Old Telugu movie songs collection center at your doorstep

A treasure trove of Telugu songs

“Janaranjani”, an audio library named after the popular Telugu songs programme on All India Radio, is all set to offer full volumes of 3,500 old hit songs divided into 72 volumes.

Floated by music lover Goli Lakshmi Prabhakar alias Saibabu, the library has a collection of songs starting from 1931 when the Telugu film industry was in its nascent stage to 2010.

All the film songs were arranged in 72 volumes with 50 songs in each volume.

The “Janaranjani” — audio library grabbed everyone’s attention in just two years after an article was published in The Hindu in 2011 and Mr. Saibabu received calls from different parts of the World.

“Some Telugu people from US, New Zealand and Europe came to Rajahmundry for recording songs of their taste,” he says. Saibabu spends most of his time with vintage gramophone records and thousands of cassettes and compact discs in Janaranjani library. In his library, one can find a handbook ‘Janaranjani’ Part-3 ‘Ragam, Tanam and Pallavi'.

Golden hits

“I divided the period of 1931 to 2010 into three parts and started printing the data of Telugu film songs. First, I brought out the third part starting from 1989 to 2005,” says Mr. Saibabu. The book contains the title of the film, year, banner, producer, director, music director, hero-heroine, songs, lyric writer and playback singers. Except dubbed films, all films released in a year are recorded in the book and the same were collected in the shape of gramophone record or cassette or CD.

Website soon

Mr. Saibabu is all set to start a website by name Janaranjani in which he will provide all the details of 3,500 songs.

“Any one can walk into my library and order for collection of songs of their choice and taste. I will give it in a pen drive or CD format with 48 RPM (which means clarity of song and music with original track),” Mr. Saibabu said.

Contact 9390158999

Music lovers can contact him on mobile no. 9390158999 for getting copy of books in which he published all the details of 3,500 songs with lyric writer, film title, year of release, actors and first line of the song.