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  • Lata Mangeshkar

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     1'''Lata Mangeshkar (b. 1929)''' 
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     4Prolific megastar playback singer central to 
     5Hindi film music for the past four decades. 
     6Allegedly recorded over 25000 songs in 14 
     7Indian languages, although Nerurkar’s 
     8compilation (1989) lists a total of 5066 Hindi 
     9songs between 1946 and 1989, which should 
     10be the bulk of her output. Born in Indore, MP. 
     11Daughter of noted Sangeet Natak actor-singer, 
     12Dinanath Mangeshkar, started as a child actress 
     13in Master Vinayak films. Sang her first song in 
     14Vasant Joglekar’s Marathi film Kiti Hasaal 
     15(1942), but the song was dropped, making her 
     16real début with Joglekar’s Aap Ki Sewa Mein 
     17(1947). Came to prominence with Ghulam 
     18Haider’s score in Majboor (1948). Worked with 
     19all leading music directors, including Anil 
     20Biswas, Naushad, Shankar-Jaikishen and C. 
     21Ramchandra. Occasionaly composed for 
     22Marathi films, starting with Dinkar D. Patil’s 
     23Ram Ram Pahuna (1950) and then, under 
     24the pseudonym Anandaghan, only for Bhalji 
     25Pendharkar (Mohityanchi Manjula, 1963; 
     26Maratha Tituka Melavava, 1964; Sadhi 
     27Manse, 1965; Tambdi Mati, 1969). Turned 
     28producer with the Marathi films Vadal and 
     29Jhanjhar (both 1953), Kanchan (1955) and 
     30Lekin ... (1990). Since the 50s, possibly 
     31following Bhai Bhai (1956), she perfected her 
     32apparently effortless, high-pitched voice 
     33projection, usually in C sharp, a technique said 
     34to overcome the crude sound reproduction on 
     35rickety gramophones and in suburban and 
     36rural cinemas. Until the late 80s, recorded 
     37about 2 songs a day, featuring in almost every 
     38Hindi and most other language films. The 
     39major Khayal performer, Neela Bhagwat, 
     40commented that Mangeshkar’s performances 
     41regrettably became the norm for the Indian 
     42middle-class notion of feminine beauty in 
     43music. Kumar Shahani suggested that only 
     44she could have sung the difficult Ektaal-based 
     45song, Sangh so javo in his Tarang (1984). She 
     46appeared as actress in Pahili Mangalagaur 
     47(1942), Mazhe Bal and Chimukla Sansar 
     48(1943), Gajabhau (1944), Badi Maa (1945), 
     49Jeevan Yatra and Subhadra (both 1946), 
     50Mandir (1948) and Chhatrapati Shivaji 
     51(1952). 
     52 
     53[[Music]]