As a child, her name was familiar in our house, like in every other home. Her soft voice, her songs has been heard over and over again through the transistors, in cinemas and her live performances that we watched on the television. We find ourselves fortunate having watched her interviews on the television and having watched her singing live on the television. I am one amongst the millions fans of Lata Ji. I remember having seated on the verandah of our house when I was a child and I use to listen to the songs played in the cinema hall during the running of the movie Shor. One such song thats my all time favourite "Ek pyar ka nagma" which I used to listen intensely and it kept looping in my head.
"Ek Pyar ka nagma hai" casting Manoj Kumar and Nanda and the song sung by Lata Mangeskar and Mukesh. Movie 'Shor'
Now the list of songs will go on and on.... just to note down a few here
Tere bina zindegi se koi, from Aandhi
Kahin door jab din dhal jaye from Anand
Piya Bina Piya Bina ( Abhimaan)
Sun re pawan, pawan pur (Anurag)
Naam ghum jayega (Kinara)
O Basanti (Jis desh mein Ganga Beheti hai)
Kahin deep jale kahin dil (Bees saal baad)
E Malik tere ( Do Aankhen Barah Haath).......the list goes on
In one of her interview she had said "Given a chance to be born again, she would not like to be born as Lata Mangeshkar because she only knows what it is like to be born as Lata Mangeshkar and what all problems and difficulties that she had to face.
She always said her voice was gift of God and her natural talent was 75% and the rest was the hardwork, riyaz.
She said she ate curd, chilli, pickle and that there was nothing as not to eat or fussy about keeping one's voice. But she was however disciplined in food of course. Her father used to advise that the voice should keep working well.
She also said that the spirit in music that was earlier is no longer the same. The 1940s-70s was a very good period in the singing sphere. Not many of us know that Lata Mangeshkar was once rejected because of her thin voice. Ayega ane wala was the song she quite symbolizes with those period.
Amongst Patriotic, her first song was Vande Mataram.Her song Ae mere watan ki logon... on 26th Jan 1963 which brought tears in the eyes of PM Jawaharlal Nehru brought tears in the eyes of Pt. Jawarharlal Nehru.
She never used to sing before her father but always before her mother. At the age of 4 or 5 yrs she said she heard a song, which a student of her father was singing she went on to correct the student and then her father heard and then he realized that he had a singer at home. And she started learning from her father.
Coming from a very conservative family. Her father had a drama company. At the age of 9 yrs old while in solapur in the drama company , there was a classical program going to be held in the theatre and on hearing that she requested her father, she would sing thambavati raag which he taught, and he agreed then she was allowed to sing first.
In an interview, she said that her First song recorded in 1942 March a Marathi film to which her father first denied her singing into films, but when his friend who composed the music insisted and then she sang but then in April her father Dinanath Mangeskar expired. Her life changed thereon, she started working, she was offered to act in movies at a very young age, she was paid Rs.300 having worked and sang in the film.
Eartler she started acting because she had to run the familly after her father's death. Playback career started ar the age of 15 or 16. In 1947 she started playback singing . Initially since she was too young she could hardly understand how things went she would go for recording and even without having any food. She had no knowledge about the canteen for food and tea. Her struggle marked she would walk down to the studio for recording.
Yet in another interview she says that Bombay Talkies has a special meaning to her. Her playback singing started in Bombay talkies.
She started her acting career but never liked it because she never liked the make-up and all. And she always wanted to sing. Though initially she was rejected because of her thin voice. Ayega ane wala her first breakthrough song of Mahal. She became too busy. As were the news around Lata Mangeshkar didn't allow other singers to sing but she herself very well has made it clear that she never blocked any other singer or singers from singing. However, the purity in her songs that she sang from the soul has always given a clear message to listeners and music lovers that she cannot do such a thing.
For music lover like us, what would be her fault if music composers and directors would choose songs that would suit only her voice.
She even said that she never sung for music director O P Nayyar because he thought her voice never suit his music.
So with around 25000 to 30,000 songs in her career time.She sang different type of songs with music composers like S D Burman, RD Burman to AR Rehman.
In the new generation composers she worked with A R Rehman and amongst singers she liked Singers Sonu Nigam and Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik and Sunidhi Chauhan who sings quite differently.
In this picture she says she is a fan of Sachin Tendulkar.
The reaction of Sachin Tendulkar is very obvious.
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