Illness and Death
On 8th January, Mangeshkar tested
positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms and was admitted to Breach Candy
Hospital's ferocious care unit. She remained in the ICU with signs of
borderline enhancement in her health. The croakers treating her had taken her
off the ventilator on 28 January after her health bettered hardly, still she
was back on the ventilator on 5 February after Mangeshkar's health deteriorated
and was witnessing aggressive remedy.
Mangeshkar failed on 6th February
2022 at the age of 92 from multiple organ failure later contracting COVID-19
and witnessing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai,
India.
The Government of India blazoned a two- day
public mourning and that the National Flag will fly at half-mast from 6th
to 7th February throughout India in her respect. President Ram Nath
Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several
Union Ministers and Chief Ministers expressed their condolences. Numerous
members of the Indian Music Industry, Indian film assiduity, celebrities,
suckers and netizens expressed their condolences.
Prime
Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina and Pakistani Minister, Fawad Chaudhry
expressed their grief as paeans poured in from her suckers from Pakistan,
Bangladesh and each around the world.
May her soul rest in peace!
Achievements | List of Awards |
1959: Filmfare award
for Best Playback Singer (Madhumati)
1963: Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer (Bees Saal Bad)
1966: Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer (Khandan)
1966: Best Music Director for Sadhi Manas (Marathi) under the name ‘Anandghan’
1966: Best Playback Singer for Sadhi Mansa
1969: Padma Bhushan
1970: Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer( Jeene Ki raah)
1972: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for songs of the film
Parichay.
1974: She became the first Indian to perform at the Royal Albert Hall.
1974: Lata Mangeshkar holds the distinction of being the most recorded artist
in the history of Indian music in Guinness Record in 1974.
1974: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for songs of the film
Kora Kagaz
1977: Best Playback Singer for Jait Re Jait
1989: Lata Mangeshkar was bestowed with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in
1989.
1989: Padma Vibhushan
1990: Raja-Lakshmi Award by Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai
1990: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for songs of the film
Lekin.
1993: Lifetime Achievement Award
1994: Filmfare special award
1996: Star screen lifetime achievement award.
1996: Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
1997: Rajiv Gandhi Award
1997: Maharashtra Bhushan Award
1998: Lifetime Achievement Award by the South Indian Educational Society
1999: Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievements
1999: NTR National Award
2000: IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award
2001: Best Playback Singer of the Millennium (female) by Hero Honda and file
magazine Stardust
2001: She was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour.
2001: Maharashtra Ratna( First Recipient)
2002: Asha Bhosle Award (First Recipient)
2004: Living Legend Award by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
2004: Filmfare special award
2007: The government of France conferred on her its highest civilian award
(Officer of the Legion of Honour) in 2007.
2008: One Time Award for Lifetime Achievement
2009: ANR National Award
2019: The Indian government honored her with the Daughter of the Nation award
on her 90th birthday in September 2019.
The Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar began her illustrious singing career at the tender age of 13 in 1942 and has over 30,000 songs to her credit in several Indian languages.
Life of a Legend | Lata Mangeshkar
Lata
Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest son of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi
and Konkani musician, and his woman Shevanti in Indore (in present- day Madhya
Pradesh and also the capital of the princely state of Indore which was part of
the Central India Agency in British India). Her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar,
was a classical singer and theatre actor. Her ma, Shevanti ( subsequently
renamed Shudhamati), a Gujarati woman from Thalner, Bombay Presidency ( now in
northwest Maharashtra), was Deenanath's alternate woman; his first woman
Narmada, who had failed, was Shevanti's aged family.
Lata's
paternal father, Ganesh Bhatt Navathe Hardikar (Abhisheki), was a clerk who
performed the abhishekam of the Shiva lingam at the Mangueshi Temple in Goa,
and her paternal grandmother, Yesubai Rane, belonged to Goa and Lata's maternal
father was the Gujarati businessman Seth Haridas Ramdas Lad, a prosperous
businessman and landlord of Thalner; and Mangeshkar learnt Gujarati folk songs
analogous as garbas of Pavagadh from her maternal grandmother.
