J. Sushila
J. Sushila is an actress, known for Draupadi (1944), Alam Ara (1931) and Kalidas (1931).
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Actress (12 credits)
1944
Draupadi
(as Sushila Rani)
1940
Sandesha
1940
Yaad Rahe
1937
Savitri
(as Sushila)
1937
Qazzak Ki Ladki
1933
Hatimtai
1932
Bulbule Baghdad
1932
Shashi Punhu
1931
Farebi Jaal
1931
Khuda Ki Shaan
(as Sushila)
1931
Kalidas
1931
Alam Ara
(as Sushila)
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1944 Draupadi
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1944 Draupadi
Draupadi (1944)
| Film Name | Draupadi |
| Release Date | 1 Jan 1944 |
| Genre | Fantasy |
Crew
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Baburao Patel | Director |
Cast
| Actor Name | Character Name | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Abraham | |||||||
| K.N. Singh | |||||||
| Pratima Devi | |||||||
| Dixit | |||||||
| J. Sushila | (as Sushila Rani) | ||||||
| Baburao Pendharkar | |||||||
| Chandra Mohan | |||||||
| Badri Prasad | |||||||
Mazhar KhanSushila Rani Patel
The nonagenarian singer is keenly aware of her audience
   
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If Sushila Rani Patel had not met Baburao Patel, the editor of Filmindia
magazine in Mumbai in 1942, she might not have cancelled a teaching
assignment in Udaipur. If she had not cancelled her trip to Udaipur,
Baburao Patel – her future husband – might not have helped her get a
recording contract with HMV the same week. If her HMV recordings had not
been so successful, she might not have become the noted classical
singer that she is today.
The 93-year-old[BORN 1918]
vocalist has won 34 awards so far, including a Dadasaheb Phalke Academy
award, a Sangeet Natak Akademi award and a Maharashtra Rajya Sanskritik
Puraskar. As she has grown older, her concert performances have become
much less frequent. However, this fortnight, audiences will have the
opportunity to listen to Patel when she takes the stage at an event
organised by the music circle Swar Alaap. She will collect her
thirty-fifth award, the Swar Alaap award, at the concert which will also
feature a conversation with her.
For someone
of her age, Patel’s abilities are remarkable. Although her vocal cords
aren’t what they used to be, she still has the lung capacity to sing a
minute-long taan pattern spanning three octaves without a single gasp.
“I took five years to perfect this,” said Patel. “But I have to continue
training every day otherwise I will lose it.”
Patel’s
skill comes from decades of practice under various gurus, including
Mogubai Kurdikar, with whom she trained for 20 years. “For the first six
or seven years, she wouldn’t let me sing in public,” said Patel. “I
could have concerts at home and for friends but she said, ‘When I give
the green signal, only then you are ready to sing anywhere.’” It took
about half a dozen years of practice – two hours a day, three times a
week – before Kurdikar gave her that signal.
The
singer also trained for seven years under Sundarabai Jadhav, who was
one of the most popular exponents of light-classical music in the early
part of the twentieth century. “All the songs in my film Gwalan are based on the tunes popularised by Jadhav,” said Patel, who starred in the film and also sang the songs.
There was a time when the singer was more famous for being the wife of the notoriously caustic Filmindia
editor Baburao Patel – he once compared actress Rakhee to a sweet
potato. “In those days if you were associated with Baburao Patel, you
came to be known by that association,” said film journalist Raju
Bharatan, author of a biography of Lata Mangeshkar.
“Baburao was very
proud of the fact that she was such a good classical singer,” said
Bharatan. “He knew the film industry inside out and how it functioned,
so he didn’t want her to work with other film producers.”
Unfortunately, the only two films that Baburao Patel made featuring his wife in a starring role – Gwalan and Draupadi – didn’t do well. “Gwalan was OK, but Draupadi
was a disaster,” recalled Bharatan.
That didn’t keep Patel from
pursuing music and performing at concerts. “She was always a very
forward-looking woman,” said Bharatan. “She did not believe in
ritualistic barriers, the sort which kept women from progressing in the
1940s and ’50s.”
Patel’s association with the
film world has left her with a keen awareness of the audience. “Some
classical singers take too much time to warm up,” she said. “People
don’t have that kind of patience nowadays.” Musicians must know how to
make sure that people will enjoy their music, she said, citing Hindi
film music director Naushad as an example. “He used to compose classical
tunes but they were packaged very nicely. Even today, when I sing raga
Hameer, people enjoy it because that raga has been used in Naushad’s
song ‘Madhuban Mein Radhika Nache Re’.”
In
1961, Patel and her husband founded the Shiv Sangeetanjali to encourage
classical music. She has kept the effort alive long after Baburao Patel
passed away in 1982
. Over the years, the organisation which is now part
of the Sushila Rani Baburao Patel Trust has featured emerging talents
and presented early concerts by sarod player Pradip Barot, flautist Ronu
Muzumdar, vocalist Dhanashree Pandit-Rai, flautist Nityanand Haldipur
and tabla player Sadanand Naimpalli.
Patel is also a music teacher. “As a
guru, she believes in her students so it has a Pygmalion effect,” said
Radhika Sood Nayak, who has been training with Patel for eight years.
“The fact that someone like her believes in you makes you feel that you
can do it.”
Though Patel embraces popularity
more readily than some other classical musicians, she doesn’t care much
for today’s Hindi films. “I went to see Mausam because I like
Sonam Kapoor,” said Patel. “She acts well, she’s very graceful.” But she
was disappointed because Kapoor didn’t have “that much to do”. She
misses heroes like Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar.
When she spoke about
today’s actors, her biting observations had the echo of Baburao Patel
about them. “They are dancing all the time and doing stunts,” she said.
“They’re more stunt masters than actors.”
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