[Arun Kumar]

Milind, on Aug 18 2006, 10:02 AM, said:

'Seene pe mere barq girakar chale gaye'

Suraiya
Film : Lekh, 1949

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[Arun Kumar]

A melodious duet with Mukesh:

'Kagaz Ki Meri Nao Aur Door Kinara Hai
Is Dolati Naiya Ka Ab Kaun Sahara Hai'

Film Do Dil

Music Pt Govindram

Lyrics D N Madhok

Arun Kumar

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[Shuklas]

Suraiya: the reluctant goddess

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Like many leading ladies of the past, Suraiya's entry into the world of movies was more accidental, than otherwise. In 1941, she had accompanied her uncle Zahur (then a popular actor) to Mohan Studios to see the shooting of Taj Mahal. A child was needed for a particular shot and Suraiya stepped in. The shot was a success but it did not launch her career. She went back to her studies and occasionally took part in children's programmes for All India Radio. Here she met actress Shammi and Raj Kapoor -- a relative unknown in the filmworld. The young Raj used to teasingly call her `Kallu'.
From radio, Suraiya moved on to playback singing -- Sharda, Station Master, Sanjog and Kanoon -- and in a surprising volte face one day, Suraiya found herself facing the camera. She first caught the eye of filmgoers in Bombay Talkie's Hamari Baat. Then came DRD Productions Ishara and Suraiya had a chance to act opposite old friend Raj Kapoor's father -- Prithviraj.Soon, Suraiya became synonymous with musical pictures like Phool, Samarat Chandragupta, Anmol Ghadi, 1857, Aaj Ki Raat, Dard, Dillagi, Natak, Afsar, Kajal, Vidya, Jeet, Dastan, Sanam and Char Din.

But Suraiya experienced the greatest thrill of her screen career when K L Saigal strayed onto the sets of Jayant Desai's Chandragupta, where she was rehearsing a song. He asked Desai to cast her against him in Tadbir and Suraiya finally realised one of her greatest dreams. A Saigal fan, she had longed to co-star with him -- a dream that came true again in Omar Khayam and Parwana.

Luck continued to favour this singing sensation. Suraiya was completely besotted by Hollywood's heart throb Gregory Peck -- in 1954, she had a chance to meet him. When Peck broke journey at Mumbai, on his way to Ceylon for the shooting of Purple Plain, he stopped in to meet his most beautiful fan.

But her luck did not hold out in her personal life and Suraiya faced her biggestdisappointment. She first met Dev Anand in 1948, when she was just 19 years old. They were co-starring in the film Vidya and on the second day itself cupid struck. And when he saved her from drowning during the filming of the song `Kinare Kinare Chale Jayenge', Suraiya was convinced that she had met her cosmic mate. But her Nani thought otherwise. She banned meeting, telephone calls and even talking on the sets. The entire affair was conducted in a clandestine manner with friends like Durga Khote and Kamini Kaushal going out of their way to engineer secret rendezvous. On the sets of the film Jeet, Dev Anand finally proposed to Suraiya and gave her a diamond ring worth Rs 3,000 -- a princely sum for a fledgling star. But even that memento was snatched away from her when her grandmother saw the ring and threw it away into the sea. She also burnt all of Dev Anand's letters in front of Suraiya's eyes. Her objection to the romance: Dev Anand was a Hindu. A hunt for a Muslim husband began but marriagewas not in Suraiya's fate. In 1951, Dev Anand married Kalpana Kartik -- ending one of the silver screen's greatest romances.

Today, she neither gives interviews nor makes public appearances. The walls and mirrors of Krishna Mahal flat on Marine Drive, are the only objects that set their eyes on this star of yesteryears. But she broke her self-imposed exile when she made a rare appearance at the Screen Videocon awards when Sunil Dutt presented her the Lifetime Achievement award. Radiant in a white salwar kameez she carried herself with the grace of a much younger woman.

The gentle sway of her hips spoke of her delicate style of dancing. The only thing that had remained completely unchanged was her voice. Tremulous with emotion, Suraiya's voice was choked with emotion when she took her award.

She spoke of her long association with the film world and she was deeply touched that audiences still remembered her. But when Javed Jaffery pressed her to sing or just hum -- she refused. As a star shestill remembers the meaning of letting a legend live. Heroines are captured forever on the silver screen and the public's memory must never be updated.


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http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/i...0/03051004.html

[mohd2004]

Thanks Shuklas for this nice article.

Mohd.

[Shuklas]

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[Shuklas]

"Suraiya took an oath to throw me out of her mind" - Dev Anand

By IndiaFM News Bureau, November 16, 2007 - 16:44 IST

“I was in seventh heaven. We were now engaged! I longed for her, more and more; but I did not hear from her. Our filming episodes with each other were over, and there was no way we could meet. Days turned into weeks and there was no news from her. No written note, no call, no message. I checked with Divecha, and he promised for find out. But this time he was not allowed into their house. The granny shut the door on his face, saying, 'We are not welcoming even the best of our friends for reasons we need not divulge.' But he too became inquisitive, and being a reliable information gatherer, very close to the gossiping tongues of the film industry, he soon found out that there was a severe rift in Suraiya's family, nobody taking her side on the issue of her personal emotional involvement expect her mother. If she chose to go against the wished of the family, either she would be eliminated, or the granny would kill herself. Apparently, Suraiya had wept and wept and finally yielded to the pressure mounting on her.

They prevailed upon her. She took a solemn oath to throw me completely out of her mind. Later, as an act of desperate frustration, she took the ring I sent her to the seaside, and looking at it for the last time, with all the love she had in her for me, threw it far into the sea, to sing songs about romance to the rising and falling tides.

Divecha was sad and sympathetic as he narrated all this. Then he philosophized, 'Shakespeare will be reborn to give your tragic love story immorality in another play that will beat his own Romeo and Juliet'.

My heart sank, and my whole world shattered. There was no meaning to existence without her. But than not living meant killing myself, which would be a negation of all that my inner strength stood for. Finally, I ended up crying on the shoulder of my brother Chetan, who knew the extent of my involvement with Suraiya. He consoled me and said, 'This episode will only make you stronger, more mature, to fight bigger battles later.'

I looked across to the distant horizon. The evening sun that was still aglow threw the special ray it reserved for me in my direction. It brightened my face anew. I kept looking at it, as my brother continued, 'Life teaches its own lessons at every step, chapter by chapter. This chapter is closed for you forever, and you must start a new one.'”

The above excerpts are taken from the book - Romancing with Life published by Penguin Viking

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SURAIYA -TUM MEET MERE TUM PRAN MERE

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SURAIYA -KAAM KARO BHAI KAAM