Deenanath
espoused the surname Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native
megacity of Mangeshi, Goa. Lata was named Hema at her birth. Her parents
subsequently renamed her Lata after a womanish character, Latika, in one of her
father's plays, BHABANDHAN.
Lata
was the eldest child of the family. Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath, in birth
order, are her siblings; all are fulfilled singers and musicians.
Lata
entered her first music assignment from her father. At the age of five, she
started to work as an actress in her father's musical plays (Sangeet Natak in
Marathi). On her first day of academe, she left academe because they would not
allow her to bring her family Asha with her, as she would constantly bring her
youthful family with her.
Lata Mangeshkar Journey of Career from
1940 to 2010
Lata Mangeshkar Career 1940s
Karnataki),
the proprietor of Navyug Chitrapat movie company and a close friend of the
Mangeshkar family, took care of them. He helped Lata get started in a career as
a songster and actress. Lata sang the song Naachu Yaa Gade, Khelu Saari Mani
Haus Bhaari, which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar's
Marathi movie Kiti Hasaal (1942), but the song was dropped from the final cut.
Vinayak gave her a small part in Navyug Chitrapat's Marathi movie Pahili
Mangalaa-gaur (1942), in which she sang Natali Chaitraachi Navalaai which was
composed by Dada Chandekar. Her first Hindi song was Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya
Badal De Tu for the Marathi film Gajaabhaau (1943).
Lata
moved to Mumbai in 1945 when Master Vinayak's company moved its headquarters
there. She started taking assignments in Hindustani classical music from Ustad
Aman Ali Khan of Bhindibazaar Gharana. She sang Paa Lagoon Kar Jori for Vasant
Joglekar's Hindi- language movie Aap Ki Seva Mein (1946), which was composed by
Datta Davjekar. The cotillion in the film was performed by Rohini Bhate who
latterly came a notorious classical cotillion. Lata and her family Asha played
minor places in Vinayak's first Hindi- language movie, Badi Maa (1945). In that
movie, Lata also sang a bhajan, Maata Tere Charnon Mein. She was introduced to
music director Vasant Desai during the recording of Vinayak's alternate Hindi-
language movie, Subhadra (1946).
After
Vinayak's death in 1948, music director Ghulam Haider guided her as a songster.
He introduced Lata to patron Sashadhar Mukherjee, who was working also on the
movie Shaheed (1948), but Mukherjee dismissed Lata's voice as too thin. An
irked Haider responded that in coming times directors and directors would fall
at Lata's bases and supplicate her to sing in their pictures. Haider gave Lata
her first major break with the song Dil Mera Toda, Mujhe Kahin Ka Na Chhora —
lyrics by Nazim Panipati — in the movie Majboor (1948), which came her first
big advance film megahit. In an interview on her 84th birthday, in September
2013, Lata herself declared, Ghulam Haider is truly my Godfather. He was the
first music director who showed complete faith in my gift. Originally, Lata is
said to have imitated the acclaimed songster Noor Jehan, but she latterly
developed her own style of singing. She brought a new hand style of singing to
Indian film music, moving down from mehfil- style performances to suit both'
ultramodern'and' traditional' womanish protagonists. A soprano range voice with
lower volume or breadth, she had enough weight in her voice to give definite
shape to the air of Indian film songs. Although she had limited colaratura
chops in her early career, she developed better tone and pitch as she
progressed in her playback career. Lyrics of songs in Hindi pictures are
primarily composed by Urdu muses and contain a advanced proportion of Urdu
words, including the dialogue. Actor Dilip Kumar formerly made a mildly
disapproving comment about Lata's Maharashtrian accentuation while singing
Hindi/ Urdu songs; so for a period of time, Lata took assignments in Urdu from
an Urdu schoolteacher named Shafi. In posterior interviews, Lata has said that
Noor Jehan had heard her as a child and had told her to exercise a lot. The two
stayed in touch with each other for numerous times to come.
One
of her first major successes was Aayega Aanewaala, a song in the movie Mahal
(1949), composed by music director Khemchand Prakash and lip-synced on screen
by actress Madhubala.
