My review will follow the track listing as they appear on the Double LP set, these are the tracks: No.īhupinder Singh, Mahendra Kapoor & Chorus I hope the music companies out there are listening, and will provide future generations at-least with the integrity of the efforts of the Razia Sultan team. Why would they release such a botched up compilation of this soundtrack? Why would they remove the essence of purity of the tracks by shortening the tracks? This soundtrack still deserves a stand-alone CD release that contains all these tracks in its original form. When i played this soundtrack i was astounded at what HMV had done with the CD release. I was lucky enough to get a mint unopened copy over the Internet about 9 years back. This is what happened to me when i initially heard the songs on the CD, i loved the tracks, but it was only until i realised that the film had many more songs that i started out my quest to procure the double LP set. Every song in this album was botched and shortened, stanza’s missing and even to the extent of fading out the longer songs towards the end. The CD was released as a two-in-one film compilation of Pakeezah and Razia Sultan. Unfortunately for music lovers later on, who had discovered Razia Sultan’s music at a later stage the subsequent CD release was a mess of note. For the purposes of this review i have used this double LP set to fully realise the impact of this soundtrack on Filmdom for years to come. Khayyam, the music composer remained dedicated to Kamal Amrohi’s vision and provided a beauty of a soundtrack.įortunately for us music lovers, this soundtrack was released by HMV as a double LP volume which included all 12 tracks of this magnum soundtrack. Mishra, the film’s producer, “is a friend”. In fact, says Amrohi, he compromised his search for perfection in Razia Sultan because A.K. “There is so much exaggeration that audiences feel let down,” he said, ruefully admitting that the much-talked-of banquet scene, in fact, lasted under a minute and there was no question of producers footing the bill for mountains of food for less than a dozen people in the shot. Amrohi, the 65-year-old director who was driven for a decade by the vision of Razia Sultan, was desperately trying to retrieve the situation.
Last week they were proving embarrassing even for the film maker.
#STORY OF RAZIA SULTAN MOVIE MOVIE#
Short of the king-size pearls flung by Razia for her handmaidens in the pool, stories about the making of the movie outstripped the legend of the queen herself. It was claimed, for example, that for a banquet scene 45 lambs, 251 fish, 455 chickens and one and a half tonnes of biryani were prepared so that the actors would be stimulated by the aroma of real food.įake props not being good enough, a sulphur-crested cochatoo had to be specially imported from Australia.
Distributors were said to have paid anywhere between Rs 92 lakh and Rs 1 crore per territory.Īnd publicists were working round the clock putting out tall tales about Amrohi’s mad quest for creating perfection. Spectacular sets, fabulous battle scenes, glittering costumes and a smashing musical score – everything, in fact, associated with the highly-charged and eccentric Amrohi who created the legendary Pakeezah.Such being the background, little wonder that everyone got carried away. Beside offering dream girl Hema Malini in the role of a lifetime – as the 13th century queen of the Slave dynasty – Razia Sultan, it seemed, had everything going for it. Seven years in the making, the film had seemed to be of the stuff of which cinematic legends and box-office blockbusters are made. Within days of its release, Kamal Amrohi’s epic Razia Sultan, said to be the most expensive movie to come out of the Bombay industry (estimates range from Rs 4 crore to Rs 10 crore), had torpedoed at the box-office sending shockwaves of despair through the national film producer-distributor network.
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