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Noor Jehan – C. Ramchandra – Collaboration

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Back to Legends – Noor Jehan

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C. Ramchandra & Noor Jehan

Noor Jehan in Lal Haveli (1944)

Noor Jehan sang only 1 song for C. Ramchandra in Lal Haveli (1944) – Aao mere pyaare sanwariya.

C. Ramchandra on Noor Jehan

C. Ramchandra: “If you must know, what I really saw in Lata was a Marathi Noorjehan. Noorjehan was my ideal as a singer. You must surely know that I even composed a solo for Noorjehan in ‘Lal Haveli’, the film in which I was an assistant to Mir Sahib. This music director was not available to do the last song of the film, so I got a rare opportunity to compose it myself and, what is more, record `Malka-e-Tarannum’ Noorjehan as Aao mere pyaare sanwariya. From that moment, Noorjehan became my vocal idol, my vocal ideal.”

Raju Bharatan: “So what you saw in Lata was a Marathi Noorjehan,” I said. “And wasn’t it in Noorjehan’s vocal idiom you cast Lata in ‘Anarkali’?”

C. Ramchandra: “Almost all songs I did initially with Lata were composed with the image of Lata as a Marathi Noorjehan,” admitted C. Ramchandra candidly…

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