Everyone knows Lataji and her super-illustrious sister have come together for monumental numbers like Mann kyon behka(Utsav) and Jab jab tumhe bulaya(Jahan Aara).But it’s not well-known that the two legendary sisters have ...
Like so many myths and misrepresentations regarding the Goddess Of All Melodious Things, which were floating around while she was still here with us, the misinformation ...
I had decided to not write an obituary on the Goddess Of All Melodious Things. Obituaries are written for the dead. The Goddess cannot die. She...
As she recuperates slowly but surely from the attack by the greatest villain civilization has encountered since Gabbar Singh I recall my first encounter with Lata...
Javed Akhtar is among the millions who believe Lataji’s voice to the therapeutic. “When your morale is down or when your not feeling well, her songs...
Vishal Bhardwaj’s composition Theek nahin lagta which was recorded for a film in the 1990s that never got released, until January this year, triggered off a chain of memories ...
As the Goddess of all melodious things Lata Mangeshkar completed 80 years of singing on December 16, her most ardent bhakt Subhash K Jha caught up with her....
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...
For fans of Lata Mangeshkar there is exciting news. I have just found a song of hers that her diehard devotees would kill for. It is...
“Please Stop Hating One Another.”…. As Lata Mangeshkar Completes 92 She Feels A Wave Of Sorrow About What Is Happening In The Country Another year, another...
The Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar speaks for the first time about the rivalry with her sister. On a cloudy monsoon morning I bring up the ostensibly taboo...
Bet you didn’t know this. But Lata Mangeshkar who is legendary for her singing , is an outstanding photographer.In fact there were exhibitions of her photography when she...
“I was very closer to Pancham(R D Burman) than his father(Sachin dev Burman).When he married my sister(Asha Bhosle) he told me to write him a letter as...
Singer-composer-producer(his production house Geetanjali Arts produced Bees Saal Baad, Kohraa, Biwi Aur Makaan, Faraar, Rahgir and Khamoshi) Hemant Kumar Mukherjee was one of the most successful music composers and singers of Bangla and Hindi cinema. Not many care to remember his vast contribution in the...
“I just heard Vijay is no more,” Lataji sighs. “The world knew him as Raamlaxman. But that was not his real name. His actual name was neither Ram nor Laxman, but Vijay, Vijay Patil. He ...
Sing Sena Supremo Lata Mangeshkar hero-worshipped her father. But not many people know that she was equally attached to her mother, if not more. Recalls Lataji, “Aaee, as all us...