Shammi Kapoor, His Movies & His Songs Options

[swarapriya]

Swarapriya, thanks for posting one of the greatest albums of late forties. Pandit Amarnath ji gave memorable music for this film. If I remember correctly, Pandit Husnalal ji and Bhagataram were his younger brothers who helped him in this film. Songs of Mallika-E-Tarannum Noor Jehan ji and G M Durrani sahab are evergreen and are treat to ears even 60 years later. They will continue to enthrall the music lovers for generations to come. These are immortal melodies and let us all thank these great artists who created this magic.

Best Regards
Parag

Thanks Parag. Everytime I read your comments I learn something new. This time it is the relationship between the music directors for this movie. This is the first time I have learnt that the three of them were brothers.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[Exon]

Mirza Sahiban (1947)

Here are the songs from the great Noor Jehan starrer Mirza Sahiban. This movie stars another Kapoor, Trilok. There are 10 delightful songs in this album with Noor Jehan singing six of them (solos and duets). I am uploading this album so that our members can appreciate defferences between this album and the 1957 Shammi starrer.

Now for the details of the songs of "Mirza Sahiban (1947)" and the songs themselves ...

Swarapriya,

I always watch for your great selections. Thanks again for yet another great old album.
I have some doubt about the male singer in 'Aaj miyaan ji' song. In this song, the male voice sounds different from other two GMD songs from this album. Let's wait for senior members to confirm the male singer.

Exon

This post has been edited by Exon: Sep 9 2008, 03:25 AM

[parag_sankla]

Swarapriya, thanks for posting one of the greatest albums of late forties. Pandit Amarnath ji gave memorable music for this film. If I remember correctly, Pandit Husnalal ji and Bhagataram were his younger brothers who helped him in this film. Songs of Mallika-E-Tarannum Noor Jehan ji and G M Durrani sahab are evergreen and are treat to ears even 60 years later. They will continue to enthrall the music lovers for generations to come. These are immortal melodies and let us all thank these great artists who created this magic.

Best Regards
Parag

Thanks Parag. Everytime I read your comments I learn something new. This time it is the relationship between the music directors for this movie. This is the first time I have learnt that the three of them were brothers.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish ji has given an account of his meeting with Lata ji here.

http://www.raganet.com/RagaNet/Issues/3/lata.html

In this he mentions "I remember Pandit Hussan Laal, the youngest brother of Pandit Amarnaath, bringing his car and driving all of us to an old temple in a suburb located between Tardeo and Grant Road. "

There is a nice pic of Durrani sahab, C Ramachandra ji, Lata ji and Pandit S D Batish ji on the same page.

Cheers
Parag

[swarapriya]

Swarapriya,

I always watch for your great selections. Thanks again for yet another great old album.
I have some doubt about the male singer in 'Aaj miyaan ji' song. In this song, the male voice sounds different from other two GMD songs from this album. Let's wait for senior members to confirm the male singer.

Exon

Exon,

Thanks for the appreciative comments. I know you've one of the critical eyes and can catch a problem quickly. As a matter of fact, I did have doubts when I was uploading this song. I agree with you. It doesn't sound like GMD. It must be someone else. May be someone can throw some light on this.

Thanks and cheers,
Swarapriya

[swarapriya]

Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish ji has given an account of his meeting with Lata ji here.

http://www.raganet.com/RagaNet/Issues/3/lata.html

In this he mentions "I remember Pandit Hussan Laal, the youngest brother of Pandit Amarnaath, bringing his car and driving all of us to an old temple in a suburb located between Tardeo and Grant Road. "

There is a nice pic of Durrani sahab, C Ramachandra ji, Lata ji and Pandit S D Batish ji on the same page.

Cheers
Parag

This is a great picture. Parag, you have uncanny knack of unconvering treasures like this. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers. -S

[parag_sankla]

Mirza Sahiban (1947)

Here are the songs from the great Noor Jehan starrer Mirza Sahiban. This movie stars another Kapoor, Trilok. There are 10 delightful songs in this album with Noor Jehan singing six of them (solos and duets). I am uploading this album so that our members can appreciate defferences between this album and the 1957 Shammi starrer.

