Sahir & Shairi, Films of Sahir Ludhianvi Options

[swarapriya]

Thanks Swarapriya for welcoming me aboard.

Thanks once again for the Alif Laila upload.

You're welcome indeed, Astob. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Armaan (1953)

Here is a beautiful album by the great Burmanda. On the top of it, some enriching lyrics from Sahir Saab. Interestingly there is no song by Lata in this album. However, there is some lovely singing by Geetaji, Asha, Manna & Talat Saab. Just savor ...

[swarapriya]

Humsafar (1953)

This is an unusual album in the sense that its music director was the fabulous Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. The great Ustad, renowned throughout the world for his knowledge and expertise of classical music is less known for the music he composed for films. Here is briefly about the legendary Ustad ...

Great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (see the picture attached) was a virtuoso of Sarod instrument (I am enclosing below a music piece of the playing of this instrument from one of his albums). He came from a great musical heritage and was popular throughout the world for his unparalleled skills as a musician. He travelled all over the world and on many occasions accompanied Ravi Shankar on several of his concerts. His jugalbandis with Shankar were a highlight of these concerts (I am enclosing a track of jugalbandi between these two famous artistes below).

For most of his life in later years he lived in the United States of America where he founded a school training students all over the world. He opened many branches of this school throughout many important world centers. In 1989, he was awarded Padma Vibhushan. He was nominated five times for the Grammy awards. He received several awards in the US for his many significant contributions to the classical music during his illustrious life.

Khan Saab scored music for handful of movies in Bengali, Hindi, and English. This is the second film for which he scored music for the Nav Ketan banner. In 1952, he also scored music for Chetan Anand’s “Aandhiyan”. His other notable credits for films include Satyajit Ray’s “Devi (1960)’ in which Sharmila Tagore made her acting debut in the title role and Ismael Merchant’s “The Householder (1963)” with Shashi Kapoor in the lead role.

Before we open up the songs of "Humsafar" here are the two classical music renditions of the Ustad ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 27 2010, 04:36 AM

[swarapriya]

Songs of "Humsafar (1953)"

This beautiful album composed by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Saab is greatly benefited by some beautiful lyrics of Sahir Saab and great singing of Geetaji and Kishoreda. By favorite of the album is Geetaji's lovely solo, "Haseen Chaandni". In her melodious voice, when you listen to this song you feel as if you are drenched in a lovely breeze that is bathed in moonlight.

All songs from this album are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. It appears like I may be still missing a song from this album, shown in red italics in the table below. If indeed this is the case, please share this song if you can. Thank you.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

[taiyab53]

Songs of "Humsafar (1953)"

This beautiful album composed by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Saab is greatly benefited by some beautiful lyrics of Sahir Saab and great singing of Geetaji and Kishoreda. By favorite of the album is Geetaji's lovely solo, "Haseen Chaandni". In her melodious voice, when you listen to this song you feel as if you are drenched in a lovely breeze that is bathed in moonlight.

All songs from this album are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. It appears like I may be still missing a song from this album, shown in red italics in the table below. If indeed this is the case, please share this song if you can. Thank you.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

here is the song

sorry the quality not so good

taiyab

[swarapriya]

Songs of "Humsafar (1953)"

here is the song

sorry the quality not so good

taiyab

Thank you very much Taiyab for the mising song. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Babla (1953)

Here is another beauty from the knockout combination of Burmanda and Sahir Saab. Hridyanath Mangeshkar sings a song in this movie. This is interesting because in our films, it has been a general practice for female singers to sing for little boys. In this case, Hridyanathji, must have been a little boy himself, sings the song. Apart from this, did he sing in any other movies?

All songs I am uploading are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. One of the songs, the song by Mannada, is of inferior quality. I am also missing a song shown in red italics in the table below. If you can, please kindly share with rest of us. Thanks.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

[taiyab53]

Babla (1953)

Here is another beauty from the knockout combination of Burmanda and Sahir Saab. Hridyanath Mangeshkar sings a song in this movie. This is interesting because in our films, it has been a general practice for female singers to sing for little boys. In this case, Hridyanathji, must have been a little boy himself, sings the song. Apart from this, did he sing in any other movies?

