Re: GEETanjali - ha.Nsii chaa.Nd kii aaj niraalii

Date: 25 Feb 2003 12:55:02 -0800
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"naniwadekar" <email-address-deleted> wrote:
<<The film Hamrahi is one of Bimal Roy's earliest
directorial ventures, for New Theatres which had been
gradually losing its position of eminence in the 1940s.
But they still had Raichand Boral composing music. The
ISB has so far covered two films named Hamrahi. One is
Shankar Jaikishan's. The other is Kalyanji Anandji's. Now
Boral's film takes its rightful place. He has worked his
magic in the song with the obscure singer Binata Bose's
vocals. >>
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Prithviraj wrote:
<snipped>
> > Given her salary was $360/month as per caption in the picture,
> > I think she was quite a well established artiste around that period.
> >
Nani replied:
>
> In Hindi songscape, Binata Bose was 'obscure'. Even such good
> songs as she may have sung did not become very popular. That
> she was too young when New Theatres thrived in the 1930s is
> likely to have hurt her. It looks like she was born in 1927/28.
> The Hamrahi solo is the only song of hers I have heard so far.
>
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Right, a qualification of the sort "obscure _in HFM_" would be
appropriate because the HFM part was not evident in your earlier
post. Otherwise, somebody might as well start taking the
liberty of calling Ravi Shankar, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Bhimsen
Joshi etc. 'obscure', based just on their limited association
with HFM. Anyways, do not mind my picking on this relatively small
issue.
Hamrahi was a bilingual and the Bengali version is a milestone
in Bengali movies. IIRC, the actress who Binota Bose playbacked
for in this movie is Binota Roy (her real name, not the character's
name) - confuses me a lot as to which is which.
Bimal Roy's Hamrahi also falls in the same category as 'Veer
Savarkar' (ref. your recent post on a Marathi song's lyrics)
in that it is a Hindi movie with non-Hindi songs. One is
'madhu gandhe bharaa', a rabindrasangeet sung duet by HemantK
and KananD. The other is the national anthem. Are there any
other instances of the entire national anthem been used as
a song in a Hindi movie except K3G?
This version of 'madhu gandhe bharaa' was unknown to me until
recently. The only 'madhu gandhe bharaa' that one gets to
hear in recent times over the radio and in HMV releases
is the very popular Hemant-Lata duet - one side of Lata's first
Bengali disc in 1952. The tune of this song inspired AnilB to
compose 'more cha.nchal nainaa' in Angulimaal.
-Prithviraj