Shamshad Begum singing multilingual song for P.Bhanumathi in Nishan 1949

Surprisingly this film produced by Gemini Films of Madras was released in the same year as Filmistan's Shabnam(1949) and carried a multilingual song similar to 'Ye duniya roop ki chor' of Shabnam(Music S.D.Burman) also sung by Shamshad Begum (Can somebody say which was released first ?). Music Directors of Nishan were S.Rajeshwara Rao, M.D.Parthasarathy & Balakrishna Kalla. But here we have another surprise-Shamshad Begum sings 'Rongila rongila rongila re' of S.D.Burman in the middle of the song ! No copyright infringement intended.

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Music

Tags:

• Shamshad
• Begum
• Nishan
• 1949
• Multilingual
• song
• for
• P.
• Bhanumathi

[srinivasanchanniga]

Thank you for your nice comments and information dear iseeking.

[srinivasanchanniga]

You are right dear Madhubala, Rongila is a Bengali song sung by S.D.Burman and has been used by him in Devdas

[srinivasanchanniga]

Thank you deepasahni for the kind information. But my question was 'Which film was released first - Shabnam or Nishan' ?

[iseeking]

I wish Bhanumathi were allowed to sing this song herself. I read that Rongila was a folk song that S D Burman heard when he was a child, some Vaishnav nomad saints used to sing it, just as it was shown in Devdas! That tune stayed with him and when he had the chance to use it in Devdas, he was thrilled. And Bimalda retained the context, too.

[madhubala2009]

Very nice this genre of multilingual songs,illustrating India's variety....By the way I heard somewhere that Rongila was a folk song that was sung as such by S D Burman(of course his instrumentation and Voice make it into something different!),and the same melody was later used by him for Devdas:"Aan milo,aan milo" , my favorite song in this film.

[deepasahni]

Telugu/Tamil/Hindi Apoorva Sahodarulu/Apoorva Sahodar gal /Nishan (1949) was produced on Gemini films by S.S Vasan..Actors M.K Radha and Bhanumathi, Ranjan , R. Nagendra Rao as lead..