Happy birthday, Manna Dey!
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P.S. Looks as though this is turning into a day to pay tribute to Salil Chowdhury and Shaleindra, too. (But of course it is – it’s May Day!)
And today, Manna Dey also Joins Shamshad Begum in the 93 Club
01 Tuesday May 2012
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Belated Happy Birthday Mannaji.
I like his singing voice. Quite rich.
One of my favourite Manna Dey songs is;
Thanks, Pacifist, that one’s nice.
Actually, some of my favorite Manna Dey song sequences also included Balraj Sahni (picturized either on him or near him), but I went into those for the coincidence of birthdays (and May Day) last year. I found the one for this year’s post when I was looking for a duet between Manna Dey and Shamshad Begum (there aren’t many of those, I don’t think…). I also found Anu’s writeup of the film that this comes from, Musafir, and it definitely is a movie that I want to see. (Anu, if you’re reading this, I wrote a comment on your post but I lost it somehow; then time kind of ran out before I had to do many other things.)
Anu’s neglecting her blog (and everyone’s too), but for a very good reason – she’s in India :-)
She mentioned this over at harvey’s.
I know of a few Manna Dey and Shamshad Begum duets. Are you going to put up a post?
Musafir is available online, but unfotunately without subs.
Oh, I just looked at comments on Harvey’s blog and saw some comment about that. Unfortunately, life has been such lately that I haven’t had as much time for other blogs (only my own, which is the first I escape to when times get rough – and they just recently have gotten rough(er) in here…). Also, Harvey’s latest blog post was about a quiz, and I knew that whatever it was, I wouldn’t get it.
So… I had no idea Anu was going to Bombay. She had mentioned trips to Kerala, usually in August. So, this is news to me, thanks, Pacifist.
Regarding the Manna Dey and Shamshad Begum duets – well, I looked for them but found very little, at least in terms of those that would actually have film clips to go with them. But maybe I just wasn’t looking in the right place or didn’t know where to look. This is it as far as any post I was going to do on the topic. I had actually thought about it as a combination 93rd birthday post, since they have 93rd birthdays just 17 days apart. But this is how it ended up :) , so if you have any more, feel free to send them on over under this post.
By the way, I also thought of a combo 92-year-olds’ post on April 7, when Ravi Shankar turned 92, but the others hadn’t turned 93 yet. :) Also on the possible list was Sitara Devi, whose age actually was confirmed as 91 in an article I saw last fall, and Juthika Roy, who adds up to 91 or 92 as well. But, didn’t have enough time and material on hand to do that idea justice.
I’m afraid you probably know these songs already. This one’s from Bewaqoof (with Edwins, so on tom’s site too).
This fdollowing is from Miss India 1957.
The voice sounds more like Lata’s, but one can hear the difference when she sounds like Shamshad. The reason why shamshad is the choice is because it says so on the clip :)
This third one is from Mother India, and popular, and is not really a duet. It involves three singers.
This one from Upkar, also not a duet, but three.
There’s a 1948 film called Hum Bhi Insaan Hain with Manna De as one of the music directors and Shamshad Begum sings for him. This song does not mention the singers but to my ears it ‘does’ sound like Manna De and Shamshad
oops, the Mother India song is not right. :-(
nopes. Manna de is also one of the singers. there are so many of them. :-/