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 1950s
In
the 1950s, Lata sang songs composed by colorful music directors of the period,
including Anil Biswas (in flicks similar as Tarana (1951) and Heer (1956)),
Shankar Jaikishan, Naushad Ali,S.D. Burman, Sardul Singh Kwatra, Amarnath,
Husanlal, and Bhagatram (in flicks like Bari Behen (1949), Meena Bazaar (1950),
Aadhi Raat (1950), Chhoti Bhabi (1950), Afsana (1951), Aansoo (1953), and
Adl-e-Jehangir (1955)),C. Ramchandra, Hemant Kumar, Salil Chowdhury, Datta Naik,
Khayyam, Ravi, Sajjad Hussain, Roshan, Kalyanji-Anandji, Vasant Desai, Sudhir
Phadke, Hansraj Behl, Madan Mohan, and Usha Khanna. She sang Sri Lanka, Ma
Priyadara Jaya Bhumi, a song in Sinhala, for the 1955 Sri Lankan film Seda
Sulang. She made her debut in Tamil playback singing with Vanaradham in 1956
(Uran Khotala dubbed in Tamil) with the Tamil song Enthan Kannalan for Nimmi in
the dubbed interpretation composed by Naushad.
Lata
sang numerous raga- grounded songs for Naushad in pictures similar as Deedar
(1951), Baiju Bawra (1952), Amar (1954), Uran Khatola (1955) and Mother India
(1957). Ae Chorre Ki Jaat Badi Bewafa, a duet withG.M. Durrani, was her first
song for the musician Naushad. The brace, Shankar – Jaikishan, chose Lata for
Barsaat (1949), Yowl (1953), Shree 420 (1955) and Chori Chori (1956). Before
1957, musicianS.D. Burman chose Lata as the leading womanish songster for his
musical scores in Sazaa (1951), HouseNo. 44 (1955), and Devdas (1955). Still a
rift developed between Lata and Burman in 1957, and she didn't sing his
compositions again until 1962.
Lata
won a Filmfare Award for Stylish Womanish Playback Singer for Salil Chowdhury's
composition Aaja Re Pardesi from Madhumati (1958). Lata Mangeshkar's
association withC. Ramchandra produced songs in pictures similar as Albela
(1951), Shin Shinkai Bublaa Boo (1952), Anarkali (1953), Pehli Jhhalak (1954),
Azad (1955), Aasha (1957), and Amardeep (1958). For Madan Mohan, she performed
for flicks like Baagi (1953), Road Platform (1955), Pocketmaar (1956),Mr. Lambu
(1956), Dekh Kabira Roya (1957), Adalat (1958), Jailor (1958), Mohar (1959),
and Chacha Zindabad (1959).
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 1960s
Lata's
song Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya from Mughal-e-Azam (1960), composed by Naushad and
lip-synced by Madhubala, still remains notorious. The Hawaiian-themed number
Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh, from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960), was composed by
Shankar – Jaikishan and lip-synced by Meena Kumari.
In
1961, Lata recorded two popular bhajans, Allah Tero Naam and Prabhu Tero Naam,
for Burman's adjunct, Jaidev. In 1962, she was awarded her alternate Filmfare
Award for the song Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil from Bees Saal Baad, composed by
Hemant Kumar.
On
27 January 1963, against the background of the Sino-Indian War, Lata sang the
nationalistic song Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo (literally, Oh, People of My Country)
in the presence of Jawaharlal Nehru, also the Prime Minister of India. The
song, composed byC. Ramchandra and written by Kavi Pradeep, is said to have
brought the Prime Minister to gashes.
In
1963, Lata returned to unite withS.D. Burman. She had sung inR.D. Burman's
first film, Chhote Nawab (1961), and latterly in his flicks similar as Bhoot
Bungla (1965), Pati Patni (1966), Baharon ke Sapne (1967), and Abhilasha
(1969). She also recorded several popular songs forS.D. Burman, including Aaj
Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai, Gata Rahe Mera Dil (duet with Kishore Kumar) and
Piya Tose from Guide (1965), Hothon Pe Aisi Baat from Jewel Pincher (1967), and
Kitni Akeli Kitni Tanhaa from Talash.
