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Let’s Clear The 2 Biggest Misconceptions About The Goddess Of All Melodious Things
She practised a Mangeshkar Monopoly…she wouldn’t let her sister sing….She was moody and she cancelled song recordings… So many misconceptions about the immortal Lata Mangeshkar have been allowed to fester because she never bothered to correct them. It’s time to set the record straight for the sake of posterity.
- That she discouraged new talent . Why didn’t anyone ever ask the new talent if the Goddess discouraged them? Suman Kalyanpur for example, whose career is said to have suffered because she sounded somewhat like Lataji. has always maintained the highest regard for Lataji. Anuradha Paudwal, another alleged victim of the mythic Mangeshkar monopoly, used to be a disciple of Lataji’s illustrious brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar, got her first chartbuster Tu mera janu hai tu mera dilbar hai in Subhash Ghai’s Hero on Lataji’s recommendation. Sulakshana Pandit wanted to sing all her own songs on screen. But composers like Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Kalyanji-Anandji insisted on Lataji’s vocals. When Runa Laila came to India to sing for Kalyanji-Anandji , Lataji personally congratulated her. We once spoke about the mythic Mangeshkar monopoly. “Why Lata?” Lataji wondered. “Only the composers can answer that.Once a very big singer asked Madan Mohan Bhaiyya this question and he answered, ‘Jab tak Lata hai aur koi nahin.’ I never stopped any composer from using anyone’s voice. On the contrary on many occasions I’d suggest other voices for songs that came to me. I remember this one incident vividly where actor-producer the great Om Prakash wanted me to sing a song for one of his productions. As I was not free I suggested another singer’s name . Some days later when I met Omprakashji I asked him how the recording went. He was quiet and then he answered, ‘Gana theek gaya lekin gayika ne aapke liye bahot bura-bhala kaha(the song went well but the singer badmouthed you).’ I laughed and told Om Prakashji not to feel bad. I am used to this . Neki kari aur kuwey mein dalo(do good and let it drown).” Personally I have heard Lataji heap praises on many singers that came after her including Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy , Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Ghosal.
- That She Was A Hindrance In Her Sister Asha Bhosle’s career: This myth is so laughable it makes me cry. Here is the truth about the so-called rivalry: Lataji actually cleared the decks for her talented and versatile singers so that all the fast-paced westernized songs went to Ashaji. Lataji would actually tell composers that the cabaret or dance numbers were not suited to her throat—which was not true, if you’ve heard her sing Aa jaan-e-jaan for Helen and Iss qadar aap humko jo tadpayenge for Bindu you’d know what I mean—only so that those breathy sexy numbers went to her sister. If Lataji had not agreed to make space for her sister, Ashaji’s career would have never taken off. The so-called rivalry was fuelled not by sense of mutual hostility but by well-wishers who poisoned Ashaji’s mind against her mother-like sister.Speaking sadly on this subject Lataji had once said to me, “How can we be rivals? Why would I stop her career? She is my own sister! We had our differences. I had warned her against marrying too early and I was proven right. But as far as our professional rivalry is concerned it never existed. I could never do what Asha could do. Some troublemakers had convinced her that I snatched away Ae mere watan ke logon from her.This was not the case.”
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Aamir Khan’s Sister Plays Shah Rukh’s Mother In Pathaan

Ever since Pathaan released on Wednesday, audiences have been curious to know who is the woman who plays Shah Rukh Khan’s adoptive mother in Afghanistan. The stately lady with royal looks is none other than the late producer Tahir Hussain’s daughter and Aamir Khan’s elder sister Nikhat Khan.
Nikhat has been closely associated with the film industry and has helped her father in the production of his films like Dulha Bikta Hai and Tum Mere Ho.
Nikhat has acted earlier in the Akshay Kumar starrer Mission Mangal , Ajay Devgan’s Tanhaji and in Sandh Ki Aankh(as a Maharani).
For Pathaan, it was Shah Rukh Khan who suggested Nikhat Khan should play his foster-mother in Afghanistan who names him ‘Pathaan’. It proved to be an inspired piece of casting, as audience have loved Nikhat Khan’s cameo.
It is heartwarming that all three Khan superstars are associated with Pathaan in one way or the other.
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Anurag Kashyap’s New Film Is About Love Jihad

