Qadar mori na jani/ Dekho ayi pahli mohabbat ki raat from Shabnam (1949), lyrics Qamar Jalalabadi In the same year she sang another outstanding multilingual song in the film Nishan – Jaiyo jaiyo sipaiya bazaar daal meri chulhe chadhi.ģ. Shamshad Begum’s joyous voice is eminently suited for such fun songs. Kamini Kaushal does a fantastic job of enacting this song in many languages – Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil (the lyric uses the term ‘Madrasi’) and Punjabi. We have discussed her duets with Mukesh earlier while discussing his songs by SD Burman. With four solos and three duets with Mukesh, Shamshad Begum is the lead singer in the film. Ye duniya roop ki chor from Shabnam (1949), lyrics Gopal Singh ‘Nepali’ And I hit upon this song of historical value – the only song of Shamshad Begum in SD Burman’s debut film as a composer therefore, it has to be their very first song.Ģ.
One advantage of doing a commissioned article (as this one is – at the behest of the readers) is that you get to research more seriously. Kuchh rang badal rahi hai meri unki baatcheet from Shikari (1946), lyrics Gopal Singh ‘Nepali’ Here is an overview of their combination, continuing my tribute to SD Burman, as well as a tribute to the great singer Shamshad Begum on her first death anniversary (April 23).ġ. As I looked up more closely I came across many more of her songs than we are generally aware of. But when I closed my series on SD Burman last year, Mr Venkataraman treated it as the last of ‘that year’, and suggested that I cover his other prominent singers, namely Shamshad Begum, Suraiya, Talat Mahmood and Hemant Kumar this year. Generally I would not have given much thought to their combination as it appears quite counter-intuitive to me. Anyone else would not have even dared to try to enter this illustrious field, but the versatile genius that he was, SD Burman created his own niche with her, adapting his music to completely suit her style.
Shamshad Begum’s leading composers were Naushad, C Ramchandra, OP Nayyar and Ghulam Mohammad, and in the earlier era, Ghulam Haider.
When Shamshad Begum had a revival through remixes, the song that led the pack was Saiyna dil mein ana re, composed by SD Burman. SD Burman and Shamshad Begum were the leading lights of the two extremes – East Bengal and the West Punjab, yet when they combined they created a unique magic. A tribute on Shamshad Begum’s first death anniversary April 23Īs the ethnic stereotypes go, no two people can be further apart from each other than a Bengali and a Punjabi.
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