Lata Mangeshkar (
pronunciation (help·info)) (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian singer, and occasional music-composer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.[1][2] Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She is the elder sister of singers Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.[3]
pronunciation (help·info)) (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian singer, and occasional music-composer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.[1][2] Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She is the elder sister of singers Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.[3]
Lata Mangeshkar was born in a Marathi-speaking Gomantak Maratha[4] family, in the princely state of Indore, part of the Central India Agency (now part of Madhya Pradesh). Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar was a classical singer and theater actor. Her mother Shevanti (Shudhamati) who was from Thalner, Maharashtra,
was Deenanath's second wife. The family's last name used to be
Hardikar; Deenanath changed it to Mangeshkar in order to identify his
family with his native town, Mangeshi in Goa.
Lata was named "Hema" at her birth. Her parents later renamed her Lata
after a female character, Latika, in one of her father's plays, BhaawBandhan.[5] Lata is the eldest child of her parents. Meena, Asha, Usha and Hridaynath are her siblings in sequence.
Mangeshkar took her first lessons from her father. At the age of
five, she started to work as an actress in her father's musical plays (Sangeet Natak in Marathi).
On the first day in the school, she started teaching songs to other
children. When the teacher stopped her, she was so angry that she
stopped going to the school.[5] Other sources cite that she left school because they would not allow her to bring Asha with her, as
arly career in the 1940s
In 1942, when Mangeshkar was 13, her father died of heart disease. Master Vinayak
(Vinayak Damodar Karnataki), the owner of Navyug Chitrapat movie
company and a close friend of the Mangeshkar family, took care of them.
He helped Lata get started in a career as a singer and actress.
Mangeshkar sang the song "Naachu Yaa Gade", Khelu Saari Mani Haus
Bhaari" which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar's
Marathi movie Kiti Hasaal (1942), but the song was dropped from the final cut. Vinayak gave her a small role in Navyug Chitrapat's Marathi movie Pahili Mangalaa-gaur (1942), in which she sang "Natali Chaitraachi Navalaai" which was composed by Dada Chandekar.[5] Her first Hindi song was "Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De Tu" for the Marathi film, Gajaabhaau (1943).
Mangeshkar moved to Mumbai in 1945 when Master Vinayak's company moved its headquarters there. She started taking lessons in Hindustani classical music from Ustad Amanat Ali Khan . She sang “Paa Lagoon Kar Jori” for Vasant Joglekar's Hindi-language movie Aap Ki Seva Mein (1946),[5]
which was composed by Datta Davjekar. The dance in the film was
performed by Rohini Bhate who later became a famous classical dancer.
Mangeshkar and her sister Asha played minor roles in Vinayak's first
Hindi-language movie, Badi Maa (1945). In that movie, Lata also sang a bhajan, “Maata Tere Charnon Mein.” She was introduced to music director Vasant Desai during the recording of Vinayak's second Hindi-language movie, Subhadra (1946).
Following the partition of India in 1947, Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
migrated to newly formed Pakistan, so Mangeshkar started to learn
classical music under Amanat Khan Devaswale. Pandit Tulsidas Sharma, a
pupil of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, also trained her.
After Vinayak's death in 1948, music director Ghulam Haider mentored her as a singer. Haider introduced Mangeshkar to producer Sashadhar Mukherjee, who was working then on the movie Shaheed (1948), but Mukherjee dismissed Mangeshkar's voice as "too thin."[5]
An annoyed Haider responded that in the coming years the producers and
the directors would "fall at Lata's feet" and "beg her" to sing in their
movies. Haider gave Lata her first major break with the song “Dil Mera
Toda,” from the movie Majboor (1948).[5]Initially, Mangeshkar is said to have imitated the acclaimed singer Noor Jehan, but later she developed her own style of singing.[5] Lyrics of songs in Hindi movies are primarily composed by Urdu poets and contain a higher proportion of Urdu words, including the dialogue. Actor Dilip Kumar
once made a mildly disapproving remark about Mangeshkar's Maharashtrian
accent while singing Hindi/Urdu songs; so for a period of time, Lata
took lessons in Urdu from an Urdu teacher named Shafi.[6]
One of her first major hits was “Aayega Aanewaala,” a song in the movie Mahal (1949), which was composed by music director Khemchand Prakash and lip-synced on screen by actress Madhubala.[7]
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