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Nightingale's 75th Spring

She's our eternal songbird. The finger of time isn't supposed to touch her. But it does. We visit some landmarks.

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Nightingale's 75th Spring
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The Lata We Didn't Know
  • Originally named Hema. The name she uses is derived from Latika, a character in her father's play Bhaan Bandhan.
  • Since starting as a child artiste in the Marathi film Pahili Manglagaur in 1942, she has sung in 22 languages.
  • Lata always sings barefeet; she treats her singing as a prayer. She writes out the song she is to sing in her own handwriting before she actually sings it.
  • She wears only white sarees but with different coloured borders—specific to each day. Solitaire diamonds are her only sartorial weakness.
  • She was rejected by filmmaker S. Mukherji for Shaheed as he felt that her voice was too 'thin'. The range of Lata's voice encompasses three octaves.
  • She has composed music under the pseudonym Anandghan.

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Yuddha
Pahili Manglagaur
Paa lagoo kar jori
Aap Ki Seva Mein
Andaaz
Badi Bahan
Barsaat
Bazaar
Dulari
Mahal
Lahore
Ek Thi Ladki
'Tum mujhe bhool na jao
Kambakht Ishq
Khallas
Buddha mil gaya
Hai hai yeh majboori
Aa jaane jaan
Mere hathon mein nau nau choodiyan hai
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