Tumne piya diya piya sab kuch mujho apni preet dai ke(Uss Paar): Every fan of Lataji and Sachin Dev Burman knows Burman dada reserved his best compositions for...
“Give me a harmonium and my ‘Lota’, and I will give you an outstanding composition,” S D Burman had once famously declared. True to his word,...
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...
Dear Rolling Stones, Firstly, thank you for honouring our most precious and irreplaceable Goddess Of All Melodious Things among the 200 best singers of all times....
Lata Mangeshkar out-sang every co-singer on this planet .And the truth is, many of them while enjoying the challenge of being pitched against the finest voice...
What do awards mean to you at this stage of your life and career when you’ve seen every recognition possible? I am happy with what I...
Everyone wants to know the true story of a cinema legend. But who will bell the cat? Bio-pics on Kishore Kumar and Madhubala have been planned...
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...
Asha Bhosle at the first Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar award function in Mumbai on Sunday evening,proved Shakespeare wrong. There is plenty in a name, especially if the...
The Grammy is getting old. She is losing her teeth and probably her mind too. Why else would she fail to acknowledge the passing away of ...
My Father Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar: “My father was a huge influence in shaping me into the singer that I became. He taught me music. Do you know for a very...
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 ...
It seems as if Bappi Lahiri decided to join his Saraswati Mata up there where they can create some more divine music. Indeed Bappi’s tuning with...
Javed Akhtar told me about an incident that Pandit Jasraj narrated to him .In the 1950s Pandit Jasraj was in Amritsar when he went to meet the classical...
1. Barse ghan saari raat…sangg sow jao(Tarang): The immensely gifed composer Vanraj Bhatia created only one song for Lataji for Kumar Shahani’s experimental film Tarang…and what a song….a long narrative...
1. She is the undisputed God of all melodious of things. The Sing Sena Supremo. But whom does Lata Mangeshkar idolize as a singer? It’s Kundal Lal Saigal. She adored his voice...