P.SUSHEELA 

The song "Pattu Padi Urakkam njaan" rendered by P.Susheela in 1960 with such great eloquence and emotion that it enthralled the people from the "God's own country" and has given her a permanent place in their hearts.

She sang this lullaby with such great feeling that it had the freshness of a Zephyr, the coolness of the moonlight and warmth and affection poured into it.

Till Date, this is one of the songs that have remained the all time favorite among the keralites. Abhayadev’s lyrics & V.dakshinamoorthy’s composition and P.susheela’s rendition made this song immortal.

              That was a good turning point in her musical career. She sang songs for many music composers. Susheela has sung most of the songs in the movie "Bhaarya". The song where she compares a kerala girl to a river, she has transformed herself into a typical kerala girl who moves around like a river. Wow!! . What a splendid performance by her? The credits for the popularity of the song can be attributed to Devarjan who has composed great music, to vayalar who has written great Lyrics and the most importantly to the voices of AM Raja and P.Susheela. She has also sung a song about "Adam and Eve" for a stage play in the same movie “Adham idha ninakku njan tharunnu”.

                Another song “Chandana pallakkil veedu Kaanan vanna" in the movie "PalattuKOman" a Vadakkan style song for which the music was composed by MS Baburaj and lyrics written by P. Baskaran where she was alike a true princess.

In the movie "Ayeesha", she has sung a song "poomagalaane hO" under the composition of R K Sekhar where she has portrayed a muslim girl from Malapuram

with great such great eloquence. One more soft love duet of same style "Muthane ende Muthane" for the same movie. She has also sung a  song  for the movie Subaida, "Lailahaah, Illalah", where she emotes a young child who is away from her mother.

            She has also sung a song "Kaadu kulirunu" for the movie "Nellu" under the musical Composition of Salil Chaudary where she is blending her voice with the nature.

She has also sung few songs under the composition of Naushad. In a country where communal riots and religion disputes seems to be ruling high,  a song revering a Hindu God where a Muslim has penned the lyrics and a muslim, Naushad has composed music and a Christian, Jesudas  given the sound tracks.   But there is also one more commendable instance which would put all the religious fanatics to shame where despite being a telugu, She has sung a song in Sanskrit, "Janaki Jane Rama" for which a North Indian Has composed the music and a keralaite has penned the lyrics. And her efforts were lauded by the magazene which carried the lines that “Susheela had brought  Ramarajya to earth”.

            There was one person who asked jesus how to pray?. And whatever Jesus told his Disciple was written down song "Aakshsangalil Irikkum" by vayalar. Susheela sang that song so beautifully imbibing so much of devotion in her voice that People were spell bound. These are just small examples of what Susheela has done. 

She has sung about all the emotions and phases of a woman's life, with so much of feeling in her voice.  She has been conferred with so many titles

For her lovely voice. "Priyathama", "Rajashilpi", "Ezhu Sundara Rathirikal", "manathe mazhamukil ", "kaatil Ilam kaatil", "paamaram palungu kondu", "ponthenaruvi", "nalacharithrathile", poovukalkku punyakalam", "pathivayi pournami thorum", “pancha thandram kadhayile", "kannu neer muthumay", "neeyum vidhavayo", "chethi mantharam", "bharatham ennal" are some of the feathers in her cap. Her songs had covered all the aspects of a keralite's life which she has sung by acquiring the kerala culture.

            How could a telugu girl like her imbibe the nuances of other languages,pronounce the words clearly, and sing the songs in such an articulate and refined manner That it was absolutely flawless.  An interviewer asked Susheela how could she get the utterances right in her songs with perfect phonetics, for which she replied that being a telugu she did struggle to get the pronounciation correct for some of the sounds that were unique to malayalam. In her process of being rhetoric, she practised so hard that her lips were bleeding. But then she went on and on until she got the pronunciation she wanted. The interviewer was amazed by her preseverance and wondered, “such a big sacrifice to bring the nuances of the language and the spirit in the song “.

                   She had great underlying expressions, which were just right, no more and no less. When she sings romantically or a cradles somebody to sleep, her voice becomes so light that it just melts off.  In a song based on a joyous mood, Her high-spiritedness is evident from Her exuberant and ebullient voice. For the songs Sung with melancholy themes, u can hear her cry out from her heart, the feelings Coming from the pit of her stomach. Even In songs which expresses her anger or Bravery, you can hear the dignity in her voice. Such was her voice control.

            Madhuri, who likes to call herself as Susheela's ardent fan, describes, Devarajan master was a hard taskmaster, Who would never give up until he gets the right expression and right pronunciation. P.Susheela was the main female playback singer for G.Devarjan.

            She has sung for many great composers like G.Devarajan, V.dakshinamoorhy, MS.baburaj, MB Srinivasan, vedpal varma, R.k.Sekhar, salil choudry, naushad, msv, pughazendi, sudharsanam, ummar, k.raghavan, jaya vijaya, reghunath, shyam, raveendran, KJ joy, Johnson, parur devarajan, Bro.lakshmanan and also yesudas.

Though she has sung songs written by Vayalar, P.baskaran, abhyadev, mankombu, sreekumaran thambi, onv kurup Yousufali kecheri, balamurali, thirunaiyanar kurichi, bichu thirumala,  Thikkurissi, sasikala mennon, kanname j, suguthakumari, the best malayalam songs have come from the trio G.Devarajan, vayalar, Susheela. She has sung her maximum songs for Devarajaan where vayalar has written the lyrics.

                  Recently, she rendered a song for the movie “ammakkiLikkoodu” under Raveendran’s composition. Song is “hrudaya geethamai kELku njangal aa snEha gAna thAra”.

          She has recognized by the  keralites with the kerala state awards and “kamukara award” .