5 Responses to "Meri bagiya mein kooke koyaliya"
November 14, 2014 at 10:40 pm
@ Atul ji – thanks a lot for this post and the details. Yes, the software to identify voices would have been a helpful lot, or we need ‘music lovers’ of that era who have watched this movies and also taken interest in the music of those films.
Thanks !!
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November 16, 2016 at 2:14 am
Atul-ji: I have a feeling this could have been the great Kanan Devi. Of course, I am not sure because that was the voice most female singers unconsciously emulated in lilt, even in that great age of originality. I would love to know who this singer anyway is because I was just listening to this song one more time when I came upon this ‘thread’. Great duet with Asit Baran, anyway.
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Kersi N. Mistry
11/15/2016
November 16, 2016 at 4:17 pm
The actress on whom the unidentified female voice is lip syncing appears to be Bharati Devi. I have checked the face with that of Bharati Devi in a Lux advertisement in ‘Filmindia’ magazine.
According to a RMIM discussions, Bharati Devi was a good singer. However, she was never given opportunities to sing her own song in any of her HIndi films except one song in ‘Saugandh’ (1942).
I have checked the female voice in the song from “Saugandh’ (1942), https://atulsongaday.me/2013/07/27/raja-beti-kekra-la-goonthlu-tu/ which has been accredited to Shanti. There is some similarity in voice of Shanti with the female voice of the song under reference.
In the RMIM discussions, it was mentioned that the Bharati Devi’s name in the film ‘Saugandh’ was Shanti.
With these permutations and combinations, I feel that the unidentified female voice in the song could be that of Bharati Devi. Since the song is very short, Pankaj Mullick could have used her voice for the song.
Incidentally, according to Dr Jyoti Prakash Guha, Pankaj Mullick originally rehearsed the songs for Doctor (1941) with Bharati Devi, But later he recorded the songs with Ila Ghosh.
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November 7, 2014 at 8:22 am
Hello Atulji, Happy Newyear. This song’s female voice is Sunanda Banerji. Dadu Chicago https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0N5Xw9ii8-_w9pjmiu_u66YWgrZNaxn8 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 02:11:26 +0000 To: sumant37@hotmail.com
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November 7, 2014 at 9:52 am
The video link provided by me is the same as provided by you, so I have already gone through the details mentioned there. According to this Youtube link uploader, every song of this movie is sung by Asit Baran and Sunanda Bannerji, which is not correct. Sunanda Bannerji was not a singer. I have watched the movie now and so I know that the details provided by the uploader with the songs are mostly incorrect. He has not bothered to go through the credits of the movie which can easily tell the real facts about who is who in the movie.
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