Lathika
Lathika (Malayalam: ലതിക) is an Indian playback vocalist whose voice held influence over the music graphs in the last part of the 1980s-mid 1990s in the Malayalam entertainment world. She has loaned her voice predominantly for Malayalam and Tamil film tunes for north of 300 movies. A portion of her hit tunes of that time are ‘Kathodu Kathoram… ‘ and ‘Devadoothar Padi… ‘(Kathodu Kathoram), ‘Crap Venam Pooppada Venam…’ (Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam), and ‘Tharum Thalirum…’ (Chilambu).
Career
Lathika appeared at 16 years old with the scene “Pushpathalpathin..” made by Kannur Rajan for I. V. Sasi’s ‘Abhinandam’ (1976). She sang the two part harmony with K. J. According to yesudas, who, she, has forever been her tutor. Throughout the long term Lathika likewise has had the “favorable luck” to sing in the presentation movies of the absolute most popular arrangers in Malayalam including Ravindran Master (‘Choola’), Ouseppachan (‘Kathodu Kathoram’) and S.P. Venkatesh (‘Rajavinte Makan’). Despite the fact that Lathika, had prior sung playback for various tunes and was a star on the ganamela circuit in and around Kollam and Tamil Nadu, it was only after she was acquainted with Bharathan that she started to be seen in the music business.
It was music chief Raveendran, who acquainted her with movie chief Bharathan. She sang the tune ‘Varnangal Gandhangal…’ in his ‘Chamaram’ (1980), for which Raveendran Master created this one tune [the others were formed by M. G. Radhakrishnan. Then her turn came for the music creation of ‘Ithiri Poove Chuvanna Poove’ (1984) when they required a female craftsman to murmur a pallavi. In those days S. Janaki was the prevailing tune sovereign and such a senior craftsman couldn’t be gotten exclusively to murmur a couple of lines. That is when Raveendran proposed her name. She was required a tryout and Bharathan enjoyed her voice such a lot of that he gave her the tune ‘Pon Pularoli… ‘ to sing. From that time onwards, Bharathan guaranteed that Lathika got to sing in practically the entirety of his movies, for example, ‘Dum Dum Dhundhubinatham… ‘ (Vaishali) and ‘Hridayaraga… ‘ (Amaram), to give some examples. Her last melody for him was ‘Othiri Mohangal… ‘ in Vengalam. Nilaavinte poomgavil… from the film ‘Sreekrishna Parunthu’ is one of her most well known tune. Her other outstanding tunes incorporate ‘Poovulla Meda Kaanan….’ from the film ‘Pandu pandoru rajakumari’ alongside G. Venugopal, Aathma Sugandham from the film ‘Bhadrachitta’ and so on.
All through her profession, Lathika has had a few melodies credited to different vocalists, particularly K.S. Chitra, by well known media and people. This has been credited to slight similitudes between her melodies and Chithra’s. The artist has forever been uncomplaining about the matter. As of August 2016, her most recent version for a film is for a 2016 Malayalam film Guppy in which she sang the tune “Athiraliyum karakaviyum” alongside Vijay Yesudas.
Present life
Currently she is serving as lecturer in music at the Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram. She has been promoted as Asst. Professor and serving the same college.