During
the 1960s, Lata Mangeshkar continued her association with Madan Mohan, which
included the songs Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha from Anpadh (1962), Lag Jaa Gale and
Naina Barse Rim Jhim from Woh Kaun Thi? (1964), Woh Chup Rahen To from Jahan
Ara (1964), Tu Jahan Jahan Chalega from Mera Saaya (1966) and Teri Aankho Ke
Siva from Chirag (1969), and she had a continuing association with the maestros
Shankar Jaikishan, who got her to sing in colorful stripes in the 1960s.
The
1960s also witnessed the morning of Mangeshkar's association with Laxmikant –
Pyarelal, the music directors for whom she sang the most popular songs in her
career. Starting in 1963, Laxmikant – Pyarelal's association with Lata
Mangeshkar grew stronger over the times. Lata Mangeshkar sang over 700 songs
for the musician brace over a period of 35 times, numerous of which came huge
successes. She sang for Parasmani (1963),Mr. X in Bombay (1964), Aaye Din Bahar
Ke (1966), Milan (1967), Anita (1967), Shagird (1968), Mere Hamdam Mere Dost
(1968), Intaquam (1969), Do Raaste (1969) and Jeene Ki Raah, for which she got
her third Filmfare Award.
She
also sang several playback songs for Marathi flicks, composed by Marathi music
directors including Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Vasant Prabhu, Srinivas Khale,
Sudhir Phadke and herself, under the alias Anandghan. During the 1960s and
1970s, she also sang several Bengali songs composed by music directors like
Salil Chowdhury and Hemant Kumar.
Lata
made her Kannada debut in 1967 for the film Kranthiveera Sangolli Rayanna by
recording two songs for the music director Lakshman Berlekar. The song Bellane
Belagayithu was well entered and appreciated.
In the 1960s, Mangeshkar recorded duets with Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor and Mohammed Rafi. For a brief period during the 1960s, she wasn't on good terms with Mohammed Rafi over the issue of kingliness payments to vocalizers. Mangeshkar wanted Rafi to back her in demanding a half- share from the five percent song kingliness that the film's patron conceded to select melodists. But Rafi took a diametrically contrary view, and believed that a playback songster's claim on the filmmaker ended with the payment of the agreed figure for the song, leading to pressures between the two. After an argument during the recording of the song Tasveer Teri Dil Mein, from Maya (1961), the two refused to sing with each other. The music director Jaikishan latterly negotiated a conciliation between the two.
Lata Mangeshkar Career 1970s
In
1972, Meena Kumari's last film, Pakeezah, was released. It featured popular
songs including Chalte Chalte and Inhi Logon Ne, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, and
composed by Ghulam Mohammed. She recorded numerous popular songs forS.D.
Burman's last flicks, including Rangeela Re from Prem Pujari (1970), Khilte
Hain Gul Yahaan from Sharmeelee (1971), and Piya Bina from Abhimaan (1973) and
for Madan Mohan's last flicks, including Dastak (1970), Heer Raanjha (1970),
Dil Ki Rahen (1973), Hindustan Ki Kasam (1973), Hanste Zakhm (1973), Mausam
(1975) and Laila Majnu (1976).
Numerous
of Lata Mangeshkar's notable songs in the 1970s were composed by Laxmikant –
Pyarelal and Rahul Dev Burman. Numerous of her songs composed by
Laxmikant-Pyarelal in the 1970s were written by the lyrist Anand Bakshi. She
also recorded numerous hit songs with Rahul Dev Burman in the flicks Amar Prem
(1972), Caravan (1971), Kati Patang (1971), and Aandhi (1975). The two are
noted for their songs with the lyricists Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi, and
Gulzar.
In
1973, she won the National Film Award for Stylish Womanish Playback Singer for
the song Beeti Na Bitai from the film Parichay, composed byR.D. Burman, and
written by Gulzar. In 1974, she sang her only Malayalam song Kadali Chenkadali
for the film Nellu, composed by Salil Chowdhury, and written by Vayalar
Ramavarma. In 1975, she again won the National Award, this time for the song
Roothe Roothe Piya from the film Kora Kagaz, composed by Kalyanji Anandji.
