Lata Mangeshkar

Legendary singer Mukesh's family will be celebrating the 100th birth anniversary at Mukesh Chowkin South Mumbai today (July 22). The family members have invited all well-wishers and fans of the late singer to attend the event. Speaking…

Sharda who passed away on June 14, had a highly unconventional singing voice. It didn’t quite fit the mould of the Bollywood playback singer, which is what made her an interesting ditty oddity.Sharda sang numerous hit songs in the 1960s at…

ষাট ও সত্তরের দশকে বলিউড মিউজিক ইন্ডাস্ট্রিতে রাজত্ব করেছেন লতা মঙ্গেশকর ও আশা ভোঁসলে। তবে সুরসম্রাজ্ঞী ও তাঁর বোনের পাশে যে গুটিকয়েক নারীকন্ঠ ইন্ডাস্ট্রি এবং শ্রোতাদের মনে জায়গা করে নিয়েছিল তার অন্যতম ছিলেন শারদা রাজন। হিন্দি সিনেপ্রেমীরা…

Feroz Abbas Khan has done to K Asif’s timeless classic Mughal-E-Azam what Asifcould have never imagined.Speaking exclusively on the overwhelming response to the musical stage adaptation of Mughal-E-Azam, Feroz Khansays, “From the start…

Lata Mangeshkar worked with several father-son music composers: SD Burman and then RD Burman, Chitragupta and his sons Anand-Milind, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and his son Rahul. But the one son whom she felt most protective about was Rajesh…

It's ironic that Anuradha Paudwal, who at one time during the 1990s, made a career out of doing cover versions of every Lata Mangeshkar song possible, is today miffed by remixes of her own song. There aren't too many of Anuradha's songs…

The three most frequently asked questions about the Hindi film industry are as follows. Did Lata Mangeshkar sing at home for guests? Does Amitabh Bachchan eat meals with his guests? And, does Aditya Chopra really exist?Having met the …

If Manna Dey had lived he would be 104. He lived a long and fruitful life. Embracing his art with a passion that belied populist considerations, Manna Dey belted out a spectrum of rangy tunes, from Phool gendva na maaro (Dooj Ka Chand) to…

Did you know that the outspoken, pretty-faced Moushumi Chatterjee, who turns 75 today, was the first choice for Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Guddi and Gulzar’s Koshish? But she has no regrets about losing out on these roles. Whatever was…

First impressions, they say are the everlasting impressions. When Moushumi Chatterjee, who turns 75 today, was first seen in Hindi cinema as a blind girl in Shakti Samanta’s Anurag, she was singing the sublime sonorous Sun ri pawan and Daka…