All songs I am uploading are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. One of the songs, the song by Mannada, is of inferior quality. I am also missing a song shown in red italics in the table below. If you can, please kindly share with rest of us. Thanks.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

here is the missing song

taiyab53

raat khushi ki aayi duniya nayi hai-53-babla-sd burman-lata-sahir ludhyanvi-3.13 mins-160 br

[Aditya Pant]

Babla (1953)

Here is another beauty from the knockout combination of Burmanda and Sahir Saab. Hridyanath Mangeshkar sings a song in this movie. This is interesting because in our films, it has been a general practice for female singers to sing for little boys. In this case, Hridyanathji, must have been a little boy himself, sings the song. Apart from this, did he sing in any other movies?

All songs I am uploading are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. One of the songs, the song by Mannada, is of inferior quality. I am also missing a song shown in red italics in the table below. If you can, please kindly share with rest of us. Thanks.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

I am aware of 4 more songs sung by Hridaynath as a young boy, with quite a feminine voice. That was in the 1951-54 period.... the films were Bazooband (1954), Guzara (1952), Sanskar (1952) and Deewana (1952).

As an adult, however, he sang in many Marathi movies and much later also in Hindi films like Maya Memsaab and Lekin.

Aditya

This post has been edited by Aditya Pant: May 29 2010, 11:08 AM

[HarshBhatt]

Thanks for Humsafar and Babla songs Swarapriya

[swarapriya]

here is the missing song

taiyab53

raat khushi ki aayi duniya nayi hai-53-babla-sd burman-lata-sahir ludhyanvi-3.13 mins-160 br

Thank you very much for the song, Taiyab. You come through again. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Babla (1953)

I am aware of 4 more songs sung by Hridaynath as a young boy, with quite a feminine voice. That was in the 1951-54 period.... the films were Bazooband (1954), Guzara (1952), Sanskar (1952) and Deewana (1952).

As an adult, however, he sang in many Marathi movies and much later also in Hindi films like Maya Memsaab and Lekin.

Aditya

Thank you very much Aditya for filling in the details. Now you mention I remember the songs from "Lekin" and "Maya Memsaab". But others I don't have any idea.

Cheers,
S

[swarapriya]

Thanks for Humsafar and Babla songs Swarapriya

You're very welcome, Harshji. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Jeevan Jyoti (1953)

Here is another beautiful album from the combination of Sahir and SD. Apart from its beautiful music, this movie has a couple of interesting things worth noting. Shammi Kapoor made his acting debut this year. He made several movies the very same year and many people believe that this was his first film released as a hero. In an interview Shammi discloses that this was the first movie he signed to be a hero. Besides acting in the movie, Shammi also sings a song with Asha. Thus Burmanda had both Raj (in "Dil Ki RanI in 1947) and Shammi sing for his movies.

Chand Usmani, Meena Kumari's sister, made her acting debut in this movie. Even though she was never able reach the heights of her illustrious sister, that would be a tall order for anyone, she did hold on her own and persevered long enough in the film field to be remembered for a role here or a role there. She acted in 60 plus movies.

Burmanda's assistant for this film was N. Dutta. Dutta became a full fledged music director later on and distinguished himself as a fine one with several movies to his credit. He is also noted for working mostly with Sahir Saab.

I will upload the songs from this album in two back-to-back posts. Now for the details of the songs in this first post and the songs themselves ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jun 2 2010, 01:59 PM

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Jeevan Jyoti (1953)" ...

There are several beautiful songs in this post. Geetaji has a couple of solos and a beautiful duet with Rafi Saab that are worth mentioning. I particularly like her solo, "Mann Sheetal". Shamshadji also has a lovely solo in "Saari Kushiyan". These and rest of the songs from this beautiful album are uploaded in this second post.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jun 2 2010, 02:00 PM