IMMORTAL SCENES- MEERA-1947-HINDI

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I have the rest 17 songs from the movie sound track strictly in the order Harmandir has listed them in Geetkosh this confirms that Geetkosh list is directly from production booklet.

The rest of the seven songs you have posted are from a non film private LP of M. S. Subbulakshmi ---EALP1297--published by Gramophone Co of India Ltd much later in 1965. It was a studio-cut LP with fresh performance in which violin accompaniment was credited to V. V. Subramaniam and mridangam accompaniment to T. K. Murthy, who came much later on the music scene. In 18-20 years since the films [Tamil and Hindi versions] the recording quality and orchestra had changed much. Obviously no credit was given to the three music directors on the LP.

You should have noticed the duration, which is more than 5 minutes in two songs and more than 4minutes in another.which was not possible on 10 inch record. More, the LP has 10 songs two of which were not in the film and were conceived much later. The blunder is that one of these two non film songs ‘hari tum haro jan ki bhir’ has been posted by you on no 04. It is not in the Geetkosh. Is it?

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Now I shall request you to hear these songs from 'The film' as well as those taken from 1965 HMV LP record simultaneously and see the several differences. Mainly--

[1] The difference of voice quality of an young MSS in her late twenties and that of a matured 50 years old one, ripe and more suited to Carnatic classical music.

[2] The interlude orchestral music with several North Indian instruments particularly melodious flute which has been profusely used [Naresh Bhattacharya was included as third music director for this---remember his DAK BANGLA47 songs of Suraiya ] The 1965 songs have only violin accompaniment.

[3] The songs themselves with difference in duration and rendering.

Notice particularly '' mane chakar rakho ji '' your posting [ at 02 ] of 1965 version which is pure and simple solo song whereas the film song [ my number 08A ] which is almost a chorus song with a male voice and a child voice distinctly heard..

Now dear Surjit, the least you could have done so far for the truth, authencity and credibility of your prestigious website was to remove the '04' bhajan ''hari tum haro jan ki bhir'' which has nothing whatsoever to do with MEERA1947,and was conceived and learned by MSS much after the release of the film, as you have known already. In fact the presence of this very bhajan in your postings drew my attention towards the private LP N0 EALP-1297.

TITLE MUSIC

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SAROJINI NAIDU SPEECH

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GOPAL HE

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VADHYA SANGEETH

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