Legendary Lata Mangeshkar's entertainment

From popular and light classical music to film songs, from ghazals to bhajans and pop, she has sung all kinds of songs in her more-than-five decade-long career. And Lata has worked with almost all the top music composers and singers in the industry. She has sung more than 30,000 songs in over 20 Indian languages.


'I have sung thousands of songs and I feel there are many which are not good, but there are also many songs which are the best,' she said.


Asha Bhosle, her sister and popular singer, was quoted as saying: 'Have you ever seen a waterfall retrace its path? I have seen it... rather heard it in didi's voice. The tinkling notes of her taan tumble forth like a waterfall plunging down a cliff and then go back exactly the same way.'


Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan echoed her when he said: 'When the voice achieves perfect harmony with a note (sur), it is as if the soul has soared up to become one with the Supreme Being. That is how I feel when I listen to Lataji.'

After the 1962 Indo-China war, Lata sang 'Aye mere watan ke logon' that moved the then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to tears, and he said, 'Beti toone mujhe rula diya.'


Penned by Pradeep, 'Aye mere watan ke logon' till date continues to inspire Indians and is considered one of the most moving songs extolling patriotism.
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