Mangalore: Anuradha Paudwal to Feature in Mandd Sobhann Event
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (RD/VA) 

Mangalore, Mar 29: Mandd Sobhann's hundredth monthly theatre, Sadan Shembor at Noreen and Ronald Mendonca amphitheater, Kalaangann, Shaktinagar, here on Easter Sunday April 4 will be special with Anuradha Paudwal, Konkani singer and veteran Bollywood playback singer gracing the occasion as chief guest.  

Paudwal, a shy and introvert person hailing from a family where films and songs were a taboo, was very fond of music since her early age. She was attractive since her childhood, and the destiny, which gave her a sweet voice in place of the hoarse one when she was about five, during the period she suffered from pneumonia for 40 days, later took away her husband at a young age.  Anuradha, who accepted Lata Mangeshkar as her role model, was at the same time, critical about Mangeshkar family for their behaviour with her husband, Arun Paudwal, a music arranger working for S D Burman, a renowned music director of the time. 

Paudwal, who refused to sing for several years, took up singing because of the support of her father-in-law. Her first Hindi film rendering was the Shiv Shloka for Amitabh-Jaya starrer, ‘Abhimaan’. Apart from singing for a number of Marathi films, she worked for various music directors like Nadeem-Shravan, S D Burman, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Rajesh Roshan, Kalyanji-Anandji and Usha Khanna among others. She ruled late 80s and early 90s, mostly singing for Nadeem-Shravan and mainly playbacking songs for Madhuri. However, her greatest works in the form of devotional songs came during her long association with Gulshan Kumar of T-series. Paudwal is a rare singer with a tremendously gifted voice, high principles, and sweet manners.  

About 'Sadhan Shembor'

Sadan Shembor comprises all the Konkani hit songs that had enthralled the Konkan music-buffs in Mangalore, Mumbai and Goa, from 1900 to 2010. Both Mangalorean and Goan singers are set to entertain the music-buffs. 

Mangalore singers Adolph, Prakash, Edith, Joyce, Eric, Zeena, Meena, Sunil, Lavita, Priya, Sherin, Jean, Preema, Chandni, Clarita, Dillon and Ralph, assisted by Kenny, Elton, Sharon and Kate. Goan singers Anthony Syan, Siddanath Buyavn, Sonam Lotlekar and Akash Telgu, will present their musical performances. Roshan D’Souza Angelore will be the music director along with Sangeet Guru Joel Pereira Bejai. 

Remembering Wilfy and Book Release

A condolence meet for the recently demised Konkan Kogul Wilfy Rebimbus, will be held on the occasion.

A research book on ‘History of Konkani songs among Mangalorean Catholics, health and future’ by Nita Suzanne Rebello, which was published with grant from Mandd Sobhann Pirjent the late Thomas Castelino Konkani Research Fund, will also be released on the occasion.