From
the 1970s onwards, Lata Mangeshkar has also offered numerous musicales in India
and abroad, including several charity musicales. Her first musicale overseas
was at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1974 and was the first Indian to do
so. She also released an reader of Mirabai's bhajans, Chala Vaahi Des, composed
by her family Hridaynath Mangeshkar. Some of the bhajans in the reader include
Saanware Rang Ranchi and Ud Jaa Re Kaaga. In the early 1970s, she released
othernon-film compendiums, similar as her collection of Ghalib ghazals, an
reader of Marathi folk songs (Koli-geete), an reader of Ganesh aartis (all
composed by her family Hridaynath) and an reader of abhangs of Sant Tukaram
composed by Shrinivas Khale.
In
the 1978 Raj Kapoor- directed Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Lata Mangeshkar sang the
main theme song Satyam Shivam Sundaram, among the map- cappers of the time. The
film's story is inspired by Lata Mangeshkar was revealed by Kapoor's son Ritu
Nanda in her rearmost book. The book quotes Kapoor as saying, I visualised the
story of a man falling for a woman with an ordinary countenance but a golden
voice and wanted to cast Lata Mangeshkar in the part.
In
the late 1970s and early 1980s, she worked with the children of melodists she
had before worked with. Some of these melodists included Rahul Dev Burman, son
of Sachin Dev Burman, Rajesh Roshan, son of Roshan, Anu Malik, son of Sardar
Malik, and Anand – Milind, sons of Chitragupta. She also sang numerous songs in
the Assamese language and developed a veritably good relationship with the
Assamese musician Bhupen Hazarika. She sang numerous songs under his direction;
the song Dil Hoom Hoom Kare from Rudaali (1993) made the loftiest record deals
that time.
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 1980s
From
the 1980s onwards, Lata Mangeshkar worked with music directors similar as
Shiv-Hari in Silsila (1981), Faasle (1985), Vijay (1988), and Chandni (1989)
and Ram Laxman in Ustadi Ustad Se (1981), Bezubaan (1982), Woh Jo Hasina
(1983), Ye Kesa Farz (1985), and Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). She sang in other
pictures, similar as Karz (1980), Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), Silsila (1981), Prem
Rog (1982), Idol (1983), Pyar Jhukta Nahin (1985), Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985),
Nagina (1986), and Ram Lakhan (1989). Her song Zu Zu Zu Yashoda from Sanjog
(1985) was a chartbuster. In the late 1980s, Mangeshkar made a comeback to
Tamil flicks with two back-to- back renditions of musician Ilaiyaraaja's songs
Aaraaro Aaraaro and Valai Osai, for the flicks Anand (1987) and Sathya (1988),
independently.
In
the 1980s, the musician brace Laxmikant – Pyarelal had Lata sing their biggest
successes — Sheesha Ho Ya Dil Ho in Asha (1980), Tu Kitne Baras Ka in Karz (1980),
Kitna Aasan Hai in Dostana (1980), Hum Ko Bhi Gham in Aas Paas (1980), Mere
Naseeb Mein in Naseeb (1980), Zindagi Ki Na Toote in Kranti (1981), Solah Baras
Ki in Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), Ye Galiyan Ye Chaubara in Prem Rog (1982),
Likhnewale Ne Likh Dale in Arpan (1983), Din Maheene Saal in Avtaar (1983),
Pyar Karnewale and Nindiya Se Jagi in Hero (1983), Zu Zu Zu Yashoda in Sanjog
(1985), Zindagi Har Qadam in Meri Jung (1985), Baith Mere Paas in Yaadon Ki
Kasam (1985), Ungli Mein Anghoti in Ram Avtar (1988) and O Ramji Tere Lakhan Ne
in Ram Lakhan (1989).
