Sharmila Tagore: I Had No Idea About Lip-syncing In My Debut Movie!
Sharmila Tagore revealed that she had no idea about lip-syncing in her debut movie Kashmir Ki Kali which released in 1964 and only realised that lip-syncing was made only after a few years.
Veteran
actor
Sharmila
Tagore
recalls
she
had
no
idea
about
lip-syncing,
when
a
playback
song
was
being
played
in
her
debut
Hindi
film.
The
actor
who
started
her
career
in
Satyajit
Ray's
1959
Bengali
classic
'Apur
Sansar'
(The
World
of
Apu)
made
her
debut
in
Hindi
films
in
Shakti
Samanta's
'Kashmir
Ki
Kali'
in
1964.
"I
still
vividly
remember
when
I
was
working
in
'Kashmir
Ki
Kali',
I
had
no
idea
about
lip-syncing
the
song
'Diwana
Hua
Badal'
sung
by
Asha
Bhosle
and
the
scene
was
to
be
shot
in
the
Dal
Lake
in
Kashmir.
"So
my
first
lip-synced
song
for
a
Hindi
film
was
connected
to
Ashaji," she
said
at
an
awards
ceremony
yesterday
evening.
The
actor
handed
over
the
P
C
Chandra
Lifetime
Achievement
award
to
84-year-old
Asha
Bhosle
at
the
programme.
"Ashaji
was
the
singer
and
O
P
Nayyar
saab
the
music
composer.
Both
were
known
names
at
that
time
while
I
was
new
in
the
Hindi
film
industry
despite
having
worked
in
several
Bengali
films
with
directors
including
Satyajit
Ray,"
she
said.
The
Hindi
film
had
several
songs
and
hence
getting
familiar
with
playback
lip-syncing
was
important,
the
actor
who
subsequently
worked
in
Hindi
films
such
as
'Anupama',
An
Evening
in
Paris','Aradhana','Amar
Prem','Satyakam','Safar',
'Daag' and
'Anand
Ashram',
said.
Complimenting
Asha
Bhosle
for
her
energy,
the
actor
said,
"Ashaji
always
engages
with
people
and
I
am
bowled
by
her
spirit."
"She
is
a
versatile
singer.
At
the
age
of
84
she
looks
like
28.
Very
few
personalities
at
her
age
will
rush
to
different
places
to
attend
events
the
way
she
does.
Let
me
pray
so
that
I
have
the
energy
to
engage
with
the
audience
like
her,"
the
73-year
old
Padma
Bhushan
awardee
said.
Sharmila
Tagore
and
Lata
Mangeshkar's
contribution
to
Indian
cinema
is
immense
and
they
have
been
doing
it
constantly
for
more
than
five
decades.
Despite
many
of
them
coming
and
going,
the
due
have
stood
like
a
rock
and
are
respected
by
one
and
all.