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The Hindu
The Hindu
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S B Vijaya Mary

Lata Mangeshkar’s Telugu song ‘Nidurapora Thammuda’ in ‘Santhanam’ (1955) is one of the best lullabies in Telugu cinema

Akkineni Nageswara Rao greets Lata Mangeshkar at the Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao Award presentation function, in Hyderabad on February 01, 2010. (Source: The Hindu)

 

The soulful song from the 1955 film Santhanam set a trend of sorts for two reasons after its release; one, the reigning playback star of Bollywood, Lata Mangeshkar rendered it with a heartfelt emotion that would have been possible only for a native singer and two, a lullaby that played three times in the movie depicting the sibling bond.

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