Shair Aur Sargam, Songs From Movies of 7 Great Lyricists Options

[swarapriya]

(Majrooh) Mr. Lambu (1956)

Besides this album, O.P. Nayyar composed music for two other movies of Sheikh Mukhtar, “Do Ustad (1959)” and “Mangu (1954)”. With OP at the helm one can expect lots of Asha and during early to mid-50’s some of Geetaji. This album has their fair share of numbers. But besides them, there is Suraiya.

Not only Suraiya was the leading lady of the film but she had two beautiful solos and a duet with Rafi Saab. Both of her solos are simply superb. Suraiya, along with Noor Jehan, was a popular singing actress during late 40’s and early 50’s.

This was the only film OP worked with Suraiya. Especially the song “Soyee Hai Kahaan Jaa Kar” merits special mention. It shows that OP can bring out the best working with other talents besides Asha or Geeta. This song is an absolute beauty with a train of pangs of pathos running through it. It was a great composition to touching lyrics. It has unparalleled rendering in the mesmerizing voice of Suraiya. The experience of listening to the song leaves one with such an indelible impression that it keeps lingering even after a long time like the scent of a fresh flower…

Here is this and other songs from this fine album...

[swarapriya]

(Rajinder Krishan) Ladki (1953)

M.V. Raman, who earlier introduced Vyjayanti Mala for Hindi audience in “Bahar (1951)”, is back again for the same concern AVM. He also has Kishoreda who was also in “Bahar”. I saw this movie recently and was pretty disappointed. It is very dated and some of the characters are simply revolting. Even the makeup was done sloppily (Randhir for example). This movie was very very difficult to watch.

As in the case with “Bahar”, Vyjayanti Mala dominates the proceedings in this film also. Her other costar is Anjali Devi, a popular star from the Telugu film industry. Anjali Devi produced and starred in the 1958 folklore film “Suvarna Sundari” that has fabulous award winning music by her husband Adi Narayana Rao.

There are tons of songs in the film. Lataji sang all the songs for Vyjayanti Mala. Geetaji sang for Anjali Devi. Screen credits list Sudarshanam & Dhaniram (encrypted as SD in the “Music” column in the table below) as the music directors. But I found various references that credit C. Ramchandra (encrypted as CR) as another composer of some other songs. I am hoping someone from our Forum can verify this.

I am uploading songs from this film in two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set…

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Ladki (1953)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this film except for the one missing, shown in red italics in the table below. If you can, I am requesting members to share this song with rest of us. Thank you.

Here are the songs in this post...

[swarapriya]

(Shailendra) Seema (1955)

Amiya Chakrabarty was a brilliant director who made several memorable films. He was a political activist and was imprisoned by the British Government. He left Bengal for Mumbai and got start as a writer for the film “Bandhan (1940)”. He made his debut as a director the very next year in1941 with the film “Anjaan”. This starred Devika Rani and Ashok Kumar and was an average success. In 1944 he directed the film “Jwar Bhata” that introduced Dilip Kumar. Some of the movies in which he made his mark were “Daag (1952)”, “Patita (1953)”, Seema (1955)”, “Kath Putli (1957)”, and “Dekh Kabira Roya (1957)”. He died at the height of his fame in 1957, only few days after “Kabira” was released, at the young age of 44.

Chakrabarty not only wrote the story and screenplay for “Seema” but also produced and directed it. The story of the film bagged the Best Story Award for him from Filmfare.

The movie belonged to Nutan. She had a very strong role and gave a brilliant performance. She goes through various stages of innocence, disgust, outrage, frenzied lunacy and devotional love with stunning consummate artistry seldom seen on an Indian screen. For her brilliant performance she bagged the Filmfare Best Actress Award. This was the first of many awards that she will earn in her career in her future.

Shubha Khote, who comes from a stage and film lineage (Durga Khote, for example, is her aunt), was introduced in this film. A graduate in English literature she was a noted athlete during her college days. She was a champion bicyclist in the state. The director made use of this talent of hers by introducing a bicycle chase scene that lasts nearly three minutes in the film.

The movie was a critical as well as financial success. Shankar & Jaikishan’s music played a big part in this. Every song of the film became a huge hit. Mannada has one the most memorable songs of his career in this film, “Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai”. The song appears twice in the film, the second time only partially. But it does not have any new wordings, it simply is a repeat.

I am uploading this and other fine songs from this album plus several instrumentals in back-to-back three posts. The first two posts contain the songs from the film. The third post contains instrumentals.

Here is the first set of songs…

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Seema (1955)"...

Here are rest of the songs from this fine musical including a couple of specials...

[swarapriya]

Instrumentals of "Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai" from "Seema (1955)"...

The song "Tu Pyaar Ka Saaga Hai" from "Seema" became immensely popular. This led many instrumentalists to compose it on their respective favourite instrument. Here are some of these...

