Growing up, till certain age I didn’t pay attention to playback singers. Rather I believed the actors sang the songs. Thanks to Puthiya Varpugal which made me realize there is something called dubbing voice and playback singers. Only then I realized Pongum Kagalosai one of my favorite songs from Meenava Nanban (1977) is sung by Vani Jayaram. From then onwards, I started paying attention to the singers. We had many