TALAT
MAHMOOD
'FACT FILE'
TALAT'S FIRST
RECORDING : "Sab din ek samaan nahin tha" a non film (HMV)
song in 1941
TALAT'S FIRST FILM RECORDING : "Jago musafir jago" for film RAJLAXMI in 1945
TALAT'S LAST RECORDING : Ghazal album titled "GHAZAL KE SAAZ UTHAO"
in 1986-HMV
TALAT
HAS SUNG 747 HITS IN 12 INDIAN LANGUAGES
:
Urdu/ Hindi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Telugu, Gujrati, Marathi, Malayalam,
Punjabi, Sindhi, Awadhi, Marwari, Assamese.
TALAT
HAS STARRED IN 13 FILMS MAKING HIM ONE OF BOLLYWOOD'S
BIGGEST
SINGING STARS
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"RAJLAXMI" |
1945 |
KANANBALA |
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"TUM
AUR MAIN" |
1947 |
KANANDEVI |
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"SAMAPTI"
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1949 |
BHARTI
DEVI |
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"ARAAM" |
1951 |
MADHUBALA
, DEV ANAND |
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"DIL-E-NADAAN"
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1953
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SHYAMA,
PEACE KANWAL |
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"DAAK
BABU" |
1954
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NADIRA |
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"WARIS"
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1954
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SURAIYA,
NADIRA |
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"RAFTAAR" |
1955
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NADIRA |
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"DIWALI
KI RAAT" |
1956 |
ROOPMALA,
SHASHIKALA |
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"EK
GAON KI KAHANI"
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1957 |
MALA
SINHA |
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"LALA
RUKH" |
1958
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SHYAMA |
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"MAALIK"
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1958
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SURAIYA |
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"SONE
KI CHIDIYA" |
1958
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NUTAN |
TALAT HAS RECEIVED INNUMERABLE AWARDS ALL THROUGH HIS ILLUSTRIOUS
CAREER
:
Padmabhushan Award by
Government of India
Maharashtra State Govt.
Film Award
The Ashirwad Award
The Lata Mangeshkar
Puraskar
The Alami Urdu Conference
Award
The Bombay Film Critics
Award
The Ghalib Award
The Naushad Ali Award
The Film Journalists Award
The Cinegoers Association
Award
The Begum Akhtar Award
EMI
Lifetime Achievement Disc
The Lions Club Award
The Rotary Club Award ....... and many, many, more .
TALAT HAS
SUNG PLAYBACK FOR MOST OF THE MAJOR STARS OF INDIAN
CINEMA
:
Dilip Kumar,
Raj Kapoor,
Shammi Kapoor,
Shashi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Manoj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Bharat Bhooshan,
Premnath, V. Shantaram, Ashok Kumar, Sanjay Khan, Guru Dutt, Pradeep
Kumar ...... and many more.
THE GOLDEN
AGE OF MUSIC IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE 50's WHEN TALAT
RULED AS KING. Some of the music directors TALAT
has sung for are :
Shanker Jaikishan, Madan
Mohan, Naushad, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Khaiyam,
Ravi, Anil Biswas, Chitragupt, O.P.Nayyar, Kalyanji Anandji,
Khemchand Prakash, Ghulam Mohammad, Jaidev, Roshan, Vasant Desai, S.D.Burman,
Sajjad,
Salil Choudhury, C. Ramchander, Husnlal Bhagatram,
Aziz Hindi,
Alla Rakha Qureishi, Ali Akbar Khan, Avinash Vyas, Iqbal, K.Datta,
Gulshan Sufi, P.Govind Ram, Ghantsala, Chic Chocolate, Jamaal Sen,
Jimmy, Timir Baran, Dhaniram, Bulo C Rani, R C Boral, Snehal Bhatkar,
Sardar Mallik, S Mohinder, Hansraj Behl,...... and many more.
TALAT HAS
SUNG HIS MOST POPULAR DUETS WITH
:
Lata Mangeshkar, Asha
Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum, Suraiya, Sudha Malhotra, Suman
Kalyanpur, Hemlata, P. Sushila, Mubarak Begum, Amirbai Karnataki,
Jikki, Nirmala, Madhubala Zaveri, Rajkumari, .....and many more.
