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Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by admin
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Lata Mangeshkar’s Favorite Songs

____________________ Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Lata picks her favorite songs from her long career Dil mera toda – Majboor (1948, Ghulam Haider) Chanda re ja re ja re – Ziddi (1948, Khemchand Prakash) Taqdeer jaga kar aai hoon – Dulari (1949, Naushad) Sajan ki galiyan chhod chale – Bazaar (1949, Shyam Sunder) ...

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Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by admin
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Lata Mangeshkar’s Top 10

____________________ Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Talat Mahmood (Singer) 1. Sapana Ban Saajan Aae – Shokhiyan (Jamal Sen) 2. Tum Na Jaane – Sazaa (S B Burmon) 3. Is Dil Ki Halat – Anhoni (Roshan) 4. Mukh Mod Na Dena – Aashiana (Madan Mohan) 5. Prit Ye Kaisi Bol Ri – Daag (Shankar) ...

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Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by admin
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Lata Mangeshkar – Fact File

____________________ Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar: born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, on 28 September 1929 (not 1928 as noted in the Guinness Book of World Records). Classical background acquired from singing and trainingwith her father, stage celebrity Dinanath Mangeshkar. Following the early death of Master Dinanath Mangeshkar, the eldest ...

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Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by admin
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Lata Mangeshkar – Profile

____________________ Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ The doyen of playback singing in Indian cinema, Lata Mangeshkar’s songs have captured the hearts and imagination of millions around the world. In a career spanning five decades she has sung thousands of songs in several languages. Her voice is a soprano over three-octave. Born in Indore, ...

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Saturday, August 7th, 2010 by admin
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Mohammad Rafi – Part 4

The non-controversial, low profile singer overrode professional ego at all times. Such was the supreme desire to sing. Such was the devotion to his art and his phenomenal talent. Modest and generous to a fault, Rafi Saab, neither flaunted nor promoted his family, A faithful husband, a doting father to four sons and three daughters, ...

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Saturday, August 7th, 2010 by admin
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Mohammad Rafi – Part 3

Besides mainline heroes there were a whole breed of smaller heroes who also benefited from Rafi’s vocals. Joy Mukherjee, Biswajeet, the young Jeetendra. Even in the era of superstars Rafi sang for Rajesh Khanna in his debut film Raaz and in the mega hit `Aradhana’ and for the Angry Young Man, Amitabh in Abhimaan. Music ...

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Saturday, August 7th, 2010 by admin
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Mohammad Rafi – Part 2

S.D. Burman was another composer who exploited the awesome versatility of The Virtuoso. Rafi Saab’s sweet soft vocals could create mood magic. S.D. Burman has him expressing disillusionment, with a fast changing, crass world in `Dekhi zamane ki yaari’ and then roaming free in the green valleys and open skies of freedom in ‘Khoya khoya ...

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Saturday, August 7th, 2010 by admin
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Mohammad Rafi – Part 1

When a 12 year old boy went searching for his inspiration in the Bhendi Bazar area of Mumbai, he was only doing what came naturally to millions of Indians who love Hindi film music. Admiring and worshipping Mohammed Rafi. That boy grew up to be Mahendra Kapoor, who still believes that he owes his life ...

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Sunday, August 1st, 2010 by admin
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Hemant Kumar – Part 4

There’s a strange contradiction discernible in Hemantda’s best selections. In tracks like Aye dil ab kahin haja (picturized on of all people – Shammi Kapoor in Bluff Master) and Jab jaag uthe armaan to kaise neend aaye Hemant Kumar is at once the poet peering into life’s abyss and the macho romantic riding over the ...

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Sunday, August 1st, 2010 by admin
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Hemant Kumar – Part 3

But it was as a singer that Hemant Kumar obtained an unique berth in the hall of fame. Like Anup Jaiota says, Hemantda’s voice conveyed both the depth of the ocean and the heights of the skies. It is a voice that communicates a profound romance. It is the voice of experienced articulation rather than ...

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