Ranu Mukherjee
Ankur Jain
Ranu Mukherjee sung a very nice song 'Nani teri morni ko' in Masoom
(1954). Can someone please tell me what her approximate age was at that
time? I'm also curious to know the youngest age for the main singer of a
song in a hindi film?
thanks,
Ankur.
Surjit Singh
Ankur Jain wrote:
Define main singer.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ankur.
>
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jyotiprakasguha
thanks,
Ankur.
Was Ranu Mukherjee born in 1954? Please confirm. To the best of my
knowledge and belief, her debut was in Bengali film Badshah (mid sixtees-
The film was re-made later by Satyen Bose as Mere Lal with Mala Sinha in
the lead).In Badshah she sang for Shankar Banerjee, a male child artiste.
Jyoti Prakash Guha.
anil11...@yahoo.com
Did she act in film Anuradha - 1960 as daughter of
Balraj Sahni and Leela Naidu ?
Anil
Ankur Jain
Well, a search on the Web comes up with
http://homepage.mac.com/itrans/ASCII/1311.isb, where Ranu Mukherjee is
credited with singing 'Nani teri morni ko' in the movie Masoom (1954). I
was myself surprised that this song is from the '50s. Can someone please
confirm that this is indeed the case, and if so, how old was Ranu
Mukherjee at that time?
thanks,
Ankur.
Afzal A. Khan
I thought "Masoom" was around 1960/1961.
Afzal
jyotiprakasguha
> http://homepage.mac.com/itrans/ASCII/1311.isb,
where Ranu Mukherjee is
> credited with singing 'Nani teri morni ko' in the movie Masoom (1954).
I
> was myself surprised that this song is from the '50s. Can someone
please
> confirm that this is indeed the case, and if so, how old was Ranu
> Mukherjee at that time?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ankur.
There has been three films with Masoom as title. the first one in 1941,
directed by Hasnain, starring Ashok Kumar. The second one in 1960 directed
by Satyen Bose. Here ranu sang the song. She must have been about 5-6
years then.
Ankur Jain
Thanks Jyoti-ji! I think that clarifies the issue. Most likely there was
an error on the webpage that I had cited.
regards,
Ankur.
Prithviraj Dasgupta
in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.44.040923...@elaine2.Stanford.EDU>...
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, jyotiprakasguha wrote:
>
> > Well, a search on the Web comes up with
> > > http://homepage.mac.com/itrans/ASCII/1311.isb,
> where Ranu Mukherjee is
> > > credited with singing 'Nani teri morni ko' in the movie Masoom (1954).
> I
> > > was myself surprised that this song is from the '50s. Can someone
> please
> > > confirm that this is indeed the case, and if so, how old was Ranu
> > > Mukherjee at that time?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Ankur.
> >
I was trying to find Ranu's birth year from the magazines I have
but I could not trace the one where I had read it. I think she was
born around 1954 as Mr Guha said because in Anuradha(1960) she
looks to be around 5 or 6. And in a photo with Hemant and Bela
around 1965 she looks to be in her pre-teens.
Her first song was indeed in the 1960 movie Masoom under Robin
Banerjee's MD. Her next song AFAIK was under Salil Chowdhury
in Kabuliwala the very next year. The Bengali movie
Badshah(1962) that Mr. Guha mentioned had her first Bengali
songs but not her first playbacked song. She sang two solos
and 1 duet with her father and they were significant hits.
Later in her career she sang a lot of songs in the movie
Do Dooni Char(1968) - both solos and duets with KK. But I guess
the movie and its songs didn't do too well except for KK's
'hawaaon pe likh do'. In the 70s she continued to sing
in Hindi movies, albeit sparingly. In Bengali she had
one popular song in 1969 - children song on a dog called
"Bushy ball", and, a Salil number in 1976 - 'akash kusum diye
ami'. But she never got established as a major adult singer
in either language. The last song of her I heard is
the title song of a 90s Hindi serial named 'Swambhimaan'.
-Prithviraj
Arunabha S Roy
> I was trying to find Ranu's birth year from the magazines I have
> but I could not trace the one where I had read it. I think she was
> born around 1954 as Mr Guha said because in Anuradha(1960) she
> looks to be around 5 or 6.
Thanks for confirming this (Ranu Mukherjee playing Balraj Sahni's
daughter in Anuradha). I had read this long back, and more recently
wasn't sure if I was remembering it correctly or not. In the movie
titles, I believe she is just credited as Ranu or Baby Ranu,so I
couldn't confirm. I remember hers to be an extremely natural and
winsome performance.
> Later in her career she sang a lot of songs in the movie
> Do Dooni Char(1968) - both solos and duets with KK. But I guess
> the movie and its songs didn't do too well except for KK's
> 'hawaaon pe likh do'. In the 70s she continued to sing
> in Hindi movies, albeit sparingly.
