Essay on lata mangeshkar in hindi

Lata Mangeshkar :An Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. Lata Mangeshkar represents an entire era, a movement and a lasting phase in Indian music. Her voice has such great power that it has transcended all barriers of language, caste, creed, culture, boundaries, region and religion. To millions it is an amalgamation of melody, sweetness and harmony. Born on 28th September, 1929, she is the daughter of the well known Drama Troupe Owner in Marathi- Pandit Dina Nath Mangeshkar. She is the eldest among the four daughters and a son. Her mother Shevanti, hailed from Thalner, Maharashtra and was her father’s second wife. The family’s surname was originally Hardikar, but Deenanath changed it to ‘Mangeshkar’ to relate it with his native place Mangeshi in Goa. Lata’s childhood name was Hema. She was renamed after a character, Latika, from one of her father’s plays. The first fruits of Classical Music were tasted by Lata Mangeshkar under the auspicious training of her own father. But the sky fell down when in 1942 with the demise of Pandit Dina Nathji, the mantle of responsibilities naturally fell on to the shoulders of Lata who was barely thirteen. But destiny was not cruel altogether. Vinayak Damodar, the owner of Navyug Chitrapat Company looked after them. She sang the song “Nachu Yaa Gade” for a Marathi movie in 1 942, but the song was cut off in the final release of the film. Her first Hindi song was also for a Marathi movie in 1943. In 1945, she moved to Mumbai...

Many musicians have held sway over the collective Indian consciousness, but Lata Mangeshkar’s magic spanned six generations with a career that lasted seven decades. Was it her voice? Flawless diction? Classicism? Or emotion? These attributes describe some aspects of her music, but to codify her music in such easy descriptions would be to undervalue it. Often, the femininity factor has been invoked. Lata’s voice was that of the ‘ideal Indian woman’, said theorists. Nearly six years after her debut, Lata took the Hindi film industry by storm in 1949 with the film Barsaat . Did this happen in the absence of the other phenomenal singers of those times? Noor Jahan had moved to Pakistan, but Shamshad Begum, Amirbai Karnataki, Suraiya and Surinder Kaur were still singing. “What was special about Lata’s voice?” asks film music critic Ashok Kumar Tyagi in his essay on Lata Mangeshkar (2010), and goes on to say, “Let us ask what was special about the voice of Noorjehan, Shamshad, Geeta Dutt or Asha Bhosle. Now this is easy to answer. Every one of them had something very distinct that suited a particular genre. Someone had a deep-throated voice, a nasal twang or full voice, some had a vivacious voice... But Lata’s was pure music.” Indeed, various writers have noted how Lata’s ultra-feminine voice was considered to better suit the idea of womanhood being constructed in the years after Independence than the sensuous, deep or vivacious voices that preceded her. Yet, when you listen to t...

We should thank the Almighty for bringing people like Lata Mangeshkar into our country. She has entertained and inspired millions of people for many years. Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar is known as the 'Nightingale of India'. Lata was born on September 28, 1929 in Indore and has worked extensively in various spheres of Indian popular and light Classical Music. She has sung Ghazals, Bhajans, and Pop. In fact, she has sung over 50,000 songs for three generations of heroines, from Madhubala to Zeenat Aman to Kajol. Even became the most recorded artist in the world with the Guinness Book of Records. Originally, Deenanath's family had the surname Hardikar, but changed it to Mangeshkar in honor of his native Goa town Mangeshi. Her childhood name was Hema. She was renamed after a character in one of her father's plays, Latika. With the blessings of her own father, Lata Mangeshkar tasted the first fruits of Classical Music. The sky fell down when, in 1942, Pandit Dina Nathji passed away. Lata, who had just turned thirteen, was left with the mantle of responsibility. Nevertheless, fate was not entirely cruel. They were taken care of by Vinayak Damodar, the owner of Navyug Chitrapat Company. In 1942, she sang the song "Nachu Yaa Gade" for a Marathi movie, but the song was cut from the final release of the film. In 1943, she also recorded her first Hindi song for a Marathi film. Upon moving to Mumbai in 1945, she began to study Hindustani Classical Music with Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. F...