The new thread is to be devoted to the legendary playback singer Mukesh.Īlthough Mr Romee himself is tight lipped about the launching, OurHFM has obtained copies of the blue print he prepared for the thread in consultation with top Mukesh Bhakts across the globe. RIP.” With Shamshad Begum’s demise, another unforgettable song from the glory days of Hindi film music now passes onto the jukebox of memory.Grand Mukesh collection thread to begin on Birth Anniversary Day on July 22!ĭelhi, July 18: Romee_Win the new musical wizard on the OURHFM horizon is all set to start yet another great thread in the wake of tremendous success of his Chitragupt thread. Following her death, actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, “The golden voice of Shamshad Begum, playback singer of great eminence in some of the most historic film songs. It is ironical that towards the fag end of her career, two of her top songs were picturized on males: The song Kajra mohabbatwala was filmed on Biswajeet (in drag) and Nathaniya hale to bada maza hoye (film: Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong, 1971) on Mehmood (again dressed as a woman). The power and depth in her voice, once regarded as her strength, was now considered to be too commanding to be used as playback on heroines. Towards the latter half of the 1960s, she started losing out on A grade banners. Dissatisfied with Timothy’s rendition, Shamshad Begum admonished her gently, “Tumhari aawaaz kyun nahi nikalti? Abhi to tum jawan ho.” When Timothy replied, “Aapki awaaz jaisi hamari aawaz kahan,” she lit up, smiled and said, “Aap acchha gate hain, majbooti se gaya karo.” In her long career, Shamshad Begum experienced both highs and lows. Sixties playback singer Usha Timothy remembers an anecdote about the singer during the recording of Ae sapnon ke raja (film: Nateeja, 1969) that she co-sang with the veteran singer. Shamshad Begum was proud of her voice and hated being photographed. I was made to stand on a school bench and lead the school prayer after that,” she told film journalist Lata Khubchandani in an interview several years ago.
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One day the principal announced that there was one voice that stood out. “When I joined school in Lahore, we used to sing a prayer before our classes. But the two sang plenty of songs together some of whom are popular to this day such as Holi aayi re kanhai (film: Mother India) and Door koi gaye (film: Baiju Bawra, 1952) Even as a child, her voice was special. In the 1950s, there was industry gossip about rivalry between them. That she never sang with K L Saigal remained an everlasting regret for her. “The song, Saawan ke nazare hain, from Khazanchi (1941) became wildly popular,” recalls Khayyam. Her earliest film hits came with composer Ghulam Haider. Shamshad Begum first made her mark singing non-filmi songs for AIR’s Lahore station in 1930s.
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But her biggest chartbusters came from Naushad (Jadoo, Anokhi Ada, Mela, Dulari, Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam) and O P Nayyar (CID, Naya Daur, Kismet). Ghulam Haider, Anil Biswas, Sajjad, C Ramchandra, S D Burman and Shankar-Jaikishan, she sang for all music maestros in the 1940s and 1950s. You can call me unlucky that I couldn’t work with her,” says renowned composer Khayyam. And as a person, she was humble and disciplined. A surprisingly high number of her smash hits were remixed: starlet Tanushree Dutta gyrated sexily to the reworked rhythms of Saiyan dil mein aana re (film: Bahar, 1951).
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Ask any wedding band master, even today there’s no better bidaai song than Pee ke ghar aaj pyaari dulhaniya chali (film: Mother India, 1957) and Chhod babul ka ghar mohe pee ke nagar (film: Babul, 1950).
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The Amritsar-born playback singer, who passed away on Tuesday after prolonged illness in Mumbai at the age of 94, crooned evergreen hits such as Mere piya gaye Rangoon (with Chitalkar, film: Patanga, 1949), Saiyan dil mein aana re (film: Bahar, 1951), Leke pehla pehla pyaar (with Mohd Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, film: CID, 1956), Teri mehfil mein kismet aazma kar (with Lata Mangeshkar, film: Mughal-e-Azam, 1960) and Kajra mohabbatwala (with Asha Bhonsle, film: Kismat, 1968). In a voice that was distinctive - nasal, deep and muscled - Shamshad Begum sang an impressive cache of chartbusters spanning three decades that continue to be heard and hummed even as generations come and go. And by the time it got over, the Golden Age of melody in Hindi films was gone. When her singing career began, Indian cinema had barely started talking.