RMIM Archive Article "193".
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# Subject: Year in Hindi Films
# 1947 (Part 1): Saigal and Noorjahan gone
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# Posted by: Surjit Singh, dussh@ttacs.ttu.edu
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1947 - Part A: Saigal and Noorjahan gone.
Saigal was born on April 4, 1904 and learnt singing from his
mother Mrs. Kesar Kaur. Made just 28 movies and sang about 250
songs, including non-filmi songs. The legendary singer died on
January 18, 1947. His last movie was paravaanaa, his third and
last with suraiyaa. Baby khurshiid, later known as shyaamaa
played one of his siblings. The music was by khurshiid anvar and
lyrics were by madhok. Saigal sang five songs,
TuuT gaye sab sapane mere,
ai phuul hans ke baag me.n kaliyaa.n khilaaye jaa,
kahii.n ulajh naa janaa,
muhabbat me.n kabhii aisii bhii haalaat paaii jaatii hai,
baabul moraa maayakaa,
all classics. Suraiyaa matched him with equally great songs,
paapii papiihaa re,
aa jaa baalamaa rain andherii Dar laage,
jab tum hii nahi.n apane,
mere munDere naa bol.
There was another excellent song by raajakumaarii,
saiyaa.N ne unglii marorii re raam qasam sharamaa gaii
mai.n,
a song that is regretfully missing from the available video.
Excellent articles on Saigal are available in the RMIM
automailer.
A four-part article by Vish on Lata and Noorjahan, also available
on the RMIM Automailer is a must-read for all. The legendary
music director Sajjaad used to consider only Lata and Noorjahan
as singers, excluding all others, male or female. In return, on
Sajjaad's death on July 21, 1995, Noorjahan said, "mai.n to ye
sun kar bilkul bardaasht nahii.n kar sakii aur rone lag gaii. ye
log aise log hai.n jo roz paidaa nahii.n hote. mai.n apne ko
khushanasiib samajhatii huu.N ki mai.n-ne sajjaad ke saath gaayaa
hai. hum to ab sirf yaado.n me.n rah ga-e hai.." Last two movies
of Noorjahan in India were juganuu and mirzaa saahibaan. During
the filming of juganuu, she married the director s. h. rizvii.
This movie is distinguished by diliip's natural acting, a famous
rafi-Noorjahan duet,
yahaa.N badalaa vafaa kaa,
appearance of rafi as a college student in the chorus,
vo apanii yaad dilaane ko,
and a very young shashiikala mouthing the roshanaaraa begam
number,
desh kii puraqaif rangii.n sii fizaaon me.n kahii.n.
Noorjahan also sang the famous songs,
umange.n dil kii machalii.n,
aaj kii raat saaze dile puradard naa chhe.D,
tum bhii bhulaa do,
and the last one which has her coughing,
hame.n to shaame Gam me.n kaaTanii hai zindagii apanii.
In a dance sequence in a cultural program of the college was
filmed the song,
luuT javaanii phir nahii.n aanii, biit gayii to ek
kahaanii,
(sung by shamashaad) which goes on to show how "forward" movies
during your your parents' time were! The music was by firoz
nizaamii, B. A. and the lyrics by M. G. adiib and asaGar
sarahadii. Sulochana (real name Ruby Myers) was the incharge of
the girls' hostel. Kids, we shall meet more Sulochanas soon, very
soon.
mirzaa saahibaa.N had music by amaranaath, the father and his two
sons, husnalaal and bhagataraam. Lyrics were by qamar
jalaalaabaadii and aziiz kaashamiirii. Every single song was a
hit. The 10 songs include, two Noorjahan solos,
kayaa yahii teraa pyaar thaa,
aa jaa tujhe afasaanaa judaaii kaa sunaa.e.n.,
two Noorjahan-Durrani duets,
haath siine pe jo rakh do to qaraar aa jaaye,
tum aankho.n se duur ho,
a Durrani solo,
khaayegii Thokare.n ye javaanii kahaa.n kahaa.n,
two choruses with main voices of Noorjahan, Zohra and shamashaad,
haaye re u.D u.D jaaye,
rut rangiilii aayii,
one Zohra-shamashaad duet,
suno merii sarakaar javaanii kyaa kahatii hai,
a chorus featuring shamashaad,
aaj miyaa.n jii ko cha.Dh jaaye buKaar,
and, lastly, a solo by Zohra,
saamane galii me.n teraa ghar hai.
As the superbly-talented Noorjahan was leaving India, many other
people were coming to India. Among them was my father with his
wife and a male child, me.
Some other remarkable events of 1947 will make the second part of
this article to be posted very soon.
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Posted by Surjit Singh, a ``die-hard'' movie fan period.
From the RMIM Article Archive maintained by Satish Subramanian