“The song, Saawan ke nazare hain, from Khazanchi (1941) became wildly popular,”recalls Khayyam. Her earliest film hits came with composer Ghulam Haider. Shamshad Begum first made her mark singing non-filmi songs for AIR’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 couldn’t work with her,” 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 there’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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