A tribute to the pioneering musician whoThat Parsi girl, sarodist Zarin Sharma broke the glass ceiling in the Bollywood music studios passed away on 19/12 /14 The Bombay film orchestras of the golden age from the 1950s to the 1970s were a male bastion. Sarod maestro Zarine Sharma (neé Daruwalla), who passed away on 19/12 was one of the rare women who broke the sonic barrier. Identified as a child prodigy, she had her first brush with the film studios in the late ‘50s when she played for the title music for Maasoom (released in 1960), a film that many remember for the ever-popular tune Naani Teri Morni Reminiscing about that moment, she said, “When I began to play, all the musicians who were standing around were very surprised. Because I was a lady, no? And lady players of sarod were very, very rare. And also there were very few ladies in the film line, so they all were astonished. It seemed to me as if they’d never seen a sarod before. And people came to know about me because here I was – I was just this 18-year-old Parsi girl playing in films. But mostly they didn’t know my name. I was ‘that Parsi girl’.” Below---- A track from Kinara (1977) featuring Sharma.
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