Unfortunately they were not given opportunities to sing in Thamizh movies. This was not due to any shortcoming on their part. When I was growing up on a diet of films and filmsongs singers like Ghantasala, Leela, AM Rajah, Jikki, Chidambaram Jeyaraman, ML Vasanthakumari, Tiruchi Loganathan etc were on the decline in Thamizh films.
She would often say that both voices were made for each other. Her favourite Thamizh filmsong “jodi” was the Ghantasala - Leela duo.
She was a household name in the fifties and early sixties. Her Thamizh renditions may number around thousand. Leela has sung about 5000 film songs in languages such as Thamizh, Malayalam, Telungu, Kannadam and even Sinhala. She was the uncrowned queen of song in the realm of Thamizh films during the fifties. The present generation of Thamizh filmsong fans may have never heard her or heard of her. She was in a coma at the time of death and so passed away peacefully and painlessly. Complications set in when she got pneumonia.Being an asthma patient her condition deteriorated. Diagnosis after admission revealed a blood clot in her brain.Surgery was performed. She had fallen in the bathroom at her house in Nandambakkam Defence colony, shared for decades, with her sister and family. The 71 year old South Indian songbird was lying in a hospital bed of Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre for nearly a month. Leela passed away around midnight on Sunday October 30th in Chennai. Porayathu Leela known to millions of rasikas as P.
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