S. Janaki

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I have sung enough: S. Janaki

Malayalam cinema gave S. Janaki many of the finest songs of her long career. It is perhaps therefore only appropriate that she is ending her career with a song for a Malayalam film.

“I never planned that my last song would be in Malayalam; it just happened,” Janaki told The Hindu over phone from her Hyderabad home. “I had taken a decision to stop singing a few months back and then this Malayalam song came along (for the film 10 Kalpanakal ).”

She said she would no longer perform in stage shows. “My last programme was the SIIMA Awards in Singapore in July,” she said. “And the last live show I did was at Kozhikode before that.”

She said she decided to call it a day because she felt she had sung enough songs in a career that began six decades ago. “I have sung in so many different languages for so many years,” she said. “So I felt it was time to end my career.”

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