Sharda - tumko sanam pukaar ke

Sharda was a playback singer in Hindi films in the 1960s and 70s. She won the Filmfare best Female Playback Singer award for the cabaret "Baat zara hai aapas ki" in Jahan pyar Miley (1970).
Sharda belonged to a conservative Brahmin family from Tamil Nadu and was inclined towards music from childhood. She got her first big break in Bollywood with the song "Titli udi in Suraj" (1966). She was promoted by Shanker of the Shanker-Jaikishen duo.
"Titli udi" turned out to be a top chartbuster in 1966. Thereafter she continued singing for Shanker in nearly all his films while he was alive. Her voice was last heard in "Kaanch ki Deewar" (1987).
She sang with most of the top singers like Mohd Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Yesudas, Mukesh and Suman Kalyanpur. She lent her voice to top leading ladies of the time like Vyjayanthimala, Saira Banu, Hema Malini, Sharmila Tagore, Mumtaz, Rajashree and even Helen. She was the first Indian female singer to cut out her own pop album in India sometime in 1968. She also performed on stage on several occasions like Filmfare Awards Functions, charity shows, naval functions, and many others.
Sharda was somehow never able to reach the top bracket of singers and she blames some of the highly successful singers of the time to have deprived her of her chances by indulging in dirty politics. She also has the distinction of being a BA graduate, a qualification that Shanker tried his level best to highlight claiming that if the heroine is a college going girl, then only Sharda can sing for her as the other female singers of the time had not been to college. This remark was not well received by others and worked against Sharda. The critics also took digs at her highly South Indian accented pronunciations and nasal intonations which were very obvious. But in spite of all that she did manage to create a certain section of the music listeners as her fans and well wishers.
Shankar tried his level best to promote Sharda as the new generation Lata in the late 60s but somehow things did not really work out. Besides Shankar she also recorded songs with Usha khanna, Dattaram, Iqbal Qureshi and a few others.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sharda
• india
• female
• greatest
• popular
• bollywood
• playback
• singers
• tumko
• sanam
• pukaar
• ke
• Diwana

[hemukumarjhansiindia]

What a lovely voice of such a good singer.The big bang policy of the Hindi film industry has only learnt how to doom someone who is so talented.Its a pity for this great voice which vanished into oblivion

[drrajbir1964]

really so many singers had been killed by lataji. great singer but as a person zero

[mailtoraj1950]

@muthubharadwaj agreed, you seem to be real music lover

[parvezdewan]

Bless you Santidessa

[muthubharadwaj]

Sharda was a classic singer. Unfotunately, none had a chance against LataJi, NOT EVEN HER OWN SISTER ASHA. If you count good singers killed by LataJi,the list is longt. Notably Suman and Sharda were such wonderful singers that a composer of Shankar's calber picked them in favor of Lata for several songs. But the LataJi pressure on the music directors was so strong that they all bowed down - with the exception of Shankar and O.P. Nayyar.

[greedhun]

First time seeing her picture.she is a wonderfull n the voice is sweet with a very strong romantic feeling.Make you feel the true world of romance

[preetisharma107]

such a sweet n innocent voice love her quality of voice :)