[hemdutt]

(Shailendra) Seema (1955)

Amiya Chakrabarty was a brilliant director who made several memorable films. He was a political activist and was imprisoned by the British Government. He left Bengal for Mumbai and got start as a writer for the film "Bandhan (1940)". He made his debut as a director the very next year in1941 with the film "Anjaan". This starred Devika Rani and Ashok Kumar and was an average success. In 1944 he directed the film "Jwar Bhata" that introduced Dilip Kumar. Some of the movies in which he made his mark were "Daag (1952)", "Patita (1953)", Seema (1955)", "Kath Putli (1957)", and "Dekh Kabira Roya (1957)". He died at the height of his fame in 1957, only few days after "Kabira" was released, at the young age of 44.

Chakrabarty not only wrote the story and screenplay for "Seema" but also produced and directed it. The story of the film bagged the Best Story Award for him from Filmfare.

The movie belonged to Nutan. She had a very strong role and gave a brilliant performance. She goes through various stages of innocence, disgust, outrage, frenzied lunacy and devotional love with stunning consummate artistry seldom seen on an Indian screen. For her brilliant performance she bagged the Filmfare Best Actress Award. This was the first of many awards that she will earn in her career in her future.

Shubha Khote, who comes from a stage and film lineage (Durga Khote, for example, is her aunt), was introduced in this film. A graduate in English literature she was a noted athlete during her college days. She was a champion bicyclist in the state. The director made use of this talent of hers by introducing a bicycle chase scene that lasts nearly three minutes in the film.

The movie was a critical as well as financial success. Shankar & Jaikishan's music played a big part in this. Every song of the film became a huge hit. Mannada has one the most memorable songs of his career in this film, "Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai". The song appears twice in the film, the second time only partially. But it does not have any new wordings, it simply is a repeat.

I am uploading this and other fine songs from this album plus several instrumentals in back-to-back three posts. The first two posts contain the songs from the film. The third post contains instrumentals.

Here is the first set of songs…

Dear Swarapriya ji

Excellent post & brilliant songs.

Thanks for these lovely songs.

[swarapriya]

(Shailendra) Seema (1955)

Dear Swarapriya ji

Excellent post & brilliant songs.

Thanks for these lovely songs.

You're very welcome My Dear Hemji. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

(Shakeel) Kundan (1955)

Victor Hugo’s French novel, published in 1862, has been the basis of many films in several languages throughout the world. The story revolves around the life and travails of a man who was found guilty of stealing a loaf of bread and was convicted for several years in jail. The story continues after his release from the jail through many years till his eventual experience of redemption. This story was the basis of Sohrab Modi’s “Kundan”.

Modi produced, directed, and acted in the title role. Unfortunately the story as it is unfolded in “Kundan” revolves around so many bad people and negativity that out of such hopelessness one starts losing faith in humanity. Between this tale of gloom and doom some comedy was inserted with Om Prakash leading it. However, even this does not serve much to the grimness of the subject.

Sunil Dutt had an important role as a freedom fighter. Earlier this very same year, Dutt was introduced in the movie “Railway Platform”. He had a limited role with Modi and Nimmi occupying most of the screen time.

Ghulam Mohammad provided some nice compositions such as Maana Dey’s “Na Kar Paap” and Lata’s “Jahaan Waale”, and others. Here are these and other songs from this film…

[talhari]

Instrumentals of "Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai" from "Seema (1955)"...

The song "Tu Pyaar Ka Saaga Hai" from "Seema" became immensely popular. This led many instrumentalists to compose it on their respective favourite instrument. Here are some of these...

Great sharing, here is small contribution from me.

Tu Pyar Ka Sagar Hay - Violin

Duration 4.29
bit rate 128 kbps
Film Seema

[swarapriya]

Instrumentals of "Tu Pyaar Ka Saagar Hai" from "Seema (1955)"...

The song "Tu Pyaar Ka Saaga Hai" from "Seema" became immensely popular. This led many instrumentalists to compose it on their respective favourite instrument. Here are some of these...

Great sharing, here is small contribution from me.

Tu Pyar Ka Sagar Hay - Violin

Duration 4.29
bit rate 128 kbps
Film Seema

Thank you kindly for the instrumental Talhari. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

(Anand Bakshi) Awara Badal (1964)

Here are the songs from this album...

[swarapriya]

(Hasrat) Pilpli Saheb (1954)

I have uploaded these songs earlier in this very thread. I will be happy to reload them if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
S

[taiyab53]

(Hasrat) Pilpli Saheb (1954)

I have uploaded these songs earlier in this very thread. I will be happy to reload them if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
S

DEAR SWARAPRIYA
please upload all songs from film TEESRI MAZIL & DO BADAN IF VINYL RIP
thanks
taiyab

This post has been edited by taiyab53: Oct 25 2013, 09:53 AM

[swarapriya]

DEAR SWARAPRIYA
please upload all songs from film TEESRI MAZIL & DO BADAN IF VINYL RIP
thanks
taiyab

My Dear Taiyab,

I have songs from both CDs and DVDs. Unfortunately not in vinyl. Sorry about that. May be someone else can come forward to help.

Cheers,
S