Some
Rahul Dev Burman compositions for Lata in these times include Aaja Sar-e-Bazaar
in Alibaba Aur 40 Chor (1980), Bindiya Tarase in Phir Wohi Raat (1981), Thodi
Si Zameen in Sitara (1981), Kya Yahi Pyar Hai in Rocky (1981), Dekho Maine
Dekha in Love Story (1981), Tune O Rangeele in Kudrat (1981), Jaane Kaise Kab
in Shakti (1982), Jab Hum Jawan Honge in Betaab (1983), which came
incontinently popular, Humein Aur Jeene in Agar Tum Na Hote (1983), Tujhse Naraaz
Nahin in Masoom (1983), Kahin Na Ja and Jeevan Ke Din in Bade Dil Wala (1983),
Jaane Kya Baat in Sunny (1984), Bhuri Bhuri Aankhon in Arjun (1985), Sagar
Kinare in Sagar (1985), Din Pyar Ke Aayenge in Savere Wali Gaadi (1986). Kya
Bhala Hai Kya, Khamosh Sa Afsana and Seeli Hawa Chhoo in Libaas (1988). Rajesh
Roshan's collaboration with Dev Anand in Lootmaar and Man Pasand redounded in
songs similar as Paas Ho Tum Magar Qareeb and Sumansudha Rajni Chandha
independently. Lata had duets with Rafi similar as Mujhe Chhoo Rahi Hain in
Swayamwar (1980), Kabhi Kabhi Bezubaan in Johny I Love You (1982), Tujh Sang
Preet in Kaamchor (1982), Angrezi Mein Khete Hai in Khud-Daar (1982), Ankhiyo
Hi Ankhiyo Mein in Nishaan (1983), Dushman Na Kare in Aakhir Kyon? (1985) and
Wada Na Tod in Dil Tujhko Diya (1987), latterly featured in the soundtrack of
the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Pristine Mind.
Bappi
Lahiri composed some songs for Lata, similar as Dooriyan Sab Mita Do in Saboot
(1980), Baithe Baithe Aaj Aayi in Patita (1980), Jaane Kyun Mujhe in Agreement
(1980), Thoda Resham Lagta Hai in Jyoti (1981), Dard Ki Ragini in Pyaas (1982),
and Naino Mein Sapna (duet with Kishore Kumar) in Himmatwala (1983).
Mohammed
Zahur Khayyam continued to work with Lata Mangeshkar during the 80s and
composed songs similar as Hazaar Rahein Slush (duet with Kishore Kumar) in
Thodisi Bewafai (1980), Simti Huyi from Chambal Ki Kasam (1980), Na Jane Kya
Hua in Dard (1981), Chandni Raat Mein in Dil-e-Nadaan (1982), Dikhayi Diye in
Bazaar (1982), Chand Ke Paas in Dil-e-Nadaan (1982), Bhar Lein Tumhe and Aaja
Nindiya Aaja from Lorie (1984) and Kiran Kiran Mein Shokhiyan in Ek Naya Rishta
(1988).
During
the 80s, Lata sang successes similar as Sun Sahiba Sun in Ram Teri Ganga Maili
(1985) for Ravindra Jain, Chand Apna Safar in Shama (1981), Shayad Meri Shaadi
and Zindagi Pyar Ka in Souten (1983), Hum Bhool Gaye Re in Souten Ki Beti
(1989) for Usha Khanna. Hridaynath Mangeshkar had Kale Kale Gehre Saye in
Chakra (1981), Ye Ankhen Dekh Kar, and Kuchh Log Mohabbat Ko in Dhanwan (1981),
Mujhe Tum Yaad Karna in Mashaal (1984), Assamese song Jonakore Rati (1986) with
music and lyrics byDr. Bhupen Hazarika, Jaane Do Mujhe in Shahenshah (1989) for
Amar-Utpal, Sajan Mera Us Paar in Ganga Jamuna Saraswati (1988) and Mere Pyar
Ki Umar in Waaris (1989) for Uttam Jagdish.
In
June 1985, the United Way of Greater Toronto invited Lata Mangeshkar to perform
at Maple Leaf Auditoriums. At the request of Anne Murray, Lata sang her song
You Demanded Me 12,000 attended the musicale, which raised $ 150,000 for the
charity.
