She sang for composers Shankar Jaikishan, Roshan, Madan Mohan, S. Kalyanpur provided playback singing for Miyan Bibi Razi (1960), Baat Ek Raat Ki (1962), Dil Ek Mandir (1963), Dil Hi To Hai (1963), Shagoon (1964), Jahan Ara (1964), Sanjh Aur Savera (1964), Noor Jehan (1967), Saathi (1968) and Pakeezah (1971). She sang for the movie, Mangu (1954), Koi Pukare Dheere Se Tujhe. A rank newcomer, her career hit the big league when Talat agreed to sing the duet with her, making the film industry sit up and take notice of her. Talat Mahmood heard Kalyanpur singing in a musical concert and was highly impressed by her singing. Suman Kalyanpur's first film song was a duet with Talat Mahmood in Darwaza (1954). This proved to be the only song she ever sang for O.P. According to Suman, she had a couple of solo lines to sing and her services were used, more, as a chorus singer in this song. In the same year (1954), Suman sang the film version of O.P.Nayyar’s hit ensemble song "Mohabbat Kar Lo Ji Bhar Lo Aji Kisne Roka Hai" with Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt for the film Aar Paar. Since ‘'Darwaza’' released first, it is generally believed to be Suman Kalyanpur's first Hindi film. Immediately after the film ‘'Mangu’', Suman sang 5 songs under the baton of composer Naushad for the film Darwaza (1954), which was produced by Ismat Chugtai and directed by Shahid Lateef. Thus, I entered Hindi cinema with the 1954 release ‘Mangu’. Nayyar replaced Mohammed Shafi and only one of my three songs, a lullaby "Koi Pukaare Dheere Se Tujhe" was retained in the film. However, due to some unknown reasons, later O.P. Sheikh Mukhtar was so impressed with my ‘'Shukrachi Chandni'’ songs, that he got me to sing 3 songs for the film ‘Mangu’. At that time, Sheikh Mukhtar was making the film Mangu whose composer was Mohammed Shafi. This was my first public performance after which I got a chance to sing for the Marathi film Shukrachi Chandni released in the year 1953. Still, I could not say 'no' to an offer to sing for the All India Radio in 1952. Her grand daughter Aaishanni Agny returned to India and opened an NGO in Mumbai in her grand mother's name.Įverybody at home had an inclination towards arts and music but public performances were strictly prohibited. She has a daughter named Charul Agni who is settled in the United States after marriage.
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He accompanied her for every recording session after her marriage. Suman Hemmady married a Mumbai-based businessman Ramanand Kalyanpur in the 1958 and thus, became Suman Kalyanpur from Suman Hemmady. Suman's younger sister Shyama Hemmady was also a singer.
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According to Suman, initially singing was just hobby to her but gradually her interest in music increased and she started learning it professionally from Ustad Khan, Abdul Rehman Khan and Guruji Master Navrang. Simultaneously, she started learning classical vocal from Pune's Prabhat Films' music director and a close family friend, Pandit Keshav Rao Bhole. School of Arts for further studies in painting. Columba High School, she got admission in the prestigious Sir J. After completing schooling from Mumbai’s famed St. Suman had always been interested in painting and music. In 1943, her family moved to Mumbai, where she received her musical training. Apart from father and mother Seeta Hemmady, there were 5 daughters and one son in the family with Suman being the eldest among her siblings. He served on a top post in the Central Bank of India and was posted to Dhaka (now Bangladesh) for a very long period.
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Hemmady is a village in Kundapur Taluk of Udupi District, Karnataka. Suman Kalyanpur's father Shankar Rao Hemadi hailed from a Saraswat Brahmin family belonging to Mangalore, Karnataka. Suman Kalyanpur was born as Suman Hemmady on 28 January 1937 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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She recorded songs for movies in several languages besides Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bengali, Odia and Punjabi. She is considered among the popular singers of her prime time and golden era of Hindi film music, along with Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh, Geeta Dutt, Asha Bhosle, Hemant Kumar, Talat Mahmood, Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor and Shamshad Begum. Her voice was often mistaken to be that of Lata Mangeshkar. Suman Kalyanpur's career started in 1954 and was very popular singer in the 1960s and 1970s. One of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Suman Kalyanpur (born Suman Hemmady 28 January 1937) is an Indian playback singer.