Ramchandra. This time he is working with Kavi Pardeepji. Two of their earlier collaborations, "Nastik (1955)" and "Talaq (1958)", resulted in hit music with several melodiously beautiful numbers. This album also has several winners.

I am uploading all songs from an original soundtrack album in two back-to-back posts. Here are the songs in the first post...

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Concluding Songs from "Paigham (1959)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this beautiful album...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Dec 31 2010, 06:47 AM

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Could someone re-upload Boot Polish?

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Could someone re-upload Boot Polish?

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(Kishore) Begunah (1957)

This movie when it was released it was a runaway hit. It was a carbon copy of late great Danny Kaye's Hollywood film "A Knock On The Wood", a 1954 comedy hit. The movie was an ideal vehicle for Kishoreda to show off his talents. He came through in flying colors with many of his zany antics helping with the success of the film. The producers of the Hindi film were sued by Paramount Studios, distributors of the English film. Paramount won the case. “Begunah” immediately was withdrawn from the theatres. No DVD was ever released. Apparently several bootleg copies of the film exist.

The film also was helped by the music of Shankar & Jaikishan. Most of the songs became popular, especially the solo by Mukesh, “Aye Pyaase Dil Bezubaan”. Incidentally, this song was picturized in the film on Jaikishan.

Here are the songs…

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(Dev) Baadbaan (1954)

Shakti Samanta, who went on to make several fine movies like "Aradhana", ""Kati Patang", "Amar Prem", and others to his credit, co-wrote the screenplay and dialogue for this film. There are several fine songs in this album with the twin song "Kaise Koi" taking the top honors. I am also including here Lata's private version of the same song. It appears like I may be missing the song shown in red italics shown in the table below. If indeed this is the case, please kindly share. Thank you.

Here are the songs from this fine album...

[swarapriya]

(Dilip) Kohinoor (1960)

"Kohinoor" may not be a gem but is another one of those movies that exploited Dilipji's talents to a maximum. One of our most gifted actors, here he transforms from a comedian to a romantic hero to a tragedy king very effortlessly. For his portrayal he won the best actor Filmfare award.

There is one "mirror" sequence in this movie between Dilip Saab and Jeevan that is very hilarious. This was a direct lift from the famous Marx Brothers' movie called "Duck Soup" made in 1933. Groucho was in that mirror sequence. Many years later, in 1955, Harpo Marx (brother of Groucho) reenacted the same mirror scene on the Lucille Ball TV show bringing down the house with laughter. By the way, in Amitabh's "Mard (1985)" a similar sequence was shot between Amitabh and Prem Chopra.

"Kohinoor" was a commercially successful movie and the music played a major part in that success. Naushadji displayed his versatility as a music composer with a classical song like "Madhuban Mein" on one hand and a beautiful romantic duet like "Do Sitaaron" on another hand and several other beautiful songs in between.

I am uploading all songs in three back-to-back posts. Songs in the first two posts are from an original soundtrack album. The third post contains several extended versions. These are all from a DVD. I cleaned up the noise on all songs from the DVD version and I think they turned out pretty good. However, still some may find the quality is not in par with the original soundtrack songs.

Now for details of the songs and songs themselves in the first post...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jan 27 2011, 02:51 PM

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Continuing Songs from "Kohinoor (1960)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this fine album...

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Concluding Songs from "Kohinoor (1960)"...

Following are some of the extended version songs from this beautiful album...

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(Kishore) Miss Mary (1957)

This was one great comedy with lots and lots of songs, but all just beautiful to listen to. L.V. Prasad directed this movie for AVM Studios. It was originally made in Telugu as "Missamma (1955)" and the same year they also made it in Tamil as “Missiamma”. Both were huge hits. The story was taken from a Bengali novel by Yotish Banerjee called "Manmoyee Girls School".

Guru Dutt originally wanted to make this film in Hindi. Abrar Alvi, a friend of Guru, tells that he and Guru travelled to Hyderabad to see the Telugu version of the movie. But circumstances led them to meet instead Waheeda Rehman whom Guru Dutt invited to come to Bombay and work with him. Alvi Saab says that they did manage to see "Missamma" and Guru didn't like the movie that much for him to consider making it in Hindi. Both Telugu and Tamil versions were made by Vijaya Productions (the production company that later became famous with Hindi hits like "Ram Aur Shyam (1967)" and "Julie (1975)") and were director by L.V. Prasad.

Hemant Kumar who gave music to the film was so impressed with songs in the film versions in Telugu and Tamil that he decided to borrow one tune. "Brindaban Ki Krishna Kanhaiya" is identical the tune from the Telugu film.

I am uploading songs of "Miss Mary" from an original soundtrack album in two back-to-back posts. Here is a description of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves...

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Concluding Songs from "Miss Mary (1957)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this beautiful album...

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(Dev) Ferry (1954)

This is an early album of Hemantda with the team of Geeta Bali & Dev Anand that sizzled the screen in "Jaal (1952)" . Here Dev plays a much subdued role of a mid mannered and protective father of two children who lost their mother whereas Geeta Bali plays a woman running away from her past.

Hemantda utilizes the talents of some fine singers in this album whose names we don't hear everyday (Laxmi Shankar and Ratna Gupta). But the results are the same. Beautiful.

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan plays sarod (for Dev's character) and Pt. Nikhil Banerjee plays sitar (for Geeta Bali's character) assisting Hemantda. There are a couple of music clips I am including here that highlight this music. Rajinder Krishan who also collaborated with Hemantda very same year for the history making music of "Nagin" wrote the lyrics.

I am uploading these songs in two back-to-back posts. Quality of these songs is fair and a discerning listener can detect an occasional skip that may go unnoticed by others. I tried my best to clean the noise in these recordings and the results may not be staggeringly obvious but the end product is tolerably decent.

Here are the songs in the first post...

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Concluding Songs from "Ferry (1954)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this fine album. The musical clip included here where both sarod and sitar are used starts as a sitar solo, then slowly drifts into a sarod solo, and finally ends up as a jugalbandi between the players of these respective instruments. Just awesome.

Now for the songs and music...

[ShankarJaikishanFan]

Musafir is still available on this thread and I don't have the Dilip Kumar one. So here's Swarapriya's upload of Taxi Driver:

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