Lata mangeshkar ke aakhiri shabd

Mumbai: She made our hearts go up an octave or more with love and longing, moved us to tears of joy and sorrow, sometimes introspect and other times dance in abandon, her voice mirroring our every emotion, her songs covering the cadence of time and history from the gramophone to the digital age. Mangeshkar, 92, who died on Sunday in a Mumbai hospital, sang not just in Hindi but in almost every other Indian language, that lilting voice emoting for actors down generations, from Madhubala to Preity Zinta and scores of others in between. Hers is the 'golden voice' that millions of South Asians tune into when they wake up and often the last thing they hear before calling it a day, the beating heart of a shared memory passed down generations. The monikers are many -- 'melody queen', 'India's nightingale', 'the voice of the millennium' and simply 'Lata didi' for many. The Indore-born Mangeshkar's first recorded song was in 1942 in the Marathi film "Kiti Hasaal" when she was just 13. In October last year, 79 years later, Vishal Bhardwaj released "Theek Nahi Lagta", a song with Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar that was believed to have been lost. "That long journey is with me and that little girl is still with me. She has not gone anywhere. Some people call me 'Saraswati' or say that I have her blessings. They say I am this and that..."It is their blessing that people like whatever I sing. Otherwise, who am I? I am nothing," Mangeshkar said in her last interview to PTI days a...

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नसरीन मुन्नी कबीर एक वृत्त-चित्र निर्माता और लेखिका हैं, उन्होंन॓ चैनल 4 टीवी (यू.के.) के लिए, विभिन्न वृत-चित्रों का निर्माण किया है, जिसमें, फॉलो दैट स्टार (अमिताभ बच्चन का पार्श्व चित्र 1989) में, ‘ मूवी महल और शाहरुख ख़ान की निजी और बाहरी ज़िंदगी’ (2005, चैनेल 4/रेड चि लीज) पर आधारित श्रृंखला है। उन्होंन॓ हिंदी सिनेमा के विषय पर काफ़ी किताबें भी लिखी हैं, जिसमें, गुरूदत्त-ए लाइफ इन सिनेमा, जावेद अख़्तर के साथ टॉकिग सिनेमा/टॉकिग सॉन्ग्स, और द इम्मोर्टल डॉयलॉग ऑफ मुगल-ए-आज़म हैं।

By Rasheed Kidwai: Jawaharlal Nehru had famously titled Lata Mangeshkar, the nightingale of India, but the one title she most wanted and which eluded her was Princess of Dungarpur, a princely state in Rajasthan. Her relationship with Raj Singh Dungarpur, the famous cricketer and manager of the Indian cricket team, was a well-known fact. Princess Rajyashree of Bikaner, who is Dungarpur's sister's daughter, writes in her autobiography, Palace of Clouds: A Memoir, (Bloomsburry India 2018,) that the two met through Dungarpur's friendship with Hridaynath Mangeshkar, the cricket-mad brother of Lata. The relationship was frowned upon by the Dungarpur royals and the other royal families that they had married into. Raj Singh Dungarpur was the third son of the Maharaja of Dungarpur. His three sisters had all married into royal families and it was expected that Raj Singh would do the same. According to Rajyashree, her mother Sushila, who was married to Dr Karni Singh, the last Maharaja of Bikaner and Lok Sabha Independent MP, and Sushila's sister the Maharani of Danta, a princely state in Gujarat, were very much opposed to the match. Rajyashree writes: "Lata Mangeshkar was invited to the old Bikaner House in Bombay and I strongly suspect (but cannot confirm) that she was asked to leave their brother alone so that he might make a suitable match." (page 293) The two were very much in love and such was their devotion to each other that both remained single and remained devoted to each o...

