{"id":6478,"date":"2022-02-22T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2022-02-24T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:34:46","slug":"though-he-actually-never-met-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/though-he-actually-never-met-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Though He Actually Never Met Her…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sandhya Mukherjee (Pic courtesy: Collections of Sounak Gupta)<\/p><\/div>\n

No, he actually never met her. And the mention of Sandhya Mukherjee in his recently published book, Actually… I Met Them<\/em>? That\u2019s a goof-up, admits Gulzar Saab in a chat over the mobile one morning. \u201cI meant Sandhya Roy, then wife of Tanu Da \u2013 Tarun Majumdar \u2013 and inadvertently wrote Sandhya Mukherjee.\u201d The error escaped him until it was in print \u2013 as part of the celebrated poet-lyricist-writer-director\u2019s anecdotal memoir, 18 intimate word-portraits of icons of cinema and literature who have inspired him, published last October by Penguin Random House. And days after the 90-year-old \u2018Geetasri\u2019 was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata, Gulzar Saab told me, \u201cPlease convey to her my deepest regard and my best wishes for her to return to health.\u201d<\/p>\n

That, alas, was not to be. After battling for three weeks, she slipped into eternal sleep, joining the other melody queen who exited the earth on February 6. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar and Sandhya Mukherjee are names that inevitably come up when one talks music on the Indian screen \u2013 of 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. It was Anil Biswas who gave Lata a hit in Anokha Pyar<\/em> (1948) by honing her voice modulation, her pronunciation, her breath control and also gave Sandhya her first Hindi film song. With Lata, Sandhya sang the lilting Bol papihe bol re,<\/em> the song from Tarana<\/em> (1951) that has renewed currency and gained countless admirers since she breathed her last. Hardly surprising that the two melodious artistes struck a quiet friendship that endured gossip of jealousy and rivalry.<\/p>\n

Bol papihe bol re<\/em><\/strong> (Tarana<\/em>, 1951) Anil Biswas \/ DN Madhok \/ Lata Mangeshkar and Sandhya Mukherjee<\/span><\/p>\n