I first started listening to film music when I was sixteen, and Talat Mehmood's voice sounded a lot like Hemant Kumar's. Still, Dev and Waheeda, this song and its picturization was magical. But the end was strangely put together, as if just for the sake of it. I listened to the song 'Tum to dil ke taar ched kar' and watched the film 'Roop ki rani, Choro ka raja' from beginning to end. Not to mention that the lyrics are sublime.Īnyway I first encountered Talat Mehmood when I followed an enchantingly beautiful song into a not so wonderful film. That film has exceedingly beautiful songs and Ghulam Mohommad's score for this and Pakeezah and right up there on my list of 'oncredible film score. As for this post, the only song I recognised (and love) is Dil e nadaan from Mirza Ghalib.
I always admire people who can care about something and still look at it with questions. And all the critiquing of films and music comes from a place of love. It renders an intangible love with a lot more meaning. Loving music and films is something which is very abstract and vague, but blogs like this give it a voice and a shape. I have been lapping up the last few posts but because I hardly have anything to add, I refrain from commenting. This is the place I come to, to educate myself. Mere jeevan mein aaya hai kaun (Asha just hums but it's a beautiful, haunting effect) I'm spoiled for choices here but I will confine myself to just a few songs.:-) Talat-Asha - Love your selection as well as the ones Madhu and others have posted. Talat-Geeta - Again, love your pick but here's a cute number from Makhichoos. Talat-Suman - The "Pyaar Ki Dastaan" song is lovely, but I'm partial to their duet from Darwaza - Ek dil do hain talabgar. Talat-Lata - Love the song from "Aangarey." I'm torn between the heartbreaking "aasmaan wale teri duniya mein" from Laila majnu and the bubbly "aji humko hai tumse pyaar" from Mehbooba, so you get both.:-) But before I get to my favorites of their songs, let me mention some of his songs with others that I love. I second Anu's motion - you should totally do a Talat-Asha duets post, Madhu! :-) I rather surprised myself by mostly coming up with his duets with Asha when I thought of Talat duets I like.:-) They have a fair and varied quantity of songs together. It was perhaps one of the few films of the time (or even later) where children on screen remained normal children instead of precocious mini-adults.
She was around 6 or 7 when she acted in Boot Polish, and was a complete natural in front of the camera.
(There is also another girl, seen in the screenshot above, on whom the first part of the song is picturised, who is uncredited.) Though the story is ostensibly about both siblings, it is Naaz who steals the show (she won a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival). The song was picturised on lyricist Shailendra who appears as the blind beggar, and on Baby Naaz who plays the little girl separated from her brother. The juxtaposition of happiness (the girl is excited at going away to her husband's home) and sadness (a brother missing his sister who is separated from him) makes the pathos even deeper. I had Do dil dhadak rahe hain aur awaaz ek hain from Insaaf on my short list, but decided to post this instead, because there is a contrast between the words as sung, and its picturisation.
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