Jamuna Rani:

A Perennial Favourite

POPULAR Indian playback singer Jamunarani currently in Sri Lanka to attend the Sarasaviya Film awards night is no stranger to the local film scene having rendered her voice to many a heroine in the sinhala cinema of a by gone era.

Films which featured her playback songs included Maathlang, Varadha Kagedha, Vanamohini, Siraya and the box office buster Sedalung in the 1956.

Her songs such as Prema Gange, Premalokaya Nivi Giya (Sujatha) and Pem Kekuklu Pipi (Sedasulang) are still favourites among the older folk and even the younger ones.

Jamunarani's debut as a playback singer was for the Teligu Movie Thayagya in 1945 when she was hardly seven years. The song was picturised on a child artiste.

He moved to big time came when she rendered her voice to the heroine in the Tamil film Valayapathy (1952). Her song Asayum En, Nesamum in the film Gulebakavali (1955) which starred M.G. Ramachandran became a big hit .

Her voice first rang on the Sinhala silver screen in the film Sujatha in 1953.

Jamunarani has sung over 6,000 songs in various languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Sinhalese.

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