TALAT
WAS THE ONLY SINGER IN THE FILM INDUSTRY WHOSE URDU DICTION WAS FLAWLESS
AND PERFECT. NO OTHER SINGER COULD MATCH HIM ON THIS COUNT ! SOME OF THE
GIANTS OF THE POETIC WORLD (SHAYER'S / POETS ) WHO HAVE
SPECIALLY PENNED SOUL STIRRING AND HEART WARMING LYRICS FOR TALAT:
Majrooh Sultanpuri, Hasrat Jaipuri, Sahir
Ludhyanvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Rajinder Krishan, Zia Sarhadi, Asad Bhopali,
Jan Nissar Akhtar, S.H. Bihari, Prem Dhawan, Qamar Jalalabadi, Indeewar,
Shailendra, Kaifi Azmi, Bezad Lukhnavi, Naqsh Lyallpuri, Nakshab, Raja
Mehdi Ali Khan, Khumar Barabankvi, Bharat Vyas, Gulshan Sufi, P.L.
Santoshi, D.N. Madhok, Ahmad Wasi, Gulshan Bawra ...... and so many more
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This is an actual scan of Talat Mahmood's first ever
recording "Sab din ek samaan nahin tha"
for HMV in 1941. What
you see here is the original 1941 pressing of the 78 rpm record
preserved by Talat Mahmood in his personal music library ! |
TALAT
MAHMOOD
ON CONCERT TOUR
TALAT HAS HAS GONE
ABROAD SEVERAL TIMES ON ENORMOUSLY SUCCESSFUL
CONCERT TOURS. AT EVERY CONCERT HIS FANS TURNED
UP BY THE THOUSANDS, TEARY EYED, TO FINALLY GET
TO SEE THEIR IDOL. EVERYWHERE THEY WELCOMED HIM
WITH OPEN ARMS, OPEN HEARTS AND STANDING OVATIONS !
- In 1956,
Talat became the first ever Indian playback
singer to go abroad for commercial concerts. It
was for a concert tour of 6 shows to East Africa,
but his popularity and demand were so great that
he finally stayed to do 45 concerts, all houseful!
- In 1961, a
record crowd of 58,000 fans packed the Karachi
Stadium, mostly women, to listen to The King sing! EMI, Karachi, honoured Talat with a Silver
Disc, making Talat the first singer in the Indian
sub-continent to recieve a Disc.
- In 1968,
Talat landed to a hero's welcome in Trinidad for
the West Indies Concert Tour. Thousands of fans
thronged the airport. Wearing Talat Fan Club
badges, waving Talat Flags and Talat Photo's,
they lined the roads leading from the airport to
the city. An open limousine drove Talat through a
sea of his fans. The local papers headlined the
concerts at Naparima Bowl, where not even boxing
matches had witnessed such a frenzy for the
purchase of concert tickets. The extremely popular group ' West
Indies Steel Band' composed a Calypso style song" Talat
Mahmood we are proud and glad, to have a personality like you here in Trinidad
"to welcome Talat to Trinidad. This
song was played over and over on the radio, at the airport and in all
music shops in West Indies to welcome Talat to their country! Talat's concerts at
Skinner Park and Jean Pierre Complex are still
talked of even today !
- In '69,
'73, '82, '83, '87, '90, '91, Talat toured USA
and Canada, packing such prestigious venues as
Madison Square Garden and others:
*** Talat's
popularity prompted famous New York television
host Joe Franklin to invite Talat on his hugely
popular programme "The Joe Franklin
Show" watched by over 25 million Americans.
*** New York's 'Daily News', then
America's third largest selling newspaper of 3 million copies a day, sponsored
Talat's New York concert.
*** A ballet
based entirely on Talat's songs, was created by
The Joel Jay Fisher Ballet Company in New York.
*** Cleveland's
Mayor, George V. Voinovich, on behalf of his city,
honoured Talat with a Citation for his
incomparable and outstanding contribution to
music.
*** Mayor
Anthony J. Guinta , on behalf of the Euclid
Community presented a similar honour to Talat.
- In 1979,
Talat performed at the world renowned Royal
Albert Hall, London, selling out all tickets 2
weeks before the concert date ! Talat was the
second Indian playback singer after Lata Mangeshkar to be given
permission to perform at this historical venue.
- In 1984,
the gigantic Al Nasr Leisureland, Dubai, was host to The
Talat Mahmood Show, where thousands of Talat's
fans were thrilled to see him perform. The show
was sponsored by Cathy Pacific Airlines, who
headlined Talat as "the greatest name in
Indian music history"!