Love Jihad, whatever that means, is the theme of Anurag Kashyap’s new film Almost Pyaar With D J Mohabbat.
Debutant Karan Mehta plays a Muslim boy in an intense relationship with Alaya F who plays a Hindu girl.Kashyap has spared the audience none of the ugliness that such a relationship generates among social-media bouncers, the self-styled guardian of morality .
In the hardhitting powerful and pertinent film a bigot is heard commenting snidely, “These people first talk about Mohabbat. Then they talk about Mohammed.”
Happily and surprisingly, the Central Board Of Film Certification gave the film a ‘UA’ certificate with no cuts: a rare non-‘A’ film of Kashyap.
So far Kashyap and his team have kept the Love Jihad part of the plot out of all media interaction.
But the cat is now out of the bag.
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu to Star Alongside Varun Dhawan in Prime Video’s Indian Original Series , Samantha Speaks

Samantha Ruth Prabhu will be starring alongside Varun Dhawan in the Indian installment of the Citadel universe, the global-event series from Prime Video and the Russo Brothers’ AGBO. The untitled Citadel series based out of India is being helmed by renowned creator duo Raj & DK (Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK), who are the showrunners and directors.
The local installment is written by Sita R. Menon, along with Raj & DK. The streaming service also confirmed that the production is currently underway in Mumbai. After this, the unit will head to North India and then onwards to international locales like Serbia and South Africa.
Richard Madden (Bodyguard) and Priyanka Chopra Jonas will star in the first-to-launch series within the Citadel universe, which comes from the Russo Brothers’ AGBO along with David Weil (Hunters) and is set to premiere in 2023. Alongside Madden and Chopra Jonas, the first-to-launch Citadel series will also feature Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games saga). Additional local-language Citadel productions are also in the works, including an Italian Original series starring Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing).
Speaking on her participation in The Citadel franchise for the first time,Samantha says, “When Prime Video and Raj & DK approached me with this project, I decided to take it up in a heartbeat! After working with this team on The Family Man, it is homecoming for me.The Citadel universe, the interconnected storylines between the productions across the globe, and most importantly, the script of the Indian installment really excited me.”
Samantha says she is looking forward to working with Varun Dhawan . “I am thrilled to be a part of this brilliant universe conceptualised by the Russo Brothers. I am also looking forward to be working with Varun for the first time, on this project. He is someone who is full of life and cheer when you’re around him.”
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Bollywood’s Achche Din Have Come

All you doomsday prophets, the booms-day profits are here. Pathaan has opened the floodgates again for Bollywood’s bumper bonanza at the boxoffice.And now there is only the achche din ahead for Hindi cinema.
In the next two months there are three sureshot blockbusters coming up, beginning with Shehzada. An astute devilishly impish adaptation of Allu Arjun’s 2020 Telugu blockbuster Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo.The super-popular Kartik Aaryan gives his own spin to the character. This performance will take Kartik to the next level of stardom. Kartik’s version of Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo is radically different from its Telugu version. Shehzada takes the core idea of the Telugu original and turns it into a something completely different. Kartik’s co-star in Shehzada is Kriti Sanon with whom he earlier shared superhit space in Lukka Chuppi.
Then there is Luv Ranjan’s ravishing rom-com Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar. The director’s male viewpoint on the chaos of love relationships crests to a comic high in his latest. Ranjan for the first time, collaborates with Ranbir Kapoor for the first time collaborates with Shraddha Kapoor who badly needs a hit.This film should do the trick. The winsome lead pair tries to do one another in a game of Luv This is Luv Ranjan’s Hum…Aapke Hain Con. Ranjan has in the past used the romcom space to entertain his audience to the hilt, he says this time the stakes are different. It is not something we’ve seen before.
Finally it is Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. Karan Johar’s first directorial in six years(not counting the one segment each in Ghost Stories and Lust Stories). This time he has assembled a dream star-cast of Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Ranveer Singh and the boxoffice darling(s) Alia Bhatt. But trust me, this one is not about assembling stars into a complacent plot. The writing in this zany Romeo & Juliet is so crisp and engrossing, the experience is likely to be the visual version of a multi-flavour icrecream cone. Colour, choler and karma collide in this tragic-comic love story . Let the box office dhamaka begin from the house of Dharma.
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