नाम : लता दिनानाथ मंगेशकर जन्म : 28 सितंबर, 1929 इन्दोर पिता : दिनानाथ मंगेशकर माता : शेवंती मंगेशकर लता मंगेशकर भारत की सबसे लोकप्रिय और आदरणीय गायिका हैं, जिनका छ: दशकों का कार्यकाल उपलब्धियों से भरा पड़ा है। हालाँकि लता जी ने लगभग तीस से ज्यादा भाषाओं में फ़िल्मी और गैर-फ़िल्मी गाने गाये हैं लेकिन उनकी पहचान भारतीय सिनेमा में एक पार्श्वगायक के रूप में रही है। अपनी बहन आशा भोंसले के साथ लता जी का फ़िल्मी गायन में सबसे बड़ा योगदान रहा है। लता की जादुई आवाज़ के भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप के साथ-साथ पूरी दुनिया में दीवाने हैं। टाईम पत्रिका ने उन्हें भारतीय पार्श्वगायन की अपरिहार्य और एकछत्र साम्राज्ञी स्वीकार किया है। आरंभिक जीवन : लता मंगेशकर का जन्म मराठी बोलने वाले गोमंतक मराठा परिवार में, मध्यप्रदेश के इंदौर में हुआ था। उनके पिता पंडित दीनानाथ मंगेशकर एक क्लासिकल गायक और थिएटर एक्टर थे। उनकी माता शेवंती (शुधामती) महाराष्ट्र के थालनेर से थी और वह दीनानाथ की दूसरी पत्नी थी। परिवार का उपनाम (सरनेम) हर्डीकर थे, लेकिन दीनानाथ ने इसे बदल्कार मंगेशकर रखा, ताकि उनका नाम उनके पारिवारिक गाँव मंगेशी, गोवा का प्रतिनिधित्व करे। जन्म के समय लता का नाम “हेमा” रखा गया था लेकिन बाद में उनका नाम बदलकर लता रखा गया था। लता अपने माता-पिता की पहली संतान है। इसके साथ ही मीना, आशा भोसले, उषा और हृदयनाथ उनके भाई-बहन है। मंगेशकर ने अपना पहला पाठ अपने पिता से सिखा था। पाँच साल की उम्र में लता जी ने अपने पिता के म्यूजिकल नाटक के लिये एक्ट्रेस का काम करना शुरू किया था (संगीत नाटक) । स्कूल के पहले दिन से ही उन्होंने बच्चो को गाने सिखाने शुरू कर दिये थे। जब शिक्षको ने उन्हें रोकने की कोशिश की तो वह बहुत गुस्स...

लता मंगेशकर, दुनिया के किसी भी गायक से ज़्यादा गाने वाली गायिका के रूप में प्रसिद्धि के शीर्ष पर, विराजमान होने के बावजूद, एक नितांत निजी इंसान हैं, जिन्होंने तड़क-भड़क और चकाचौंध से हमेशा ही दूरी बनाए रखी है। जावेद अख़्तर, लता मंगेशकर के बारे में 1983 में, एचएमवी ने टॉकीज के 50 वर्ष पूरे होने पर एक शानदार कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया, जिसमें बहुत से गायकों के साथ, नूरजहाँ ने भी मंच पर प्रस्तुति दी। मुझे हिन्दी फ़िल्म संगीत के इतिहास का सिंहावलोकन लिखने के लिए बोला गया था, जिसे शबाना ने मंच से व्याख्यायित किया। लता मंगेशकर का विवरण देते हुए मैंने लिखा, “अगर आप सारे जहाँ की सुवास (ख़ुशबू) लेंगे, सम्पूर्ण चाँद की ज्योत्सना; और विश्व का सम्पूर्ण मधु; और इन सबको एक साथ रखेंगे, तब भी उनके जैसी आवाज़ को नहीं रचा जा सकता है।” किसी भी कला के स्वरूप में, चाहे वो कविता हो, गायन हो या चित्रकारी, सबमें कुछ निश्चित घटक होते हैं: जन्मजात प्रतिभा, प्रखर शिल्प, जज़्बा और एक आकर्षण, जिसे परिभाषित नहीं किया जा सकता। लता मंगेशकर के पास स्पष्ट तौर पर एक प्रतिभासम्पन्न आवाज़ है। यह ऐसे ही, साफ़ और स्पष्ट है जैसे, मोती या स्फटिक। यह कितना परिपूर्ण है। उसके बाद आता है शिल्प यानी गायकी का अंदाज़। निश्चित तौर पर हर गायक को सुर में गाना चाहिए, तो फिर लता जी के बारे में क्या विशेष है? भोपाल के एक शास्त्रीय संगीतज्ञ ने मुझे इसकी बेहतरीन परिभाषा बतायी कि इनका ‘सुर’ आख़िर अलग क्यों है! इस विद्वान ने बताया कि अगर आप बाल या एक तार का एक रेशा भी ले लेंगे, तो इनमें जो सबसे महीन है, उसका भी एक केंद्र बिंदु होगा। लता जी, इस महीन रेशे के केंद्र बिंदु में गाती हैं, जिसे ‘सुर’ कहते हैं। जैसे एक कलाकार होने के नाते मेरा ...

