S. Janaki

[Sureshs65]

Dinesh,

I think what is being referred with regards to Vani Jayaraman is her sojourn in Bombay. She became very famous through the Vasant Desai song 'Bole Re Papihara', from the movie Guddi. It was monstrously popular in those days. It was alleged that Lata Mangeshkar had played politics to ensure Vani Jayaram did not succeed in Hindi after that. One doesn't know what exactly transpired but this is what the media says.

Coming back to the Janaki interview, I wish they had time to cover some songs of Shyam and couple of songs of MSV which Janakiamma had sung. I did miss, 'Mareechike' (Shyam), 'Aa Nimishatinthe' (MSV). Well, when you get something good, you tend to get greedy

To those who haven't been there before, there is an excellent set of articles at dhool.com by Saravanan which gives a detailed account of S.Janaki's contribution to Malayalam film music. I got introduced to many songs of S.Janaki through these articles.

S.Suresh