Padma Shree awardee Suman Kalyanpur has had a blessed and cursed career. She had the good fortune of sounding similar to Lata Mangeshkar. But this blessing...
Lataji was not particularly fond of listening to her own songs, not even those that her fans consider classics. “Especially not those, because I’d find a...
K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam featured one of composer Naushad’s most accomplished music scores of all times. The indomitable Lata Mangeshkar toplined the soundtrack with imperishable songs like Beqas pe karam...
Civilization, including Lata Mangeshkar herself ,considers Aayega aanewala from the film Mahal to be a turningpoint in Lataji’s career. 1949 is regarded as Lata’s breakthrough year. She had chartbusters in the films Barsaat,Andaz,...
Playback singing in Hindi cinema can be divided into two neat halves: before and after Lata Mangeshkar . Before Lataji, the vinyl records carried the name...
India’s greatest national treasure Lata Mangeshkar has passed on into the ages. But she left a dream behind. And it is a matter of great pride...
Lalit Pandit, one-half the popular Jatin-Lalit duo, tells Subhash K Jha what it means to be Lata Mangeshkar and to have worked with her. “There never ...
Raksha Bandhan’s Playlist 1. Raakhi dhaago ka tyohar(Raakhi, Mohd Rafi): Most raksha bandhan songs are sung by female singers . This one is unique in that it is the male voice reminding us of ...
Many many evergreen melodies are attached to Rekha’s screen persona. The queen of all that she sur weighed , Rekha has the knack of owning every song that...
5 Bollywood Rain Songs Bollywood Rain Songs for every Lover Out there, Here is the Playlist.. Rimjhim gire saaawan R D Burman’s timeless rain ditty from Basu Chatterjee’s Manzil comes in...
“There’s no substitute to hard work. Mehnat ke ilava koi bhi shortcut nahin kaam aata(nothing succeeds except hard work),” says Asia’s most accomplished singer Lata Mangeshkar when I ask her to share her mantra for success....
This is possibly the first quarantine love duet in India. Tamil actor Dhanush and his very lovely Mumbai co-star Aditi Rao have just crooned a duet together...
Hasmukh(Netflix,10 Episodes) Starring Vir Das, Ranveer Shorey, Manoj Pawa, Suhail Nayyar, Ravi Kissan Directed by Nikhil Gonsalves Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half Stars) It’s like Lata Mangeshkar being hired to play a bad singer.It takes a very brilliant actor to play a ...
These films flopped when they were released. But they have great recall value. See them now and you’ll know why. Raj Kapoor’s Satyam Shivum Sunderam: The Indian film that...
Lata Mangeshkar: Yeh jeevan hai iss jeevan ka yehi hai rang-roop(Piya Ka Ghar), Koi lauta demere beete huey din(Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein) , Dukhi man mere sun mera kehna(Funtoosh) and many more.” Asha Bhosle: “Chingari koi bhadke(Amar Prem), Zindagi ek safar hai suhana(Andaz), Oh mere dil ke chayan(Mere Jeevan Saathi).” Varun Grover: “Apart from the hundreds of Kishore Kumar’s celebrated songs there are gems that don’t get that much love.Among these my...
Fanney Khan Starring Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Divya Dutta, Pihu sand,Girish Kulkarni Directed by Atul Manjrekar Rating: *** ½(3 and half stars) Tucked away somewhere in this father-daughter heartwarmer is a story about Baby Singh, a lonely exploited pop singer played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan whose manager(played...