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Dancer, actress, about 45 films, 1952-1960.
Baazooband (1954) song, Kis Sautan Ki Lagi
Adalat (1958) song, Ja Ja Re Ja Sajna
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A friend of mine posted a poster of Milan (1958) and wondered if the female was Nalini Jaywant. Another one said Nishee and wondered if any songs were picturized on her.
In old days, one would have to find the film, watch all the songs and see who is singing. These days there is the Hindi Film Database Online to help.
Here are the steps to use it.
1. Go to the Songs section (Hindi or English), let us go to
गाने (1,160 फीचर फिल्मों के 9,289 गानों की जानकारी, ब्राउज़ या खोज करें, 1951-1960)
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2. Look for Advanced Search and click on the drop down list of Where and scroll down to परदे पर, leave the Condition at Contains, in the Value type निशी
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3. Click on Apply to get
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You get all the songs where she is on screen. Note that all the other information you see in Hindi Film Geet Kosh, eg Record numbers are also included. For duets, the names mentioned are in the same order as the singers.
4. But we want Milan (1958). A look at the top reveals that there are 25 songs picturized on her, showing 5 or 10 on the first page. Scrolling down (or next page/s) reveals
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that shows the 2 songs picturized on her. We also see that in the first song Nalini Jaywant and Rajendra Singh are present and second one has Ajit.
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In the previous Musing, I showed a photo saying that Shankar-Jaikishan are the music directors of the Indo-British Production 'Tarzan Goes To India (English)'. I also showed screen caps from the actual DVD of the film that showed the music director to be Ken Jones with no mention of SJ.
I knew that if I make a 'bad' statement about SJ, their cult followers will come after me with pitchforks and axes, so instead of saying that 'SJ had nothing to do with the music of this film', I was careful to say that SJ were hired but they are not listed, I have no idea what happened.
Then Sandeep Apte posted a page from a Hindi film 'Tarzan Mera Sathi (Hindi)' that showed both Ken Jones and SJ as music directors. Later, I found that the Hindi Film Geet Kosh has listed the film in Volume 5.
So, SJ definitely gave music (jointly with Ken Jones) to the Hindi film, it remains unclear what they did for the English film.
Unfortunately, a video of the film is not available to me and the two songs were not issued on records, so the songs are only in the video. It would be nice to hear the songs or/and see the film.
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