: Lata Mangeshkar, Indias singing Goddess #IndiaNEWS #Cinema By Amit KhannaNew Delhi, Feb 8 | For nearly eight decades, Lata Mangeshkar defined Hindi film music. Diminutive, Indore-born Lata was literally

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By Amit KhannaNew Delhi, Feb 8 | For nearly eight decades, Lata Mangeshkar defined Hindi film music. Diminutive, Indore-born Lata was literally nurtured in music. Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar ran a theatre company and later did did music concerts. So, a two-year-old Lata would sit by her fathers side while he did his daily riyaaz.
By the time she was 5, she would warble abhangs and other songs from her fathers repertory of classical and traditional songs. Lata was the eldest of the 5 Mangeshkar siblings Asha, Meena, Usha and Hridaynath. Incidentally all would grow up and make a name for themselves.
Unfortunately, after some professional disasters, Dinanath died leaving the family destitute in 1942.
All the responsibility fell on 13-year-old Lata. She had appeared in bit roles till then but now she needed more work. Family friend Master Vinayak (father of actress Nanda) came forward to help. He helped the young Lata get her a break in friend Vasant Joglekars film Kittie Ha Saal in 1942. She started working in Master Vinayaks company Navyug Chitrapat.
In 1945, this company moved to Mumbai and the young Lata too followed. While the initial days were of tremendous struggle Lata started learning classical music under Ustad Aman Ali Khan of Bhindi Bazaar Gharana.
In 1946, she got her first Hindi film in Vasant Joglekars Aap ki Seva Mein (1945). She kept on doing an odd song or the other until Master Ghulam Haider (Better known as the composer of Kamal Amrohis Pakeezah) became her mentor and got her a job in Bombay Talkies and her first hit was in Majboor in 1948 where Gulam Haider gave the music.
Haider also got her to improve her Urdu diction.
In 1948, she got her big breakthrough in Ziddi. The breakthrough came in Bombay Talkies. Her fist big film was Ziddi starring Dev Anand and Kamini Kaushal with music by SD Burman (Kishore Kumar too got his break in this film) as a singer followed by Buzdil, both in 1948 and in 1949 the super hit Ayega Aanewala in Mahal.
This Kamal Amrohi film had music by Khemchand Prakash. Latas rise to the top thereafter was swift.
She soon became the default choice as the playback singer for most leading ladies and composers. Once Bade Ghulam Ali Khan said about her Kambakth kabhi sur nahin chhodti damn, she never drops a note.
From the fifties to the eighties, Lata delivered hundreds of hit songs under various composers.
She was the first choice of filmmakers like Mehboob Khan, V Shantaram, Bimal Roy, Raj Kapoor, the Anand brothers, Chetan, Dev and Vijay), Raj Khosla, Yash Chopra, Amiya Chakravarty, LV Prasad.
Let us not forget this was the golden age of Hindi film music with composers like Anil Biswas, Naushad, SD Burman, Khemchand Prakash, C Ramchandra.

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