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Name Lata
Mangeshkar
Date of Birth 28th September, 1929
Birth Place Indor [M.P.] (Marathi Speaking
Family in Sikh Mohalla)
Father’s Name Pandit
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Classical
Singer and Theater Actor
Mother’s Name Smt. Shudhhamati
Sisters (Three) 1. Asha Bhosle
2. Usha
Mangeshkar
3. Meena
Mangeshkar
Brother (One) Hridayanath
Mangeshkar
First Hindi Song Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De
Learn Hindustani Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
Bhendibazaarwale
Classical Music
Favorite
Playback Singers K.L.Saigal and Noorjehan
Favorite
Music Directors Madan Mohan, Salil
Chowdhary and Jaidev
Food Like
Kolhapuri Mutton and Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce
Best Colour
White
Jewellery
Diamonds & her Golden Payals
Hobbies
Photography and Cooking
She is one of
the Best-known Playback
Singers
in the
Hindi Film Industry.
Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half
decades. She sang in over 980
Bollywood
movies and has sung songs in over twenty
regional Indian
languages, but primarily in
Hindi.
Lata is the second vocalist ever to have received the
Bharat Ratna. Mangeshkar was
featured in the
Guinness Book of
World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most
recordings in the world. The claim was that she has recorded no less than
25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between
1948 to 1974 (30,000 songs between 1948 and 1987, according to 1987
edition).
Lata moved to
Mumbai in
1945. Lata also sang a bhajan (religious song). Following the
partition of India
in 1947, Ustad Amanat Ali Khan Bhendibazaarwale migrated to newly formed
Pakistan,
so Lata started to learn classical music under Amanat Khan Devaswale. Pandit
Tulsidas Sharma, a pupil of Ustad
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan,
also trained her. “Aayega Aanewaala,” a song in the popular movie Mahal proved a turning point for her. In the 1950s, Lata sang songs
composed by various acclaimed music directors of the period. Lata sang many
raga-based
songs for
Naushad in
movies.
On June 27, 1963,
against the backdrop of the
Sino-Indian War,
Lata sang the patriotic song Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon in the presence
of
Jawaharlal Nehru,
then the
Prime Minister of
India. The song, composed by
C. Ramchandra
and written by
Pradeep,
is said to have brought the Prime Minister to tears.
In 1973, she won the
National Film Award
for Best Female Playback Singer for the song Beeti Na Bitai
from the film
Parichay.
In 1975, she again won the same award, this time for the song Roothe
Roothe Piya from the film
Kora Kagaz.
Her first concert overseas was at the
Royal Albert Hall,
London, in
1974. In 1990, Mangeshkar launched her own production house for
Hindi
movies. Its first (and only movie), Lekin. However, she won her third
National Film Award
for
Best Female Playback
Singer for her song Yaara Sili Sili from the film. In
1999, she was nominated as a member of
Rajya Sabha.
In 2001, Lata Mangeshkar was awarded
Bharat Ratna,
India's highest civilian honor. In the same year, she established the Master
Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune,
managed by the Lata Mangeshkar Medical Foundation.
Lata Mangeshkar has produced four films
(1) Vaadal (Marathi), (2) Jhaanjhar (Hindi), (3) Kanchan (Hindi) (4) Lekin
(Hindi). Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honors, including
Padma Bhushan,
Padma Vibhushan,
Dada Saheb Phalke
Award,
NTR National Award,
Bharat Ratna,
three
National Film Awards,
and 12
Bengal Film
Journalists' Association Awards. She has also won four
Filmfare Best Female
Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving
up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh
talent. She was later awarded
Filmfare Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 1974,
The Guinness Book of
Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artist in the
history, stating that she had reportedly recorded "not less than 25,000
solo, duet and chorus backed songs in 20 Indian languages" between 1948 and
1974. |
