There is hardly anything new one can write about them which has not been written earlier many times elsewhere. It took me five years, and fortuitously when I decided to celebrate the current year as the Year of Naushad, to realise that I am yet to write an exclusive post on Lata Mangeshkar’s best songs by him (though I have written on songs of Mughal-e-Azam, and about a particular song Tere sadke balam). Having lived and breathed their songs, I had taken it for granted that I have already written on her best songs by Naushad, as I have done for several other composers namely, Chitragupta, C Ramchandra, Roshan, SD Burman and Anil Biswas. The Great Mughal of film music and the Empress of playback singing make an unparalleled combination. As for Lata Mangeshkar, I doubt if there is anyone who does not regard her as The Female Playback Singer, as a class by herself, far above her rivals. There are many who are as enamoured of Naushad as I am. Today is one such day when everyone is going to exclaim, ‘’I knew it!’ However, there is no way I can avoid it. 28 September 1929) with her songs for NaushadĪ blog would start losing its appeal if it became too predictable. Wishing Lata Mangeshkar a very happy 86th birth anniversary (b.
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