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When a young Shamshad first sang at a Lahore concert, she had to be picked up so that she could reach the mike. A promise, that meant that her first photographs could only be clicked after a lot of persuasion in the 70s, though her voice was already well known. A promise that she would never face the camera helped her in getting their approval to record.
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"Where was the film industry which calls itself a big family and rallies around the rich and powerful, when she was suffering and was all but forgotten?" she asked.īorn in Amritsar, on April 14, 1919, this movie buff was such an ardent fan of KL Saigal that she by her own admission in an AIR interview in the 80s, admitted watching Devdas 14 times! Despite her deep desire to be an actor, she found formidable opposition from her conservative parents. "Though her songs are on everybody's lips she lived and died unsung," lamented a saddened family friend.
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Advanced age added to her health complications and she breathed her last on Tuesday night."įor someone whose songs are chartbuster remixes, to which generation Y grooves, the funeral in the early hours of Wednesday was a very simple affair with only a handful attendees. Her daughter Usha Ratra, 71 told DNA, "She'd been unwell and was admitted in hospital for the past few months. Barely 10 days after her 94th birthday, Bollywood's first playback singer breathed her last after a prolonged battle with ill-health and complications at a Powai hospital in Mumbai.