She added, “I remember my childhood, each moment of happiness, sadness, victory, loss through your songs. Those long hours of practice trying to analyse the nuances, expressions, lilts in your singing made my musical bond with you more profound.” Ghoshal wrote that her mother would make her rewind the tape till she got it right. “‘Haye jiya roye’ was the …
The nation of more than a billion lost its most popular voice, as Lata Mangeshkar transcended to the heavenly stage on Sunday. From Madhubala to Kajol and Preity Zinta, female actors were considered to have arrived on the scene when they got an opportunity to lip-sync to Lata’s voice. Post-independence, when Dilip Kumar emerged as the Nehruvian hero, Lata’s voice …