"Kabi Tanhiyon Main Yon Hamari Yaad Aayegi. Singer of this sweet song Mubark Begum passed away. Listen this song and paid tributess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYFab53aqM
https://in.news.yahoo.com/bollywoods-golden-era-singer-mubarak-begum-dead-80-132805580.html
She Had a very miserable life especially during her last days. Mubarak Begum's daughter died due to Parkinson Disease. Thereafter , Mubarak begum's own health took a serious down turn. During this period, Salman Khan from the Hindi film industry. Lata too extended Financial support to Mubarak Begum. Additionally a few Charitable trusts helped Mubarak begum for her medical expenses.
Some of her memorable renditions are still living in the hearts of music lovers. She sang along with Lata and Shamshad begum, "Husn Ki baarat in Myghal e Azam, Naushad scored the music.
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:usha manohar wrote:anil wrote:usha manohar wrote:Shamshad Begum was one of the top singers in the fifties and sixties and went on to sing under OP Nayyar right until the seventies in films like Kismet ( Kajra muhobbatwala) and a few other films. But Salma Agha was nowhere near any of these singers since she went off key, so naturally faded away !
Some of the very beautiful songs that Mubarak Begum has sung and the ones I particularly like are Neend ud jaaye teri chain se sonewale, a duet with Lata Mangeshkar and Chah karni thi chah kar baithe again a duet with asha Bhosle , Zara kehedo fizaon se with Talat Mehmood and Mere aansuon pe na muskura a solo composed by Dattaram..
Listen, Bemurwat Bewafa Beganey Dil Bat AAP, it is song of Sushila,combination of Beautiful poetry and voice of Mubrak Begum.
Yes of course I know the song since it is quite well known and popular...A few years back, Mubarak Begum was in a very bad state finding it difficult to meet her medical expenses , one of the music forums where I was a member collected some money from all the members and handed it over to her. Later many people spoke up for her and the government gave some sort of a pension to her.
That was very nice of you and your friends. It is so sad that the culture of our country is such that truly talented are ignored and have to get financial help from others whereas those with no talent earn crores of rupees.
Individually it was small contributions by the members but collectively it did make a tidy sum that must have helped her ..I feel that the old singers and actors should be helped out by the so called great stars of today who are rolling in money not knowing what to do with it.. Today's actors are much better off even if they do not become super stars .
Coming to the rescue of movie stars when they are in bad condition , financially took place in Telugu film industry too. An actor known as Rajanal known for his villain roles, fell sick and he was not left with a single paisa to bear the medical expenses.Astonishingly, the help came not from the established movie actors, but from those small time actors who work as Extras.
usha manohar wrote:anil wrote:usha manohar wrote:Shamshad Begum was one of the top singers in the fifties and sixties and went on to sing under OP Nayyar right until the seventies in films like Kismet ( Kajra muhobbatwala) and a few other films. But Salma Agha was nowhere near any of these singers since she went off key, so naturally faded away !
Some of the very beautiful songs that Mubarak Begum has sung and the ones I particularly like are Neend ud jaaye teri chain se sonewale, a duet with Lata Mangeshkar and Chah karni thi chah kar baithe again a duet with asha Bhosle , Zara kehedo fizaon se with Talat Mehmood and Mere aansuon pe na muskura a solo composed by Dattaram..
Listen, Bemurwat Bewafa Beganey Dil Bat AAP, it is song of Sushila,combination of Beautiful poetry and voice of Mubrak Begum.
Yes of course I know the song since it is quite well known and popular...A few years back, Mubarak Begum was in a very bad state finding it difficult to meet her medical expenses , one of the music forums where I was a member collected some money from all the members and handed it over to her. Later many people spoke up for her and the government gave some sort of a pension to her.
Your deed is Noble one, Indeed when we helps some one we helps our self.
rambabu wrote:The attitude of helping others who need help is really commendable. This attitude comes from within. Mubarak Begum was helped from not only from the actors like Salman Khan ,but from many voluntary organizations.
What I read in news papers, looking she was needs more what she got.
anil wrote:rambabu wrote:The attitude of helping others who need help is really commendable. This attitude comes from within. Mubarak Begum was helped from not only from the actors like Salman Khan ,but from many voluntary organizations.
What I read in news papers, looking she was needs more what she got.
May be. But her ailment was a chronic one. At this stage, even if she had got the required amount of medicines or monetary help,it would not have worked.
Many older film artists and singers have gone through difficult times because they did not earn enough or were not wise enough to save when the going was good. Recently, I was reading about another very talented singer/actress Sulakshana Pandit in similar circumstances where she was just about managing to survive.
Some of the actors or Singers, though they earned a good money in their hey days, did not care to save for the Rainy day. They were under the impression that their income, popularity will remain forever. This is nothing but lack of fore thought. Ultimately, such people had to live in penury in the last phase of their lives. I'm not aware of Sulakshna Pandit's case.
A lot has been said about the monopoly of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle over other singers including Mubarak Begum. This article throws some light over this issue while paying rich tributes to Mubarak Begum and her singing voice ..
Mubarak Begum was endowed with several unique qualities. One of the trait in her voice was, she was different from others. It's difficult to find a singer, whose rendition is Okayed in a single take. Even the legendary Lata was not an exception.The Doyen of of Hindusthani Classical music, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan's complement, that Mubarak begum renders without off key, itself says , Mubarak Begum's greatness.
usha manohar wrote:A lot has been said about the monopoly of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle over other singers including Mubarak Begum. This article throws some light over this issue while paying rich tributes to Mubarak Begum and her singing voice ..
Thanks for the link, it is indeed a very well written and lovely analysis of Mubarak Begum's voice. It is only now that the trend of rough, husky, voices with a different kind of sweetness are appreciated only now. I think the trend might have been set by Usha Utthup, I simply love her voice and others too, Shalmali Kholgade, Rekha Bharadwaj among others. But when Mubarak Begum was in the industry, it was the era of sweet voices as embodied by Asha, Lata, Suman Kalyanpur etc. But still, Mubarak's is a genre in it self and very lovely to listen to.
I feel, Mubarak begum , although was a well known Singer, who sang for the most noted Music Directors of her time like Shanker Jaikishen, Naushad to name a few, failed to realize the importance of capitalizing her talents, which is highly essential in careers connected to the entertainment industry. All she was interested in was more Music and less Money. Mubarak begum's day to day expenses and generosity did not allow her save much money. This resulted in much suffering in her last days of her career.
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