न लता मंगेश्कर, न गीता दत्त, ये थी बॉलीवुड की पहली फीमेल सिंगर, गाने के लिए छुपाया नाम, म्यूजिक भी करती थीं कंपोज

Mumbai. There have been more than one singer in the film industry. The female singer is also burning. Lata Mangeshkar was considered the top singer of India. Nobody has been able to replace them even today. Along with Lata Mangeshkar, many female singers like Shamshad Begum, Chitra Asha Bhosle, Noor Jahan, Alka Yagnik, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan gained a lot of popularity. People still have their names on the tongue of people. But very few people know about Bollywood’s early female singer.

Born in a Parsi family in the year 1912, the real name of Saraswati Devi was Khurshid Mahanchersher Minocher Homeji. She was a trendy classical singer. Saraswati Devi was a famous musician. He also gave excellent music in many films of Bombay Talkies in the 30 and 40s. Career started in 1935 with ‘Jawani Ki Hawa’. After this, he composed music of many films like ‘untouchable Kanya’, ‘Kangan’, ‘Bandhan’ and ‘Jhula’.

Pankaj Raga has written an article about his journey in his book ‘Till Ki Yatra’. However, Jaddanbai is also mentioned in it. It is said that she first gave music in the film but she was limited to just a few films. At the same time, Saraswati Devi gave music for almost a decade. It is also a very interesting thing that this Hunarmand, who gave music of one hit films one after the other, had to work by hiding his name. To work in films, he named his name Saraswati so that it would not be known in his family. That era was something in which women of the name were allowed to show skills and that too when the orthodox Parsi family was a woman, the difficulties were uncountable.

His journey started as a music director with Himanshu Rai, owner of Bombay Talkies. Himanshu heard him singing at an event. Himanshu liked her voice and offered her to join Talkies as a musician immediately. First she felt how she would be able to work in the film industry; He had never done this before, so he hesitated a little, but later he accepted it.

Saraswati Devi collided with singers like KL Sehgal and Kanan Devi