Ranu Mukherjee sang for one Hemant Kumar composed 70s film "kyo.n hai
diiwaane tuu akelaa" from Bees Saal Pehle or some similarly named film.
(I2FS has the details) Most recently she has sung for ARR in Daud, a
kind of campy song by the name "shabbaa shabbaa haay rabbaa"
In Bengali she had
> one popular song in 1969 - children song on a dog called
> "Bushy ball", and, a Salil number in 1976 - 'akash kusum diye
> ami'. But she never got established as a major adult singer
> in either language.
I am sorry that as a singer Ranu Mukherjee did not achieve/aspire for a
more prolific career. I am extremely fond of her voice. She has a
somewhat deep and husky voice, which I find has greatly enhanced the
quality of the few songs that we have of her as an adult. The Salil
Chowdhury song you mentioned is absolutely wonderful.
- Arunabha
Abhay Jain
"Prithviraj Dasgupta" <prith...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I was trying to find Ranu's birth year from the magazines I have
> but I could not trace the one where I had read it. I think she was
> born around 1954 as Mr Guha said because in Anuradha(1960) she
> looks to be around 5 or 6. And in a photo with Hemant and Bela
> around 1965 she looks to be in her pre-teens.
>
> Her first song was indeed in the 1960 movie Masoom under Robin
> Banerjee's MD. Her next song AFAIK was under Salil Chowdhury
> in Kabuliwala the very next year. The Bengali movie
> Badshah(1962) that Mr. Guha mentioned had her first Bengali
> songs but not her first playbacked song. She sang two solos
> and 1 duet with her father and they were significant hits.
>
> Later in her career she sang a lot of songs in the movie
> Do Dooni Char(1968) - both solos and duets with KK. But I guess
> the movie and its songs didn't do too well except for KK's
> 'hawaaon pe likh do'. In the 70s she continued to sing
> in Hindi movies, albeit sparingly. In Bengali she had
> one popular song in 1969 - children song on a dog called
> "Bushy ball", and, a Salil number in 1976 - 'akash kusum diye
> ami'. But she never got established as a major adult singer
> in either language. The last song of her I heard is
> the title song of a 90s Hindi serial named 'Swambhimaan'.
>
She accompanied Manna Dey in late 80s to US.
I heard her in State Theater. She was just so so.
AJ
> -Prithviraj
Ashok
>
>Her first song was indeed in the 1960 movie Masoom under Robin
>Banerjee's MD.
>-Prithviraj
All the other five songs of 'Maasoom' were composed by Robin Bannerjee,
but "naanii terii moranii" was by Hemant himself. Hence, couldn't use
the song in the RJGK on obscure music directors.
Ashok
Samik
Jaidev movies - Faasla (1974) (some cabaret-type song), and 'Dooriyan'
(1979).
I also remember that she sang for Saira Banu 'How sweet dadaji' in
the Dharmendra starrer Saazish (1975, MD Shankar-Jaikishan). Its a
duet where Asha Bhosle sings for Helen (who comes out of a cake or
something similarly stupid like that).
The movies where she sang under her father's baton are 'Bees saal
pehle' (as already mentioned), 'Faraar'(1965) and 'Girlfriend' (1960).
Apart from these, and the already mentioned 'Masoom' (1960) and 'Call
girl' (1974), the Internet tells me that Ranu Mukherjee also sang
'Toofan aur bijli' (1975, MD Chitragupt), 'Shankar dada' (1976, MD
Sonik-Omi), Minoo (1976, MD Salil Choudhury), Chandramukhi (Salman
Khan starrer, so MD not important) etc etc.
I don't know when she was born, but my parents used to have a
Rabindrasangeet record of Hemanta from the late 50's, (don't know
which year) which contained a duet with Ranu. She must be singing from
a very, very early age. She actually sang quite a few Bengali movie
songs.
As is well known, ( e.g from Musicindia online
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/MIO-Artists/Singers/Pages/KavitaKrishnamurthy.html
)
it was Ranu Mukherjee who introduced her college friend Kavita
Krishnamurthy to her father, who promptly allowed her to accompany him
in stage shows etc.
Samik
anil11...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:<56301d1.04092...@posting.google.com>...
Prithviraj Dasgupta
> I don't know when she was born, but my parents used to have a
> Rabindrasangeet record of Hemanta from the late 50's, (don't know
> which year) which contained a duet with Ranu. She must be singing from
> a very, very early age. She actually sang quite a few Bengali movie
> songs.
Are you sure about the Rabindrasangeet being from late 50's? The only
duets of this father-daughter duo that I am aware of are from a 1983
album. They are "amala dhabala paale" and "epaare mukhara holo".
-Prithviraj