Now for the details of the songs of "Mirza Sahiban (1947)" and the songs themselves ...

Swarapriya,

I always watch for your great selections. Thanks again for yet another great old album.
I have some doubt about the male singer in 'Aaj miyaan ji' song. In this song, the male voice sounds different from other two GMD songs from this album. Let's wait for senior members to confirm the male singer.

Exon

Exon, yes you are (again) right.



The male voice in this song is not of G M Durrani sahab. Not sure whose though ! Waiting for senior members to come up with this information

Regards
Parag

[Exon]

Mirza Sahiban (1947)

Here are the songs from the great Noor Jehan starrer Mirza Sahiban. This movie stars another Kapoor, Trilok. There are 10 delightful songs in this album with Noor Jehan singing six of them (solos and duets). I am uploading this album so that our members can appreciate defferences between this album and the 1957 Shammi starrer.

Now for the details of the songs of "Mirza Sahiban (1947)" and the songs themselves ...

Swarapriya,

I always watch for your great selections. Thanks again for yet another great old album.
I have some doubt about the male singer in 'Aaj miyaan ji' song. In this song, the male voice sounds different from other two GMD songs from this album. Let's wait for senior members to confirm the male singer.

Exon

Exon, yes you are (again) right.



The male voice in this song is not of G M Durrani sahab. Not sure whose though ! Waiting for senior members to come up with this information

Regards
Parag

Parag, Swarapriya,

Could it be Pandit Husnlal? I notice the male voice has some resemblance to his (Husnlal's) duet with Lata in Payar Ki Manzil (1950) & another duet from Sanam (1951). Pyar Ki Manzil song was recently uploaded in the forum; though the audio is of average quality.

Exon

This post has been edited by Exon: Sep 9 2008, 09:56 PM

[lakshmi]

Is mehfil mein aana bachke
Geeta Dutt
Coffe House (1957)
Roshan
Prem Dhawan
112 KBPS
03.33 min
mp3

Audio courtesy HF members

Thanks Swarapriya and Parag for Coffee house songs

Lakshmi

[parag_sankla]

Lakshmi ji, its Swarapriya who is bringing us one after another treasures ! I am just a small contributor, like the squirrel helping to build the bridge to Lanka.



Cheers
Parag

[parag_sankla]

Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish ji has given an account of his meeting with Lata ji here.

http://www.raganet.com/RagaNet/Issues/3/lata.html

In this he mentions "I remember Pandit Hussan Laal, the youngest brother of Pandit Amarnaath, bringing his car and driving all of us to an old temple in a suburb located between Tardeo and Grant Road. "

There is a nice pic of Durrani sahab, C Ramachandra ji, Lata ji and Pandit S D Batish ji on the same page.

Cheers
Parag

This is a great picture. Parag, you have uncanny knack of unconvering treasures like this. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers. -S

Swarapriya, its my utmost pleasure to share whatever little information I find relevant to the golden era of HFM.

Warmest Regards
Parag

[parag_sankla]

Parag, Swarapriya,

Could it be Pandit Husnlal? I notice the male voice has some resemblance to his (Husnlal's) duet with Lata in Payar Ki Manzil (1950) & another duet from Sanam (1951). Pyar Ki Manzil song was recently uploaded in the forum; though the audio is of average quality.

Exon

Yes Exon, that is possible. There are just one or two lines sung by the male singer. I have not listened to the other songs you mentioned, but it is very much possible that Husnalal ji would have sung this song with Shamshad ji.

Cheers
Parag

[swarapriya]

Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957)

Finally here is the movie where real Shammi arrived. It was a long way coming but came he did and with such a thud that it made waves all over the Hindi film world. After this movie, for Shammi, for his fans, and his movies were never going to be the same again.

Under the guidance of his wife Geeta Bali, Shammi went through a complete metamorphis for this movie to give one last gasp try to save his professional carrier. With so many critics panning him to be another Raj Kapoor look-alike, he shaved his upper lip. He studied carefully why Elvis Presley and James Dean were so popular with youth all over the world. He groomed his hair Jimmy Dean style. He took a guitar and added twists and turns to his acting a la Elvis even though he could not play it.

