Boojh mera kya naam re nadi kinare gaon re, film CID (1956) Leke pehla pehla pyaar (with Rafi and Asha), film: CID (1956)Д©. Kabhi aar kabhi paar, film: Aar Paar (1954)ДЁ. Ek do teen aaja mausam hai rangeen, Awara (1953)Д§. Saiyan dil mein aana re, film: Bahar (1951)Д¦. Bachpan ke din bhula na dena (with Lata), film: Deedar (1951)ДҐ. Chhod babul ka ghar mohe pee ke nagar, film: Babul, 1950Д¤. Mere piya gaye Rangoon (with Chitalkar), film: Patanga, 1949ДЈ. Udan khatole pe ud jaoon (with Zohrabai Ambalewali), film: Anmol Ghadi (1946)Дў. RIP.' With Shamshad BegumвЂ™s demise, another unforgettable song from the glory days of Hindi film music now passes onto the jukebox of memory.ДЎ. 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).ДЇollowing her death, actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, вЂњThe golden voice of Shamshad Begum, playback singer of great eminence in some of the most historic film songs.

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. In her long career, Shamshad Begum experienced both highs and lows. Dissatisfied with TimothyвЂ™s rendition, Shamshad Begum admonished her gently, вЂњTumhari aawaaz kyun nahi nikalti? Abhi to tum jawan ho.вЂќ When Timothy replied, вЂњAapki awaaz jaisi hamari aawaz kahan,вЂќshe lit up, smiled and said, вЂњAap acchha gate hain, majbooti se gaya karo.вЂќ 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,вЂќ she told film journalist Lata Khubchandani in an interview several years ago. One day the principal announced that there was one voice that stood out. вЂњWhen 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)Д®ven 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.

вЂњThe song, Saawan ke nazare hain, from Khazanchi (1941) became wildly popular,вЂќrecalls Khayyam. Her earliest film hits came with composer Ghulam Haider. Shamshad Begum first made her mark singing non-filmi songs for AIRвЂ™s Lahore station in 1930s. 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 couldnвЂ™t work with her,вЂќ 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). Ask any wedding band master, even today thereвЂ™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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