Mandakini: From waterfalls to musical waves

(NOTE: This article was published in the INDIA TODAY edition dated February 10, 2006)

February 28, 1987: After being draped in thin saris and pushed under several waterfalls, Mandakini has at last got the chance to show the real stuff she is made of. The sullenly silent siren—who clamped a ban on the press for the constant dressing down it gave her—is now making waves of another kind. She has sung her heart out in a freshly released album called ‘Dancing City’ composed by—who else?—Bappi Lahiri, the music director who has taken it as his special mission in life to squeeze music out of the stars. “I belong to the world of music,” said Lahiri, and going by the reports, it seems Mandakini does too. It should give Raj Kapoor’s hazel-eyed heroine the chance to show she can perform—even when she’s not under a waterfall.

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