When "Tumsa Nahin Dekha" was released, people immediately embraced this new incarnation of Shammi. He was an overnight boxoffice sensation. Things in Bomaby film world were never going to be the same anymore.

This movie had a first-time director, Nasir Hussain. He was a popular writer for Filmistan Studios. One of his most popular story was Dev Anand-starrer "Munimji". Hussain also wrote the story and the screenplay for the movie. Its heroine, Ameeta was a protege of the head of the Filmistan Studio. He was relaunching her with this movie. All the camera work, lighting, exposure, and publicity were carefully centered around her. But when the movie was released, people flocked theatres to watch mostly Shammi and listen to OP's magical music.

The movie's huge success was eminently aided by one of the best scores OP provided in his career until that time. Every song was a huge hit. Every song left a deep impression on its listeners. To aid him were superb singing by Rafi Saab and Ashaji. Majrooh Saab wrote all of the lyrics except the title song. The title song was written by Sahir Saab. Originally Sahir Saab was signed to write the lyrics for the movie. He was coming off from a crowning achievement of penning lyrics for Guru Dutt's human saga "Pyaasa". He was in mood to write similar lyrics and was not ready for the type of lyrics this movie demanded. So Nasir Hussain quietly replaced Sahir Saab with Majrooh Saab. Majrorh Saab did not disappoint. He was magnificent.

The title song sung by Ashaji that I am including here was not in the movie. I am also including an extended version of the song "Sar Par Topi". This is a DVD rip. Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

[jigri1]

Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957)

Finally here is the movie where real Shammi arrived. It was a long way coming but came he did and with such a thud that it made waves all over the Hindi film world. After this movie, for Shammi, for his fans, and his movies were never going to be the same again.

Under the guidance of his wife Geeta Bali, Shammi went through a complete metamorphis for this movie to give one last gasp try to save his professional carrier. With so many critics panning him to be another Raj Kapoor look-alike, he shaved his upper lip. He studied carefully why Elvis Presley and James Dean were so popular with youth all over the world. He groomed his hair Jimmy Dean style. He took a guitar and added twists and turns to his acting a la Elvis even though he could not play it.

When "Tumsa Nahin Dekha" was released, people immediately embraced this new incarnation of Shammi. He was an overnight boxoffice sensation. Things in Bomaby film world were never going to be the same anymore.

This movie had a first-time director, Nasir Hussain. He was a popular writer for Filmistan Studios. One of his most popular story was Dev Anand-starrer "Munimji". Hussain also wrote the story and the screenplay for the movie. Its heroine, Ameeta was a protege of the head of the Filmistan Studio. He was relaunching her with this movie. All the camera work, lighting, exposure, and publicity were carefully centered around her. But when the movie was released, people flocked theatres to watch mostly Shammi and listen to OP's magical music.

The movie's huge success was eminently aided by one of the best scores OP provided in his career until that time. Every song was a huge hit. Every song left a deep impression on its listeners. To aid him were superb singing by Rafi Saab and Ashaji. Majrooh Saab wrote all of the lyrics except the title song. The title song was written by Sahir Saab. Originally Sahir Saab was signed to write the lyrics for the movie. He was coming off from a crowning achievement of penning lyrics for Guru Dutt's human saga "Pyaasa". He was in mood to write similar lyrics and was not ready for the type of lyrics this movie demanded. So Nasir Hussain quietly replaced Sahir Saab with Majrooh Saab. Majrorh Saab did not disappoint. He was magnificent.

The title song sung by Ashaji that I am including here was not in the movie. I am also including an extended version of the song "Sar Par Topi". This is a DVD rip. Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

Thank you so much swarapriya ji !!!! I have such fond memories of this soundtrack. My uncle used to have a vinyl of this album and I have no idea as to how many times I have listened to these songs. They are so fresh even after so many years. I guess thats the beauty of music....

[swarapriya]

Thank you so much swarapriya ji !!!! I have such fond memories of this soundtrack. My uncle used to have a vinyl of this album and I have no idea as to how many times I have listened to these songs. They are so fresh even after so many years. I guess thats the beauty of music....

I share your thoughts Jigri. Lovely music is forever. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Mujrim (1958)

The songs from this movie are posted in O.P. Nayyar section and can be found at the following path:

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...pid=532404&