Mahal - Ye Raat Phir Na Aayegi

Marvelous song by Rajkumari and Zohrabai. Superb music by Khemchand Praksh in Mahal 1949

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Music

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• Rajkumari
• Zohrabai
• mahal

[ashoo26]

i heared before madhubala, Meenakumari was selected for this movie. But there bwcame problem in betwn KA and Meenaji

[SunahareGeet]

I had heard that Suraiyya was the initial choice but she (her grandmother) was demanding over a lakh and Madhubala agred for 25 thousand. We will never know.

[alokeprasad]

Which actresses are portraying the dancer and the singer on the screen?

[SunahareGeet]

Neelam and Kaneez

[EISENHEIM2452]

As a Westerner,I fell in love with this film over 25 years ago,I have it on DVD and must confess I still find it both entrancing and enchanting,Lataji is as usual wonderful in her range,hard to believe that she was 20 when she did this film,Madhubala remains a quintessential beauty and it's astonishing to think that she was only 16 when Mahal was filmed,superb music by Khemchand Prakash and in this clip,the young dancer is ethereal and erotic,yet possesses innocence also, sheer magic on film.

[Kiriko49]

Yes,more of all these superb singers who went out of fashion because of Lata...she is great but so are Rajkumari,Amirbai,Zohrabai,Sha­mshad begum,and so on...real grown up women's voices....

[Munibsamir]

Superb . Super singers and composers.Full marks to Zohra and Rajkumari.Excellent.

[kokokorina]

@orientlover1 Naani strongly opposed Suriya for her plan to marry Dev Anand first she didn't wana lose a golden goose secondly he was hindu, that rendered Suriya heart broken and hafl heartedly completed her films around 1962 and left the stardom, she would make occasional appearances with old fellows e.g musician Naushad in filmi functions, Her Naani died in miserable condition in a civil hospital, albeit suriya was millionaire woman, but she didn't forgive her Naani and left her die in misery.

[orientlover1]

@kokokorina Jaddan Bai died in 1949. About Madhubala's tomb, pls. type "burial place of Madhubala" in the google search box and read articles given therein. I have unfortunately no idea about Suyaiya's mother's (Naani) death.

[kokokorina]

@orientlover1 yes, and I have heard that recently the grave of Madhubala has been demolished by some muslim board in Mumbai, she was the most beautiful star in her time,

I read that Jaddan Bai died in somewhere in 1940's, and what about Suriya's Nani , when did she die?

[orientlover1]

@kokokorina Incidentally both Suraiya and Nargis are buried at Badaqabristan near Marine Lines in Mumbai. Death has brought them together.

[kokokorina]

@orientlover1 right , read Manto's khake, in which he wrote about Nargis, her Mother Jaddan Bai and yes he didn't mention about the rivalry between Suriya's naani and Nargis mother Jaddan Bai, in Manto's words Naani would compare Nargis face to a rotten papaya (Sarra hua papeetha) who Jaddan Bai would curse Suiya for her frontal bulging teeth as Dracula

[orientlover1]

@ashoo26 This film was released in1949 at which time Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi did not know each other. As such there was no possibility of any problem between the two.

[minshawi737]

@EISENHEIM2452 me too fall in live with this movie. i m 25 years old. i love ashok kumar & madhubala

[Muneeb58]

No doubt very well sung.

[orientlover1]

The story written by Kamal Amrohi was initially titled "Haveli" which was later picturized under the name "Mahal"