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...
On a clear day you can see him forever. Madan Mohan, the talent extraordinaire who never got his due during his lifetime, is today one of...
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 ...
She never stopped springing surprises on us till the very last. Lataji had an uncanny knack of re-inventing herself whether in the sphere of music where...
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 ...
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...
* “Jaag Utha Insan” (1984): Though it was “Himmatwala” that launched her into stardom in Bollywood, it was this unsuccessful nugget of a film produced by...
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...
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 ...
When in 1974 , Rajesh Roshan, the talented music composer and son of the great composer Rosham , turned a full-fledged composer he gravitated towards the...
The uproar over Shah Rukh Khan doing dua at Lataji’s funeral is so uncalled-for , so stupid and so crass it takes our collective breath away. Firstly,...
To millions of Indians like me the two words Lata and Mangeshkar signifes every thing beautiful harmonious and desirable in this universe. For 75 years she...
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...