Classical Singers in Hindi Film Songs-1
Ashok
> When a great Hindusthani Classical singer sings for movies,
> the result is always fascinating. Naushad and Vasant Desai managed
> to present Masters from Classical music in their times. This has
> almost disappeared nowadays. In recent (not-so-recent actually) past,
> only other instance which comes to my mind is Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, in
> Amol Palekar's "Ankahi". In a good cinema hall, the effect of his voice
> was absolutely amazing. Who was the MD ?
>
> There may be other instances. No, not Shiv-Hari, I mean singers.
> Somebody pl. provide better info. than this post.
>
> - Abhay.
> A humble lover of Hindusthani Classical Music.
>
It is possible that, in addition to the trend becmong rarer, whatever little efforts
are made in that direction do not receive any attention, due to lack of radio and
TV play. I will mention whatever I have managed to gather sporadically. In the
Indian music stores in the United States, hit-film cassettes are ubiquitous; but it
is almost impossible to come to know of "obscure" films and songs.
Unfotunately, to my chagrin, I couldn't do much better in my visits to India either
(although I must admit that Bangalore is not the best of places to look for them).
There is a HMV cassette of mid-1980s called "Classics from Films:
Classical Artists Sing for Films." It has the following ten songs:
1. Baiju bawra: "Aaj gaawat man mero"
Naushad: Paluskar and Amir Khan.
2. Shabab: "Daya karo giridhar gopal"; Naushad; Amir Khan
3. Mughal-e-azam: "Prem jogan ban ke"; Naushad; Bade Ghulam
4. Geet gaya pattharon ne: Title song; Ramlal; Kishori Amonkar
5. Sant Tulsidas: "Ram prabhu adhar";
Ram Kadam; Bhimsen Joshi
6. Bawarchi: "Kahe kanha karat barjori";
Madan Mohan; Lakshmi Shankar
7. Bhumika: "Mandar baju re"; Vanraj Bhatia; Saraswati Rane
8. Gaman: "Aaya sanwariya tohe garwa laga loon"
Jaidev; Hira Devi Mishra
9. Main tulsi tere angan ki: "Saiyan rooth gaye";
Laxmikant-Pyarelal; Shobha Gurtu
10. The Kudrat song by Parveen Sultana mentioned by Abhay
and others.
Among the important ones omitted here are: Amir Khan singing the
title song of 'Jhanak jhanak payal baje' (I don't know any other
Vasant Desai composition using classical singers), the other
song from 'Mughale-azam' ("Shubhadin aayo"), and the songs from
'Umrao Jaan.'
(continued)
Aniruddha Deglurkar
In Vijeta(sp?), there is a sequence in which Rekha is 'riyaazing' in
the morning. Does anybody know whose lent the voice to that short
'cheez'(if I may say so). Me feels it was Kishori Amonkar.
-Aniruddha
--
Chetan Vinchhi
a...@verity.com (Aniruddha Deglurkar) wrote:
>
> Among the important ones omitted here are: Amir Khan singing the
> title song of 'Jhanak jhanak payal baje' (I don't know any other
> Vasant Desai composition using classical singers), the other
> song from 'Mughale-azam' ("Shubhadin aayo"), and the songs from
> 'Umrao Jaan.'
>
>In Vijeta(sp?), there is a sequence in which Rekha is 'riyaazing' in
>the morning. Does anybody know whose lent the voice to that short
>'cheez'(if I may say so). Me feels it was Kishori Amonkar.
>
a beautiful song based on Ahir Bhairav (I think). It was
sung by none other than Asha Bhosale. It remains one of
my favourite Asha songs. There is an interesting anecote
associated with this song... When Asha was scheduled to
sing this song, she suddenly took ill. But she could
not (*would* not) miss her schedule for anything. So she
landed up at the studio with a high fever. And she stunned
everyone present at the recording with a fabulous performance !
Such is the commitment great musicians have towards their
art !
>-Aniruddha
Cheers !
Chetan.
PS - There is a male voice accompanying Asha. He is presumably
Rekha's guru in the movie. I think Vasantrao Deshpande lent
his voice to the "guru". I am not *absolutely* sure.
Chetan Vinchhi
Ashok <adhar...@worldbank.org> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>Among the important ones omitted here are: Amir Khan singing the
>title song of 'Jhanak jhanak payal baje' (I don't know any other
>Vasant Desai composition using classical singers), the other
>song from 'Mughale-azam' ("Shubhadin aayo"), and the songs from
>'Umrao Jaan.'
As far as I know, 'Umrao Jaan' has only the raagmala
sung by Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.
In addition to the songs mentioned in this post and the
next one, I can think of a couple of others -
- 'ghat ghat mein ram ramaiyya...' sung by Pt. Firoz Dastur
in 'Bhumika', MD Vanraj Bhatia.
- a couple of songs ('shub ghaDi aayi...' and a tarana)
sung by Parveen Sultana in 'Razia Sultan', MD Khayyam.
- Songs of 'Pakeezah' set to music by Naushad include songs
by Parveen Sultana ('kaun gali gayo shaam...') and
Shobha Gurtu (which song(s) ?).
>
>(continued)
Cheers !
Chetan
Ashok
> Ashok <adhar...@worldbank.org> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >Among the important ones omitted here are: Amir Khan singing the
> >title song of 'Jhanak jhanak payal baje' (I don't know any other
> >Vasant Desai composition using classical singers), the other
> >song from 'Mughale-azam' ("Shubhadin aayo"), and the songs from
> >'Umrao Jaan.'
>
> As far as I know, 'Umrao Jaan' has only the raagmala
> sung by Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.
==> Yes. With Shahida Khan and Runa Prasad. Shahida Khan sings another
song in the film ("Jhoola kinne dala"). I don't know whether she
(and Runa Prasad) are classical singers.
In addition to the songs mentioned in this post and the
> next one, I can think of a couple of others -
> - 'ghat ghat mein ram ramaiyya...' sung by Pt. Firoz Dastur
> in 'Bhumika', MD Vanraj Bhatia.
> - a couple of songs ('shub ghaDi aayi...' and a tarana)
> sung by Parveen Sultana in 'Razia Sultan', MD Khayyam.
> - Songs of 'Pakeezah' set to music by Naushad include songs
> by Parveen Sultana ('kaun gali gayo shaam...') and
==> Thanks. I'll add them to my list.
> Shobha Gurtu (which song(s) ?).
>
> Chetan
==> The song is 'Bandhan baandho." I am unclear about a bunch of
songs that got released in 1977 as Pakeeza RangBirang, six years after
the movie came out. I dnon't know whether extra footage was added to
the film or just the songs were released. This is one of them. So is
"Chalo dildaar chalo" as a Lata solo. Although all Rafi does is
repeat the same line in the duet version with Lata singing most of
the lines, it sounds far better than the solo version.
Thanks for letting me know about all these songs.
Ashok
Kishore Krshna
Jogiya Mere Ghar Aaye & Chhed Diye Mere Dil Ke Taar.
Could you list all the songs that we've identified so far?
thanks,
Kishore