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The Background Dancer, not to be confused with the well-known actor, comedian.
In Teen Deviyan (1965) Kalpana's dance
Edu, Oscar, Unknown, Kalpana, Terence, Mehmood.
In Pagla Kahin Ka (1970) song, 'Suno Zindagi' with Guess Who?
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Whenever I point out to people that according to the 'official' website on her, she has sung most songs in the Indian film industry, even more than Asha Bhosle, some of my friends say that the information given there has problems. They point to duplicate songs, incomplete info (film year is not given) etc.
Since she has a huge output in Telugu Films, I decided to ask Dr Vutukuri who has worked with Telugu films information for decades and has written multi-volume encyclopedia on it.
Information on his books
He replied thus:
From Dr Vutukuri V S
The stats are unto the year 2000.
Susheela sang Telugu Film songs in 45 years (from 1953 to 2000).
The total number of Films is 2,096.
She sang songs of 182 Lyricists.
She sang songs for 148 Music Directors.
The total number of songs is 6,701.
The Solo songs are - 2,454.
The Duets are - 3,957.
With more than 2 Singers - 291.
Can somebody compare this info with the website to see
1. If the website indeed agrees with this.
2. And if not, has she sung even more (doubt very much) or
3. The website has exaggerated her output (by a lot, my guess).
Thanks in advance.
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original name Vijay Patil passed away yesterday. He is the Laxman, Ram was Surendre Hendre, who unfortunately passed away soon after joining the joDee (in 1975). The information and the picture is from the Facebook page of MD Soni and a comment by Pavan Jha. Thanks both.
Around mid-70s I started ignoring new films and went from cinema to cinema in Bombay to see as many old movies I could find and took notes. My wife turned out to have similar tastes. So, in Shillong, we saw mostly old movies. We did see a few new ones from recommendation from our cousins in Gauhati. One such was Tarana! Film seemed to be a remake of Dulari (1949) and we liked all the songs mainly by Shailendra and Usha! Never heard her like this. We saw the film three times mainly for the songs. When a pirated tape of Tarana came, we bought it and wore it out. Even (Professor) Jaideep (Singh, Experimental Physics, MSU) liked it and kept singing Sultana, Sultana, Sultana, all day! We may have him on tape, I will try to locate.
Believe it not, this was the first ever Silver Jubilee film in Shillong. So, we had a quiz competition in Shillong to asses who knew more about Shillong than anybody else. There were questions about History, Geography, Politics, Economy etc. of Shillong, but there was one, Which film is the first ever to have a Silver Jubilee in Shillong? Of course, I stood up, raised my hand and shouted the answer. I am not sure, but I think I won the contest.
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