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A beautiful photograph indeed ! Taken on stage
from behind Talat whilst he was singing,
you can see
Talat's face
(looking right) silhouetted
against the stadium lights !
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Talat and singer Geeta Dutt
photographed
in a car whilst
leaving a concert venue
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'King of Ghazals' Talat Mahmood and 'Man With The
Golden Guitar' Van Shipley enjoy the view from atop the Empire State
Building in New York
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Talat with famous Indian Army General Thimayya
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Close buddies through life !
Talat with music director
Madan Mohan
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Talat in a pensive mood - photographed for a top selling film magazine
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Radio
singer Suman Hemmadey's ( later Suman Kalyanpur ) first film song was a
duet with Talat Mahmood in "Darwaza". A rank newcomer, her career hit
the big league when Talat agreed to sing the duet with her, making the
film industry sit up and take notice of her.
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Mohd. Rafi, the film industry's most versatile singer and Talat
Mahmood, the undisputed monarch who ruled the world of ghazals !
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Talat with co-singers
Jikki and Sudha Malhotra
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Lata, producer-director J. Om Prakash
and Talat Mahmood
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Talat joins in an impromptu jig
at a party!
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A rare photo !
All the singing greats at the
start of their careers - Talat Mahmood, Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar,
Mukesh,
Geeta Dutt, GM Durrani, Meena Kapoor, Kamal Barot, Mubarak Begum and others
At the
recording of their song are (left) C Ramchander and
(right) Lata Mangeshkar and Talat Mahmood
Mega film financier
B.C.Shankar, Music director duo Anandji,
guitarist C.Laxmichand,
Talat and
Kalyanji at recording of "Sunehri Nagin"
At the recording of the superhit NIGAH E KARAM song
"Aye meri jaane ghazal'
sung by Talat Mahmood
are (from left)
lyricist Ainsh Kanwal, Talat Mahmood,
music director Jatin Shyam,
radio great Ameen Sayani and producer Liyaqatullah
Talat on right, rehearsing 'Wohi chandni hai"
for film
RISHTA with music director Korgaonkar
Lata, Naushad, Hridhaynath
Mangeshkar
& Talat at the premiere of Lata's film 'LEKIN'
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TALAT MAHMOOD WITH THE WORLD FAMOUS
'TRAVANCORE SISTERS' OF SOUTH INDIA
Taking Superstar Talat
Mahmood's autograph backstage
after his concert are none other than the famous Travancore
Sisters Ragini and Padmini (star of Raj Kapoor's "Jis Desh
Men
Ganga Behti Hai")
with their equally famous cousin Sukumari
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'THE TALAT MAHMOOD
SHOW'
ENGLAND
For Talat's first Concert Tour Of England in 1964,
in his troupe of artistes, he had taken the 'Travancore
Sisters' as the dance attraction and Johnny Walker
as the comic and compere!
In this photo
the Indian Ambassador
is welcoming Talat (left)
and his troupe of Padmini, Ragini, Lalitha
and Johnny Walker
(far right) at SCALA THEATRE, London
Lord Mayor
of London thanks Talat (sitting on right) and his
troupe
for an
excellent evening of entertainment at Scala Theatre
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The great Madan Mohan conducts and the velvet voiced Talat Mahmood
sings
in a charity fund raiser
Shankar-Jaikishan (in white on left) conducting their full orchestra and Talat Mahmood
at the
mic on right singing the song that made
history - "Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal" for film DAAG
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Some rare press
clippings shown below are from the 40's and 50's and are faded and worn
out with time. They are included here for the sake of nostalgia even
though they may not be too clear |
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A rare photo of all the singers together in the early
years of their singing careers ! Can you spot
( front
row) Zohra Jan, Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnatki, Hamida Banu, Geeta Roy
(later Geeta Dutt),
Lata Mangeshkar, Meena Kapoor,
(and standing behind) Sailesh Mukherjee,
Talat Mahmood, Dilip Dholakia, Mohd. Rafi, Shiv Dayal Batish, G.M.
Durrani,
Kishore Ganguli (later Kishore Kumar),
and Mukesh. |
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The much respected Talat (centre)
putting across a point to
an attentive Lata and Mukesh |
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Talat Mahmood with Meena Kumari, Begum Para and
Mukesh, participating
in a charity show held in aid of Bengal Refugee Relief Fund |
Moti Sagar, Talat Mahmood and Premnath are judges at the Saigal
Memorial Trophy contest |
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Talat, Lata and ace comedian Agha |
Lata Mangeshkar, Nargis, David,
Jairaj,
Talat Mahmood
and kneeling down are
Raj Kapoor and Majnu |
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Kings of the music world - and close friends too
!
Rafi, Mukesh, Talat |
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Bengal's Uttam Kumar, Mrs. Talat Mahmood,
Mrs.Uttam
Kumar and Talat
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Talat Mahmood (right) enjoys a joke with his co-artist
Abhi Bhattacharya and director Dulal Guha on the sets of "Ek Gaon
Ki Kahani" |
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Talat Mahmood with singer G.M.Durrani |
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Shobna Samarth with daughter
Nutan and Talat at the premiere
of their hit film "Sone Ki Chidiya" |
Talat Mahmood and Abhi Bhattacharya in the film
"Ek
Gaon ki Kahani" |
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At a party at their house, Talat and wife Nasreen look
after their guests music director and close family friend Madan Mohan
(left) and
singer S.D Batish |
At
the premiere of the film "Madhosh" are Meena Kumari,
producer Homi Wadia, Usha Kiron, Music director Madan Mohan
and Talat
Mahmood |
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Talat rehearses a song for music
director
C. Ramchander
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Singer C.H. Atma and Talat |
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Talat Mahmood records a song
for the film "Swami Vivekananda" for Maestro R.C. Boral
Close friends enjoying dinner at a filmland party
TALAT, SHANKAR, JAIKISHAN, VASANT DESAI, MADAN MOHAN
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