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 1990s
During
the 1990s, she recorded with music directors including Anand – Milind,
Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin – Lalit, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Uttam Singh, Anu Malik,
Aadesh Shrivastava andA.R. Rahman. She recorded somenon-film songs, including
ghazals with Jagjit Singh. She has also sung with Kumar Sanu, Amit Kumar,S.P.
Balasubrahmanyam, Udit Narayan, Hariharan, Suresh Wadkar, Mohammed Aziz,
Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Roop Kumar Rathod, Vinod Rathod, Gurdas Maan and Sonu
Nigam.
In
1990, Mangeshkar launched her own product house for Hindi pictures which
produced the Gulzar- directed movie Lekin. She won her third National Film
Award for Stylish Womanish Playback Singer for her rendition of the song Yaara
Sili Sili from the film, which was composed by her family Hridaynath.
Mangeshkar
has sung for nearly all the Yash Chopra flicks and flicks from his product
house Yash Raj Flicks at that time, including Chandni (1989), Lamhe (1991),
Darr (1993), Yeh Dillagi (1994), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To
Pagal Hai (1997) and latterly in Mohabbatein (2000), Mujhse Dosti Karoge!
(2002) and Veer-Zaara (2004).
During
1990, Mangeshkar records with Raamlaxman in Patthar Ke Phool (1991), 100 Days
(1991), Mehboob Mere Mehboob (1992), Saatwan Aasman (1992), I Love You (1992),
Dil Ki Baazi (1993), Antim Nyay (1993), The Melody of Love (1993), The Law
(1994), Hum Aapke Hain Koun.! (1994), Megha (1996), Lav Kush (1997), Manchala
(1999), and Dulhan Banoo Main Teri (1999).
A.R.
Rahman recorded a many songs with Mangeshkar during this period, including Jiya
Jale in DilSe., Khamoshiyan Gungunane Lagin in One 2 Ka 4, Ek Tu Hi Bharosa in
Pukar, Pyaara Sa Gaon in Zubeidaa, So Gaye Hain in Zubeidaa, Lukka Chuppi in
Rang De Basanti, O Paalanhaare in Lagaan and Laadli in Raunaq. She made an on-
screen appearance in the film Pukar singing Ek Tu Hi Bharosa.
In
1994, Lata Mangeshkar released Shraddanjali – My Homage to the Immortals. The
special point of the reader is that Lata offers her paeans to immortal
vocalizers of the time by rendering a many of their songs in her own voice.
There are songs ofK.L. Saigal, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Hemant Kumar,
Mukesh, Punkaj Mallick, Geeta Dutt, Zohrabai, Amirbai, Parul Ghosh and Kanan
Devi.
Mangeshkar
sang both Rahul Dev Burman's first and last songs. In 1994, she sang Kuch Na
Kaho for Rahul Dev Burman in 1942 A Love Story.
In
1999, Lata Eau de Parfum, a incense brand named after her, was launched. She
was also awarded Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement the same time. In
1999, Mangeshkar was nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha. Still, she didn't
attend Rajya Sabha sessions regularly, inviting review from several members of
the House, including the Deputy Chairperson Najma Heptullah, Pranab Mukherjee
and Shabana Azmi. She stated the reason for her absence as ill- health; it was
also reported that she hadn't taken a payment, allowance or a house in Delhi
for being a Member of Parliament.
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 2000s
In
2001, Lata Mangeshkar was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's loftiest mercenary
honour.
In
the same time, she established the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in
Pune, managed by the Lata Mangeshkar Medical Foundation ( innovated by the
Mangeshkar family in October 1989). In 2005, she designed a jewellery
collection called Swaranjali, which was drafted by Adora, an Indian diamond import
company. Five pieces from the collection raised£ at a Christie's transaction,
and a part of the plutocrat was bestowed for the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
relief. Also in 2001, she recorded her first Hindi song with the musician
Ilaiyaraaja, for the film Lajja; she had before recorded Tamil and Telugu songs
composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
Lata
Mangeshkar's song Wada Na Tod was included in the film Eternal Sunshine of the
Pristine Mind (2004) and in its soundtrack.
