Suman Kalyanpur, the gentle voice of Hindi cinema, passes away

Suanshu Khurana

Suman Kalyanpur, the gentle voice of Hindi cinema, passes away

Suman Kalyanpur death: She was 89 and had been unwell for a little over a month. She will be cremated at 2 pm in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz on Monday.

singer Suman Kalyanpur dies at 89

There may be no better endorsement for a woman playback singer than being mistaken for Lata Mangeshkar. There possibly cannot be a longer shadow to live under either. For most of her career, playback singer Suman Kalyanpur lugged both.

Whether it was the playful ‘Na na karte pyar’ (Jab Jab Phool Khile, 1965), the longing in ‘Ajhun na aaye baalma‘ (Saanjh aur Savera, 1964), the soft romance of ‘Na tum humein jaano’ (Baat ek Raat ki, 1962) or the exuberance of the utterly delightful ‘Aaj kal tere mere pyar ke charche’ (Brahmachari, 1968), Kalyanpur came to be known as a singer without any excess and with a clear and clean tone. On May 31, Kalyanpur passed away at her residence in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala. She was 89 and had been unwell for a little over a month. She will be cremated at 2 pm in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz on Monday.