S itting in the back of my parents’ Peugeot 504 as a child, we listened to songs by the likes of Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi and, of course, Lata Mangeshkar. We were too young to understand what they were about – love, loss, and romance – but we knew all the lyrics. Well, not quite all of them. During her Read more Written by Madan Mohan in 1964 for the movie Woh Kaun Thi?, this song was picturised (portrayed on screen) by the actor Sadhana. She smoulders in a sleeveless sari and pearls as she sings to her lover; he’s in a tweed jacket, moving between branches of trees, as she tells him this may be the last time they embrace in this lifetime. The black-and-white images are full of longing looks and eyeliner that would make Cleopatra envious. Throughout my life, I’ve heard it on vinyl, cassette, CD, and now I ask Alexa to stream it in my house. The best songs evolve as we do, and though the melody remains the same, the lyrics about embracing the one you love have taken on new meaning. It makes me think of my dad, my first love, my husband, and my sons. I play it to my children every night – so frequently that my eldest, who doesn’t understand Hindi or Urdu, looked up at me during a recent trip to buy parathas and said: “Mama, they’re playing our song!” Chalo Dildar Chalo When I asked my Twitter followers to flood my timeline with Mangeshkar’s songs in the wake of her death, the film Pakeezah was mentioned many times. Made in 1972, it tells the story of star-crossed lovers, one a ...

S itting in the back of my parents’ Peugeot 504 as a child, we listened to songs by the likes of Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi and, of course, Lata Mangeshkar. We were too young to understand what they were about – love, loss, and romance – but we knew all the lyrics. Well, not quite all of them. During her Read more Written by Madan Mohan in 1964 for the movie Woh Kaun Thi?, this song was picturised (portrayed on screen) by the actor Sadhana. She smoulders in a sleeveless sari and pearls as she sings to her lover; he’s in a tweed jacket, moving between branches of trees, as she tells him this may be the last time they embrace in this lifetime. The black-and-white images are full of longing looks and eyeliner that would make Cleopatra envious. Throughout my life, I’ve heard it on vinyl, cassette, CD, and now I ask Alexa to stream it in my house. The best songs evolve as we do, and though the melody remains the same, the lyrics about embracing the one you love have taken on new meaning. It makes me think of my dad, my first love, my husband, and my sons. I play it to my children every night – so frequently that my eldest, who doesn’t understand Hindi or Urdu, looked up at me during a recent trip to buy parathas and said: “Mama, they’re playing our song!” Chalo Dildar Chalo When I asked my Twitter followers to flood my timeline with Mangeshkar’s songs in the wake of her death, the film Pakeezah was mentioned many times. Made in 1972, it tells the story of star-crossed lovers, one a ...

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Mumbai: She made our hearts go up an octave or more with love and longing, moved us to tears of joy and sorrow, sometimes introspect and other times dance in abandon, her voice mirroring our every emotion, her songs covering the cadence of time and history from the gramophone to the digital age. Mangeshkar, 92, who died on Sunday in a Mumbai hospital, sang not just in Hindi but in almost every other Indian language, that lilting voice emoting for actors down generations, from Madhubala to Preity Zinta and scores of others in between. Hers is the 'golden voice' that millions of South Asians tune into when they wake up and often the last thing they hear before calling it a day, the beating heart of a shared memory passed down generations. The monikers are many -- 'melody queen', 'India's nightingale', 'the voice of the millennium' and simply 'Lata didi' for many. The Indore-born Mangeshkar's first recorded song was in 1942 in the Marathi film "Kiti Hasaal" when she was just 13. In October last year, 79 years later, Vishal Bhardwaj released "Theek Nahi Lagta", a song with Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar that was believed to have been lost. "That long journey is with me and that little girl is still with me. She has not gone anywhere. Some people call me 'Saraswati' or say that I have her blessings. They say I am this and that..."It is their blessing that people like whatever I sing. Otherwise, who am I? I am nothing," Mangeshkar said in her last interview to PTI days a...