On
21 June 2007, she released the reader Saadgi, featuring eight ghazal-suchlike
songs written by Javed Akhtar and composed by Mayuresh Pai.
Lata
Mangeshkar Career 2010s
On
12 April 2011, Mangeshkar released the reader Sarhadein Music Beyond
Boundaries, which contains the duet Tera Milna Bahut Acha Lage by Mangeshkar
and Mehdi Hassan ( written by Pakistan's Farhad Shahzad). The reader features
Usha Mangeshkar, Suresh Wadkar, Hariharan, Sonu Nigam, Rekha Bhardwaj and
another Pakistani songster, Ghulam Ali, with compositions by Mayuresh Pai and
others.
After
14 times, Mangeshkar recorded a song for musician Nadeem-Shravan; Kaise Piya Se
for Bewafaa (2005). After Kitne Ajeeb Rishte Hain Yahan Par for Page 3 (2005)
and Daata Sun Le for Jail (2009), Shamir Tandon formerly again recorded a song
with Mangeshkar; Tere Hasne Sai Mujheko for the film Satrangee Parachute
(2011). After a hiatus, Mangeshkar came back to playback singing and recorded
at her own plant the song Jeena kya hai, jaana maine for Du n no Y2. Life Is a
Moment (2015), the effect to Kapil Sharma's queer love story Du n noY. Na Jaane
Kyun.
On
28 November 2012, Mangeshkar launched her own music marker, LM Music, with an
reader of bhajans, Swami Samarth Maha Mantra, composed by Mayuresh Pai. She
sang with her youngish family Usha on the reader. In 2014, she recorded a
Bengali reader, Shurodhwani, including poetry by Salil Chowdhury, also composed
by Pai. On 30 March 2019, Mangeshkar released the song Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti
Ki, composed by Mayuresh Pai, as a homage to the Indian army and nation.
Lata Mangeshkar
Career in Bengali Film Industry
Mangeshkar
has sung 185 songs in Bengali, making her debut in 1956 with the megahit song
Prem Ekbari Esechilo Nirobe, composed by Hemant Kumar. The same time, she
recorded Rongila Banshite, composed by Bhupen Hazarika, which was also a
megahit. In the late 1950s, she recorded a string of successes similar as Jaare
Ude Jare Pakhi, Na Jeona, and Ogo Aar Kichu To Noy, all composed by Salil
Chowdhury, and which were independently acclimated into Hindi as Ja Re Ud Ja Re
Panchi and Tasveer Tere Dil Mein in Maya, and O Sajna in Parakh. In 1960, she
recorded Akash Pradip Jole. Latterly in the 1960s, she sang successes like
Ekbar Biday De Ma Ghure Ashi, Saat Bhai Champa, Ke Pratham Kache Esechi, Nijhum
Sandhyay, Chanchal Mon Anmona, Asharh Srabon, Bolchi Tomar Kaney, and Aaj Mon
Cheyeche by melodists like Sudhin Dasgupta, Hemant Kumar, and Chowdhury.
Lata Mangeshkar
Career as Music director
Lata
Mangeshkar composed music for the first time in 1955 for the Marathi movie Ram
Ram Pavhane. Latterly in the 1960s, she composed music for following Marathi
pictures under the alias of Anand Ghan.
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1960- Ram Ram Pavhana
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1963-Maratha Tituka Melvava
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1963-Mohityanchi Manjula
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1965-Sadhi Manase
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1969-Tambadi Mati
She
won Maharashtra State Government's Stylish Music Director Award for the film
Sadhi Manase. The song Airanichya Deva Tula from the same film entered stylish
song award.
Lata Mangeshkar
Career as Film Producer
Lata
Mangeshkar has produced four flicks
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1953-Vaadal (Marathi)
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1953-Jhaanjhar (Hindi),co-produced withC. Ramchandra
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1955-Kanchan Ganga (Hindi)
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1990-Lekin. (Hindi)
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