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Over the years, Talat has also toured Holland,
Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Muscat, Afghanistan,
Mauritius and Saudi Arabia, where the Indian
Embassy acquired special permission to host a
sell-out concert by the King of Ghazals!
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Talat has always obliged the Armed Forces of
India by performing free of charge for them. He
has even traveled to the Nathula Pass in
Himalaya, the highest and most dangerous Pass in
the world, to sing for the Jawans! He has
performed innumerable shows for charitable causes
and was always ready to help the needy. He was a
regular donor to several charitable institutions,
but always very anonymously, never making a show
of it.
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click photos to enlarge
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(1) Mayor Anthony
J. Guinta's honour for Talat
(2) Mayor George V. Voinovich's honour for Talat
(3) Daily News of New York sponsors Talat Show
(4) The Joe Franklin Show's invitation letter to Talat
(5) The Begum Akhtar Award for Talat |
TALAT'S
FAN FOLLOWING STRADDLES
THE GLOBE ! |
TALAT MAHMOOD
SHOW - WEST INDIES
Talat Mahmood and his band of trusty
musicians get ready to storm the West Indies!
West
Indies police escort Talat through a sea of his fans!
An open limousine
drove Talat through a sea of his cheering fans in West Indies
In 1968,
Talat landed to a hero's welcome in Trinidad for his West Indies Concert Tour.
Thousands of fans
thronged the airport. Wearing Talat Fan Club
badges, waving Talat Flags and Talat Photo's,
they lined the roads leading from the airport to
the city. An open limousine drove Talat through a
sea of his fans. The local papers headlined the
concerts at Naparima Bowl, where not even boxing
matches had witnessed such a frenzy for the
purchase of concert tickets. The extremely popular group 'West
Indies Steel Band' composed a Calypso style song "Talat
Mahmood we are proud and glad, to have a personality like you here in
Trinidad" to welcome Talat to Trinidad. This
song was played over and over on the radio, at the airport and in all
music shops in West Indies to
welcome Talat to their country! Talat's concerts at
Skinner Park and Jean Pierre Complex are still
talked of even today!
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click on letter to
enlarge
The Indian High
Commissioner to West Indies' letter
to Talat Mahmood congratulating him on the
"warm reception" accorded to him by the West Indians |
BALROOP's RECORD STORE IN WEST INDIES
IS HONOURED TO HAVE THE
SINGING STAR & 'KING OF GHAZALS' TALAT MAHMOOD DROP IN TO MEET
FANS AT THE POPULAR MUSIC STORE!
DOWNLOAD / LISTEN
TO CALYPSO WELCOME SONG BELOW:
West Indies Steel Band's Calypso Song To Honour Talat Mahmood
On His Concert Tour Of West Indies
CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH THE VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CqNJnIfr0
45 HOUSEFUL SHOWS IN EAST AFRICA!!!
Taxi driver NANDI DUGGAL: "I was so down and out that I did not know
where my next meal
was going to come from" - DUGGAL's "destiny changed"
after a chance meeting with actor
and singer called TALAT MAHMOOD!!!
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Thousands of fans throng Plaisance
Airport,
Mauritius, waiting patiently
for the arrival
of
mega-star
Talat Mahmood
!
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Talat waves to
waiting fans at Nairobi
airport during
East Africa Concert
Tour
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Talat's
popularity in USA prompted famous
New York television
host Joe Franklin to invite Talat on his hugely
popular programme "The Joe Franklin
Show" watched by over 25 million Americans.
He introduced
Talat to American audiences as "The Frank Sinatra Of India
!"
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In
Universal Studios, (Hollywood, USA) Talat Mahmood was interviewed
"Live on TV" by famous star Bob
Hastings - the first Indian playback singer ever to
have this honour !
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In 1979,
Talat performed at the world renowned Royal
Albert Hall, London, selling out all tickets
2
weeks before the concert date. Talat was the
second playback singer after Lata Mangeshkar to be permitted to perform at this historical venue. Here
Talat signs autographs for his ardent and ever-loving fans
after his hugely successful concert.
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In 1961, a
record crowd of 58,000 fans packed the Karachi
Stadium, mostly women, to listen to
The King sing !
EMI, Karachi, honoured Talat with a Silver
Disc, making Talat the first singer in the Indian
sub-continent to recieve a Silver Disc.
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Talat
at BBC TV Studio, UK
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Fans
mobbing Talat Mahmood wherever he goes !
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